{"id":82461,"date":"2026-05-28T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/jill-biden-says-she-thought-joe-biden-was-having-a-stroke-during-2024-debate-heres-what-she-said-at-the-time\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:40:09","slug":"jill-biden-says-she-thought-joe-biden-was-having-a-stroke-during-2024-debate-heres-what-she-said-at-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/jill-biden-says-she-thought-joe-biden-was-having-a-stroke-during-2024-debate-heres-what-she-said-at-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden says she thought Joe Biden was &#8220;having a stroke&#8221; during 2024 debate. Here&#8217;s what she said at the time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>Former first lady Jill Biden said she thought her husband was &#8220;<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jill-biden-interview-joe-biden-debate-frightened-stroke\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">having a stroke<\/a><\/span>&#8221; during then-President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous performance in the 2024 debate that preceded his departure from the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,&#8221; she said in an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jill-biden-says-joe-biden-was-slowing-down-but-wasnt-in-cognitive-decline-as-he-ran-for-reelection\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">interview for CBS News &#8220;Sunday Morning,&#8221;<\/a><\/span> which airing Sunday, May 31.<\/p>\n<p>The former first lady said her husband&#8217;s performance in the debate &#8220;scared me to death.&#8221; But her comments at the time did not reflect what she now says were her concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/first-presidential-debate-2024-trump-biden\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">faced off<\/a><\/span> on June 27, 2024, in what was expected to be their first debate in the lead up to November&#8217;s election. But the debate brought questions over Biden&#8217;s ability to stay in the race \u2014 and calls for him to step aside \u2014 to a fever pitch, and ultimately contributed to his decision to abandon his bid for a second term.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the pair appeared on the debate stage in Atlanta, Biden alarmed Democrats as he, with a raspy voice, stumbled through many of his answers, often lost his train of thought and struggled to communicate his positions. The president, who was 81 at the time, had a busy travel schedule in the lead up to the debate, and his campaign chalked up his performance to a cold.<\/p>\n<p>During one infamous answer during the debate, Biden struggled to form a coherent response to a question about tax rates and the national debt, before concluding &#8220;Look, if we finally beat Medicare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/clip\/public-affairs-event\/user-clip-jill-biden-celebrates-that-joe-biden-answered-every-question-before-after-party-speech\/5122188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking to supporters<\/a> after the debate, Jill Biden said, &#8220;Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question, you knew all the facts,&#8221; and she joined the crowd in chanting &#8220;four more years.&#8221; The couple then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/public-affairs-event\/president-biden-and-first-lady-jill-biden-at-post-debate-waffle-house-stop\/644135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made a stop at a Waffle House<\/a>, where the then-president said &#8220;I think we did well&#8221; and said he had a sore throat.<\/p>\n<p>In the days following the debate, the Biden family gathered at Camp David, where a source told CBS News at the time that they encouraged him to stay in the race and keep fighting. When a Vogue Magazine cover story on the first lady came out days later, an editor&#8217;s note <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/first-lady-jill-biden-august-2024-cover-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detailed<\/a> how Jill Biden told the magazine from Camp David that the then-president &#8220;will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he&#8217;s been president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to fight,&#8221; she said, adding the president &#8220;will always do what&#8217;s best for the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On July 21, 2024, Biden <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/biden-dropping-out-2024-presidential-election\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">dropped out<\/a><\/span>, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to take the spot at the top of the Democratic ticket. Months later, Jill Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DBY1wrninzz\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> ABC News his exit was the &#8220;right call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the former first lady is sharing a fuller picture of her reaction to the debate performance, in a wide-ranging interview on the election, the former president and her forthcoming book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jill Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DVyfYE0EQ2M\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0she is aiming to &#8220;set the record straight&#8221; on her time as first lady through the book.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch more of Jill Biden&#8217;s interview on &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; on May 31 at 9 a.m. on CBS stations and streaming on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/paramountplus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Paramount+<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><br \/>\n    <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jill-biden-joe-biden-stroke-2024-debate-sunday-morning-interview\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 Former first lady Jill Biden said she thought her husband was &#8220;having a stroke&#8221; during then-President Joe Biden&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jill Biden says she thought Joe Biden was &quot;having a stroke&quot; during 2024 debate. 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