Jill Biden feared Joe Biden was having a stroke during disastrous Trump debate

AP Associated PressSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-05-27 · 23:10 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min

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Jill Biden expressed fear that her husband, Joe Biden, was having a stroke during his June 2024 debate performance against Donald Trump. She stated in a recent CBS News interview that she had never seen him appear that way before or since. Biden's delivery during the debate was described as shaky, mumbling, and sometimes confused. This performance exacerbated existing voter concerns about his fitness for a second term and contributed to the end of his 2024 re-election campaign.

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Jill Biden stated she had never seen Joe Biden 'like that before or since'.

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Jill Biden feared Joe Biden was having a stroke during a debate.

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Joe Biden's debate performance fueled questions about his fitness for a second term.

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The debate performance led to the end of Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign.

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Jill Biden feared her husband was having a stroke as she watched then US President Joe Biden stumble through a disastrous debate performance that led to the end of his 2024 re-election campaign, the former first lady said in a recent interview.“I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” Jill Biden told CBS News in an interview scheduled to air on Sunday.Joe Biden’s shaky, mumbling and sometimes confused delivery against Donald Trump in June 2024 gave fuel to questions voters already had about his fitness for a second term.

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