{"id":3419,"date":"2026-05-28T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/jill-biden-i-thought-joe-was-having-a-stroke-at-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:22:34","slug":"jill-biden-i-thought-joe-was-having-a-stroke-at-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/jill-biden-i-thought-joe-was-having-a-stroke-at-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden: I Thought Joe Was Having a Stroke at Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In remarks set to air on CBS Sunday Morning, <strong>Jill Biden<\/strong> described the moment she watched then-President <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> struggle through the CNN debate as terrifying and unlike anything she had witnessed before or since, as <em>Breitbart News<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by reporter <strong>Rita Braver<\/strong> whether she was horrified watching the debate unfold, the former first lady made a stark admission about her immediate reaction to her husband&#8217;s condition on stage.<\/p>\n<p><em>I wasn&#8217;t horrified, I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that,<\/em> she stated, emphasizing that neither before nor after that night had she observed similar behavior from the president.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on what she believed was happening during the Atlanta debate, Jill Biden confessed she genuinely thought her husband might be experiencing a medical emergency in real time.<\/p>\n<p>The former first lady said she watched the debate thinking he might be having a stroke, describing the experience as terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>The June 27, 2024 debate performance triggered widespread bipartisan alarm about President Biden&#8217;s fitness for office. Less than a month later, on July 21, 2024, Biden withdrew from the presidential race via a letter posted to social media.<\/p>\n<p>Following his exit, Biden immediately endorsed Vice President <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong> for the Democratic nomination. Harris herself attempted to downplay the debate debacle, characterizing Biden&#8217;s performance as merely a slow start against <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The interview revelation raises fresh questions about what White House staff and family members observed regarding the president&#8217;s condition in the months leading up to his withdrawal from the race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Biden revealed she feared her husband was having a stroke during his June debate performance that led him to withdraw from the presidential race less than a month later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":3418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[3480,2880,3477,553,3478,3479,278],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atlanta","tag-cnn","tag-jill-biden","tag-joe-biden","tag-presidential-debate","tag-stroke-concerns","tag-usa","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}