FILE -- President Joe Biden (right) listens as Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, speaks during the CNN presidential debate in 2024. (Gerald Herbert | AP)
Jill Biden is sharing her thoughts on her and her husband’s time in the White House, including the run-up to the latest presidential election.
The former first lady sat down with CBS for an interview that is scheduled to be seen in its entirety on Sunday.
One of the subjects that was touched on was Joe Biden’s 2024 presidential debate performance.
“As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death,” Jill Biden is quoted as saying in the interview.
She went on to say she was frightened by what she was seeing that night, as she had never seen her husband act like that before or after the event.
Joe Biden’s questionable debate performance caused many Democratic leaders to panic about his ability to lead the party at age 81 against the Republicans and Donald Trump.
Joe Biden was running for a second term when he seemingly stumbled through some of his answers and appeared to stop mid-sentence when debating Trump on stage in that June 2024 appearance.
The 46th President of the United States ended up dropping out of the presidential race about a month after the debate, endorsing then-Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
Joe Biden has only made a select few public appearances since leaving office. Last year, his representatives announced the former president was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer at the age of 82.
“Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support,” Joe Biden shared on social media at the time.
Joe Biden’s political career spans over five decades, culminating in becoming the U.S. president in 2021.
According to CBS, Jill Biden’s interview will also cover the release of her new book, “View from the East Wing: A Memoir,” which is due out June 2.