Jill Biden Defends Backing Joe Biden After 2024 Debate as Cancer Has Spread to His Bones
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Updated · CNN · Jun 1
Jill Biden Defends Backing Joe Biden After 2024 Debate as Cancer Has Spread to His Bones
11 articles · Updated · CNN · Jun 1
Jill Biden said she feared during Joe Biden’s 2024 debate that he might be having a stroke, but still praised him publicly afterward because she felt she “had to support” him as his wife.
NBC’s interview pressed her on why she had insisted he could serve four more years; she said he admitted backstage that he had badly messed up, while she tried to lift him up before supporters.
Late July 2024 brought the political fallout: Joe Biden quit the race less than four weeks after the debate and endorsed Kamala Harris, whose later criticism Jill Biden brushed off as merely Harris’s view.
On his health, Jill Biden acknowledged he had slowed with age and sometimes forgot words, but said doctors told them he was healthy and that she still saw him working long hours.
Joe Biden’s 2025 prostate cancer diagnosis remains the broader concern: she said the disease has metastasized to his bones, he is “doing OK” after radiation, and will likely live with cancer for the rest of his life.
Why would a former first lady's memoir risk reopening such painful wounds years after the events?