Jill Biden says she thought Joe Biden was having a stroke during 2024 debate
In CBS interview set to air Sunday, former first lady says she was ‘frightened’ during husband’s debate with Trump
Jill Biden said she had been “frightened” as she watched Joe Biden’s faltering performance during his 2024 presidential debate, and thought her husband might have suffered a stroke.
“I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” the former first lady said in an interview with CBS set to air on Sunday.
“As I watched it, I thought: ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke,’” she said. “And it scared me to death.”
Biden’s poor debate performance against Donald Trump in June 2024 sparked widespread alarm among Democrats, prompting calls for his withdrawal from the race.
Under immense pressure, Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice-president, Kamala Harris, leaving her just 107 days to campaign before the November 2024 general election against Trump.
Throughout the 90-minute showdown in Atlanta, a raspy Biden, then 81 years old, repeatedly stumbled over his words, took long pauses and mumbled inaudibly and occasionally incoherently.
At one point, his rambling response prompted Trump to quip: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
Biden memorably tried to land a blow on Trump’s policies on tax cuts and the national debt, but tangled the line and instead declared: “We finally beat Medicare.” His team later clarified that he had meant to say his administration had “beat big pharma”, but the misspeak crystalized longstanding concerns about the mental acuity and physical condition of the US’s oldest president.
Biden also veered away from a question on reproductive rights, shifting instead to references about women killed by immigrants – a pivot into one of his weaker areas and a point frequently emphasized in Republican talking points.
Jill Biden has remained a stalwart supporter of her husband throughout his decades-long political career. In a rally shortly after the June 2024 debate, Jill Biden praised her husband’s performance, saying: “Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts.”
The former first lady will soon publish a memoir, titled View from the East Wing, about her experience in the White House. In it, she is expected to share her account of her husband’s fraught re-election campaign and his monumental – and historic –decision to withdraw.
Think about it: “I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. That speaks volumes.
107 days is hard to ignore, no matter which side you are on.
So the bottom line is “I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Wonder how this will land.
107 days. The real figures are likely much higher.
The detail about “I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since is something people should sit with.
The fact that jill Biden said she had been “frightened” as she watched Joe Biden’s faltering performance during his 2024 presidential debate, and thought her husband might have suffered a stroke really puts things into perspective.
Think about it: under immense pressure, Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice-president, Kamala Harris, leaving her just 107 days to campaign before the November 2024 general election against Trump. That speaks volumes.
What stands out is biden’s poor debate performance against Donald Trump in June 2024 sparked widespread alarm among Democrats, prompting calls for his withdrawal from the race. That is the part worth paying attention to.
Basically under immense pressure, Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice-president, Kamala Harris, leaving her just 107 days to campaign before the November 2024 general election against Trump. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
On one hand jill Biden said she had been “frightened” as she watched Joe Biden’s faltering performance during his 2024 presidential debate, and thought her husband might have suffered a stroke. But at the same time “I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since.
If “I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
Trump Jill has been pushing this agenda for a while now.
Think about it: “As I watched it, I thought: ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke,’” she said. That speaks volumes.
On one hand “As I watched it, I thought: ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke,’” she said. But at the same time biden’s poor debate performance against Donald Trump in June 2024 sparked widespread alarm among Democrats, prompting calls for his withdrawal from the race.
So the bottom line is biden’s poor debate performance against Donald Trump in June 2024 sparked widespread alarm among Democrats, prompting calls for his withdrawal from the race. Wonder how this will land.