Furious Jill Biden is 'attacking' Democrats who want to oust 81-year-old Biden from 2024 nomination after debate fiasco

first lady Jill Biden He is said to be “attacking” Democrats who want to impeach the president Joe Biden of the 2024 Democratic nomination after last week's debate.

While the president has said he has no plans to step aside, he is known to talk to a wide range of people, but he only listens to the opinions of a very narrow circle, including his wife.

And Jill is said to have taken a dark view of those who wanted to kick her husband off the ticket, as she is claimed to be the driving force behind his insistence on staying in the race. The claim was made by ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz moments after Biden's interview with the network Friday night.

The “inner circle” of voices that includes a select circle of advisers, including his son, Hunter, are telling Biden, 81, that he can win and should continue his re-election bid.

Last weekend, the Bidens slipped away for a post-debate discussion and a pre-planned photo shoot with celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz at Camp David.

It was from the presidential log cabins that Jill made a phone call to Vogue magazine, providing a last-minute update on her cover interview, scheduled for Monday.

'[We] he won't let those 90 minutes define the four years [Joe’s] been president We'll keep fighting,” Jill, 73, insisted to Vogue.

“The one person who has the most influence with him is the first lady,” a source said earlier this week. “If she decides there should be a change of course, there will be a change of course.

“Those who make the decisions are two people: they are the president and his wife,” the source added. “Anyone who doesn't understand how deeply personal and family-friendly this decision will be doesn't know the situation.”

Biden's top aides have also told his staff to stay strong in meetings, issuing the mission statement: “We will weather the storm, just as we always have,” according to a senior administration official.

The president made his own attempt to recover his candidacy for re-election in a recorded interview that lasted only 22 minutes in which Biden he insisted that his terrible polls weren't real and that the Democratic Party wasn't worried about his fitness to lead.

Biden said the only way he's out of the race is “if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me.”

Friday night's interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos was supposed to act as damage control, but it's only gotten more infuriating. democrat politicians and big donors who, since that calamitous Trump debate, have pressured the president to side.

Biden blamed “exhaustion” and being “sick” for his poor debate performance, which has upended his entire re-election campaign.

But there is a movement afoot in the party to persuade him to step aside, with critics warning he faces almost certain defeat and could drag other Democrats down with him.

House Democrats and a group of senators are expected to meet on the issue when they return to Washington next week.

A handful of Democrats have publicly called on Biden to drop out of the race, while there is a move in the Senate, led by Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, for Democrats in the upper chamber to push as well.

Warner, a well-respected moderate Democrat, is inviting Democratic senators to a meeting on Monday to discuss the Biden campaign, a source told Reuters.

The Washington Post reported that Warner was looking to ask the group to pressure Biden out of the race.

Biden told reporters he had spoken to at least 20 lawmakers and they were telling him to stay. Asked about Warner's call for him to leave, Biden said, “Well, Mark Warner, as far as I can tell, is the only one who's considering it.”

Biden has remained resistant to those efforts, he said in a fiery speech in Madison Friday before: “I stay in the race.”

Some opinion polls have shown Trump increasing his lead since the debate, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that one in three Democrats want Biden to drop out of the race.

Biden rejected the move on Friday.

“We had a little debate last week. I can't say it was my best performance. But there's been a lot of speculation since then. “What's Joe going to do? Will he stay in the race? Will it be abandoned? Biden said. “Well, here's my answer: I'm running and I'm going to win again.”

But in the same post, he added that he was ready to beat Trump “again in 2020.”

And then, when Stephanopoulos asked the 81-year-old, “Did you ever watch the debate afterwards?” Biden indicated he wasn't sure.

“I don't think I did, no,” the president replied.

The Clinton staffer turned ABC News anchor pressed Biden on whether he knew he was bombing in real time.

In the short clip, he also appears to have said he had received more medical attention than press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre initially told the press.

In fact, the documents with me. I asked if they did a covid test because they are trying to figure out what was going on. They gave me a test to see if I had an infection, you know, a virus. I didn't do it. I just had a really bad cold,” Biden said.

Biden spoke to Stephanopoulos in a voice that resembled the faint scratch of his debate after questioning whether he had even seen him again, saying “I don't know why” he had such a bad performance.

He insisted he was no more frail and “still in good shape”. He said he is under “continuous evaluation” by his personal doctors and they “don't hesitate to tell me” if something isn't working.

During the interview, Biden said that he undergoes “continuous evaluation” by his personal doctors and that they “don't hesitate to tell me” if something is wrong.

'Can I run the 100 in 10 flat? No, but I'm still in good shape,” Biden said.