Jill Biden feared her husband was having a stroke as she watched then-US President Joe Biden stumble through a disastrous debate performance that led to the end of his 2024 reelection campaign, the former first lady said in a recent interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,\u201d Jill Biden told CBS News in an interview scheduled to air Sunday.<\/p>\n
Joe Biden’s shaky, mumbling and sometimes confused delivery against Donald Trump in June 2024 gave fuel to questions voters already had about his fitness for a second term. <\/p>\n
His attempts to explain away his performance and offer reassurance that he could handle four more years of the demanding job did little to assuage voters. <\/p>\n
Under mounting pressure from within his party, he stepped aside, and Democrats nominated Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened,\u201d Jill Biden said in the interview. \u201cAs I watched it, I thought, \u2018Oh, my God, he\u2019s having a stroke’. And it scared me to death.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former first lady is promoting a book due out next week, View from the East Wing: A Memoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jill Biden feared her husband was having a stroke as she watched then-US President Joe Biden stumble through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,2444,43,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":["post-448755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-joe-biden","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}