Former US First Lady Jill Biden has weighed in on her husband’s disastrous performance at the first 2024 presidential debate, a moment that ultimately marked the beginning of the end for his re-election campaign.In an interview preview published online on Wednesday, the television programme CBS Sunday Morning pressed the former first lady for her response to that moment.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“ Were you horrified as you saw it unfold?” host Rita Braver asked Jill Biden.“ I wasn’t horrified,” she responded. “I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never.”Braver then asked Jill Biden what she thought happened on June 27, 2024, when her husband, then-incumbent Joe Biden, took the debate stage opposite his Republican rival Donald Trump.“I don’t know what happened,” Jill Biden said. “As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke’, and it scared me to death.”A turning point for BidenBoth Joe and Jill Biden have largely stayed out of the spotlight since the 2024 election, which saw Trump be re-elected for a second, if nonconsecutive, term as president.Critics have largely pointed to the debate performance as tanking Joe Biden’s campaign for a second term and fuelling rumours about his declining health.The incumbent Democrat was 81 years old at the time. The following year, he was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer.Though Biden had debated Trump twice before, …
