Her sentiment echoes a message of Biden’s presidential campaign — that he is best positioned to beat President Trump — but typically candidates and their surrogates are not so explicit in acknowledging that others in the field might have more appealing plans on leading issues.

Most polls have shown that the former vice president fares better than others in the crowded Democratic field in hypothetical general election matchups against Trump.

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“I know that not all of you are committed to my husband, and I respect that,” Jill Biden said during her Nashua event. “But I want you to think about your candidate, his or her electability, and who’s going to win this race.”

“So I think if your goal — I know my goal — is to beat Donald Trump, we have to have someone who can beat him,” she continued.

Trump’s campaign on Tuesday seized on coverage of Jill Biden’s remarks.

Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, shared on Twitter a video of her comments and wrote: “Translation: @JoeBiden is a bad candidate and not really good at this whole running for President thing. But you all be good sheep, listen to your party elders who know better than you and fall in line behind Joe.”

Biden’s campaign is also making an electability argument in its first television ad in Iowa, which debuted Tuesday.