President Biden knew immediately after stepping off the stage in Atlanta on Thursday night that the debate had gone wrong.
In those first stricken moments after a raspy, rambling and at times incoherent performance, he turned to his wife, Jill Biden.
“I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence,” Mr. Trump said when Mr. Biden blundered an answer on immigration.
They acknowledge her unique influence and power in his life, but they say Mr. Biden is in control of his own campaign.
But as long as Mr. Biden wants to run, advisers say, she will support him.
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