Jill Biden has recently admitted in an interview tied to her new memoir that she was “frightened” watching her husband Joe Biden’s June 2024 presidential debate performance and believed he might be having a stroke.
“I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” Jill Biden told the interviewer. She added: “As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
President Trump questioned why she did not rush onto the stage to assist her husband during that moment in his May 29 statement. Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race approximately one month after the debate and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, leaving 107 days until the general election. He became the first sitting president to exit a campaign since Lyndon B. Johnson stepped aside in March 1968.
Reports have indicated that Biden’s shaky delivery and confusion during the debate fueled widespread concerns about his fitness for office. President Trump has suggested his own debate performance triggered Biden’s decline, claiming he knows the answer. The admission coincides with months of Democratic officials and their allies insisting voters were misinterpreting what they witnessed on television.