Jill Biden Says She Was ‘Frightened’ After Disastrous Debate, Doctors Checked on Joe
Jill Biden said during a Tuesday interview that she was “frightened” following Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance and revealed that her husband’s campaign team was so concerned by his behavior during the ill-fated contest that they had doctors examine him after he came off stage.
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The former first lady appeared on MS NOW’s Morning Joe to promote her memoir View From The East Wing, in which she reveals that she feared former President Biden had a stroke the night of the first presidential debate in Atlanta.
The disclosures in Jill Biden’s memoir and her comments during a recent round of promotional interviews stand in stark contrast to her characterization of her husband’s debate performance at the time — and her repeated insistence that he was fully able to meet the demands of a presidential campaign.
Asked why she continued to support her husband’s participation in the race despite her fear that he may have had a stroke, Jill Biden argued that since Joe had been medically cleared, she didn’t feel he needed to drop out.
“But publicly, of course, you said that he did well, you cheered him on that evening. What do you say to people who today wonder if you thought that then, that something, a medical episode had happened. Did you recommend that he go? Did you recommend that he go to a doctor?” co-host Jonathan Lemire asked.
“I have a team of doctors around me as first lady. Joe had a team of doctors around him. So, when I saw that, and I was frightened, I was, you know, scared to death to see that, and, but the doctors were there,” Jill Biden responded.
“And then we got off the stage, and you know, I went to get my stuff. He was checked out by the doctors. They said he’s fine,” she added.
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Jill Biden admitted to noticing warning signs of cognitive decline early on in her husband’s term, though campaign staffers and advisers insisted that the president’s health was in tip-top shape throughout his term and stuck to that line even after the debate.
“Joe Biden is proud of the team he leads as he continues to build on the most successful record in modern American history,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates shared with the Wall Street Journal two weeks after the debate. Bates also denied allegations that his team was protecting the president from the public.
Published shortly after Biden left the White House, the book Original Sin, by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson, examined the lengths that staffers would go to shield Biden from everyone, even his own vice president.
Biden eventually withdrew from race after a procession of prominent Democrats began calling for him to drop out. Vice President Kamala Harris was then handed the nomination.
In addition to commenting on her husband’s performance as a candidate, Jill Biden also managed to provide an analysis of her East Wing decorating strategy during the Tuesday interview. Removing portraits of “older men” and replacing them with “first ladies,” Biden emphasized that her interior design was intended to impart a sense of civic responsibility.
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