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Jill Biden says she thought husband was having a stroke during 2024 debate The former US first lady told CBS News that she was frightened by Joe Biden's performance against Donald Trump.

Jill Biden Worried Her Husband Was Drugged on Debate Night Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 7:49 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A s she watched President Biden stumble through the most cringeworthy portion of his disastrous June 2024 debate, First Lady Jill Biden wondered if her husband had unknowingly ingested drugs or was having a medical episode on live television. “ Is he short-circuiting? ” Jill Biden thought. “ Is this a stroke? I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged? ” Her mind then wandered to a more personal anxiety, considering how his nonsensical word salads—one of which ended with “we finally beat Medicare”—might implicate her as the person best positioned to know if the man who appeared to disassemble onstage was privately prone to incoherence. “ Oh God—will people watching assume this is how he is all the time? ” she writes in her new memoir, View From the East Wing , a copy of which The Atlantic obtained ahead of its June 2 release date. Part of Jill Biden’s goal for writing a book about her four years as first lady, it seems, is to dispe…

Jill Biden feared Joe Biden was having a stroke during disastrous Trump debate 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 re-election campaign, the former first lady said in a recent interview. “I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” Jill Biden told CBS News in an interview scheduled to air on Sunday. Joe Biden’s shaky, mumbling and sometimes confused delivery against Donald Trump in June 2024 gave...

Jill Biden tells MS NOW that her husband would have beaten Trump if he stayed in 2024 race Former first ladyJill Bidentold MS NOW on Tuesday that she believes her husband, former President Joe Biden, would have won the 2024 election had he not dropped out of the race. “I believe he would have beat Donald Trump in that election,” Jill Biden said during an interview with MS NOW’s “Morning Joe.” The former first lady and longtime educator joined the show to discuss her memoir, “View from the East Wing,” which was published on Tuesday. The book includes the revelation that, contrary to what she said at the time, Jill Biden was frightened by her husband’s disastrous performance during a presidential debate with Trump in 2024, writing that she had been concerned he washaving a stroke. “I was scared to death to see that,” Jill Biden told MS NOW on Tuesday, adding, “Let’s face it, Joe knew that this was not a good performance.” However, she said, doctors checked him out right after he got offstage. “We went on to do three more events that night, and Joe was like he always was. … To this day, it’s just inexplicable,” she continued. Joe Biden was running for a second term against Trum…

Jill Biden worried husband Joe was ‘having a stroke’ during 2024 US debate The former US first lady said she had never seen former President Joe Biden act the way he did on the 2024 debate stage.

Jill Biden says she thought Joe Biden was having a stroke during 2024 debate <p>In CBS interview set to air Sunday, former first lady says she was ‘frightened’ during husband’s debate with Trump</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jill-biden">Jill Biden</a> said she had been “frightened” as she watched <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/joebiden">Joe Biden</a>’s faltering performance during his 2024 presidential debate, and thought her husband might have suffered a stroke.</p><p>“I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” the former first lady <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jill-biden-interview-joe-biden-debate-frightened-stroke/">said</a> in an interview with CBS set to air on Sunday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/jill-biden-joe-biden-stroke-trump-debate">Continue reading...</a>

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Jill Biden opens up about backing former President Joe Biden’s presidential reelection bid in 2024 despite a disastrous debate performance in which she thought he might have had a medical emergency. NBC News

Jill Biden says Joe was checked out by doctors immediately after doomed debate during which she was 'scared to death' he had suffered a stroke Jill Biden says Joe was checked out by doctors immediately after doomed debate during which she was 'scared to death' he had suffered a stroke By ALEX HAMMER, US MEDIA CORRESPONDENT Updated: 21:45 03 Jun 2026 Share or comment on this article: 0 shares Comments Comments SPECIAL OFFER: Sign up to our weekly US politics newsletter HERE and get three FREE months of DailyMail+ Jill Biden has revealed how members of her husband's campaign were so concerned by his behavior during his infamous 2024 debate against President Donald Trump that they had doctors examine him once he arrived off-stage. The former first lady made the revelation following some light pressing from Jonathan Lemire on Tuesday's Morning Joe. ADVERTISEMENT Lemire had just reminded her about a recent statement she gave to CBS last week: that she suspected her husband was having a 'stroke ' during the hard-to-watch performance. 'If you thought that then, that something, a medical episode had happened, did you recommend that he go to a doctor then?' Lemire thought to ask. 'Well, we…

Jill Biden says she was "frightened" by Joe Biden's 2024 debate performance, thought he was having a stroke - CBS News Former first lady Jill Biden said she was "frightened" by her husband Joe Biden's 2024 debate performance and thought he was having a stroke. "I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never," Jill Biden told CBS News Sunday Morning's Rita Braver in an interview airing Sunday on CBS. "I don't know what happened," she said. "As I watched it, I thought, 'Oh, my God, he's having a stroke.' And it scared me to death." Biden was running for a second term when he stumbled through the June 2024 presidential debate against Donald Trump, prompting widespread calls for him to drop out of the race. He dropped out a month later, with 107 days to go until the general election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. He became the first sitting president to pull out of a presidential race since President Lyndon B. Johnson stepped aside in March of 1968. In a wide-ranging interview, Jill Biden talked about the election, her husband, her new book, " View from the East Wing: A Memoir ," and more. Watch more of Jill Bid…

‘Jilly, I had no choice’: Jill Biden recalls pressure Joe Biden faced to drop out of 2024 race <p>Former first lady speaks about Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race at event for her new memoir</p><p>Jill Biden recalled the immense pressure that Joe Biden faced in the aftermath of his disastrous 2024 debate performance, saying he told her “Jilly, I had no choice,” following his decision to drop out of the presidential race.</p><p>The former first lady made the comments during a Tuesday book event coinciding with the release of her new memoir, View from the East Wing. The event was held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and moderated by comedian and co-host of The View, Whoopi Goldberg. Former president Biden was in attendance at the event and received two standing ovations from the crowd.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/joe-jill-biden-memoir">Continue reading...</a>

Jill Biden says she thought husband was 'having a stroke' during 2024 debate The former US first lady told CBS News that she was frightened by Joe Biden's performance against Donald Trump.

Doctors checked Biden just after Trump debate as Jill Biden feared he had a stroke The Biden administration previously said doctors examined the president "days" following the debate, not in the moments after. The former first lady revealed more details in her new book.