WASHINGTON: Former US first woman Jill Biden says in an upcoming interview that her husband’s disastrous 2024 debate efficiency towards Donald Trump was so alarming, she thought he was having a stroke on stage.
“I used to be frightened, as a result of I had by no means ever seen Joe like that earlier than or since. By no means,” she instructed CBS Information Sunday Morning as a part of an interview airing this weekend.
“I do not know what occurred,” she mentioned within the clip launched Wednesday (Might 27). “As I watched it, I believed, ‘Oh, my God, he is having a stroke.’ And it scared me to dying.”
Within the debate, then 81-year-old President Joe Biden chanced on his phrases, stared open-mouthed and misplaced his practice of thought as he struggled to counter his bombastic rival.
But instantly after the controversy, Jill Biden praised her husband’s efficiency, telling him in entrance of a crowd of supporters: “Joe, you probably did such a fantastic job. You answered each query, you knew all of the info.”

