Former first lady Jill Biden said she was “frightened” by her husband Joe Biden’s 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 ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ 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 the June 2024 presidential debate against Donald Trump, prompting widespread calls for him to drop out of the race. He 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, and her new book, , and more.
Watch more of Jill Biden’s interview on “Sunday Morning” on May 31 at 9 a.m. on CBS stations and streaming on .Ìý
