Former first lady tells CBS News she was "frightened" by Joe Biden's June 2024 debate performance against Donald Trump.
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Former US First Lady Jill Biden said she was "frightened" by her husband Joe Biden's performance during his June 2024 presidential debate against Donald Trump, and thought he was experiencing 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 set to air Sunday. "I don't know what happened. As I watched it, I thought, 'Oh, my God, he's having a stroke.' And it scared me to death."
The debate took place on June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. During the event, President Biden, then 81 years old, stumbled through his responses, repeatedly freezing on camera and losing the thread of his arguments while facing Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Biden's poor debate performance prompted widespread alarm among Democrats and calls for him to withdraw from the race. He dropped out approximately one month later, with 107 days remaining until the general election. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, becoming the first sitting president to withdraw from a presidential race since President Lyndon B. Johnson stepped aside in March 1968.
Jill Biden's comments come ahead of the full airing of her CBS interview on Sunday and the June 2 release of her memoir, "View from the East Wing." In the interview preview, when host Rita Braver asked whether she was horrified as she watched the debate unfold, Jill Biden clarified her emotional response. "I wasn't horrified," she said. "I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since."
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