“I was frightened” by 2024 debate, thought husband was having a stroke

Jill Biden: I was “scared” by Biden’s debate performance and thought he was having a stroke 00:30

Former First Lady Jill Biden said she was “terrified” by her husband Joe Biden’s behavior. 2024 debate performed and thought he had a stroke.

“I was scared, because I’ve never seen Joe like that before or since,” Jill Biden told CBS News Sunday Morning’s Rita Braver in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS.

“I don’t know what happened,” he said. “When I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared the hell out of me.”

Biden was running for a second term stumbled The presidential debate against Donald Trump in June 2024 led to widespread calls for him to drop out of the race. HE dropping out of school A month later, 107 days before the general election, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. He became the first president to withdraw from the presidential race since President Lyndon B. Johnson left office in March 1968.

In a wide-ranging interview, Jill Biden talked about the election, her husband, and her new book: The View from the East Wing: A Memoirand more.

Watch and stream the rest of Jill Biden’s “Sunday Morning” interview on May 31 at 9 a.m. on CBS stations Paramount+.