Jill Biden: Other candidates might be better on healthcare, but 'we have to beat Trump'

Jill Biden, EdD, told voters Aug. 19 that her husband, presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden, is the most electable Democrat, even if he isn't the best on the issues, NBC News' Amanda Golden first reported.  

"Your candidate might be better on, I don't know, healthcare, than Joe is, but you've got to look at who's going to win this election. … Your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump," Dr. Biden said at a campaign event, according to NBC.

The remarks were "extraordinarily blunt," according to The New York Times, and it is unusual to be "so explicit in acknowledging that others in the field might have more appealing plans on leading issues," The Washington Post reports.

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