{"id":94062,"date":"2026-05-28T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/jill-biden-i-was-frightened-by-joes-debate-performance-i-thought-he-was-having-a-stroke\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:42:01","slug":"jill-biden-i-was-frightened-by-joes-debate-performance-i-thought-he-was-having-a-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/jill-biden-i-was-frightened-by-joes-debate-performance-i-thought-he-was-having-a-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden: &#8220;I Was Frightened&#8221; By Joe&#8217;s Debate Performance, I Thought He Was Having A Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Former first lady Jill Biden said she was &#8220;frightened&#8221; by her husband Joe Biden&#8217;s performance at the 2024 presidential debate in an interview with &#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221; correspondent Rita Braver.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RITA BRAVER, CBS SUNDAY MORNINGS: Were you horrified as you saw it unfold?  FORMER FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN: I wasn&#8217;t horrified, I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never.  BRAVER: Or since?   BIDEN: Yes, or since.  BRAVER: You&#8217;ve never seen him like that?  BIDEN: Never, no.   BRAVER: What happened?   BIDEN: I don&#8217;t know what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh my God, he&#8217;s having a stroke. And it scared me to death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  However, at the time, Jill Biden praised her husband for his performance.  &#8220;Joe, you did such a great job answering every question. You knew all the facts,&#8221; she said immediately following the debate.  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9nYLnrou8A?si=ysw4MliHPx4pESSI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/27\/jill_biden_i_was_frightened_by_joes_debate_performance_i_thought_he_was_having_a_stroke.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former first lady Jill Biden said she was &#8220;frightened&#8221; by her husband Joe Biden&#8217;s performance at the 2024 presidential debate in an interview with &#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221; correspondent Rita Braver. RITA BRAVER, CBS SUNDAY MORNINGS: Were you horrified as you saw it unfold? FORMER FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN: I wasn&#8217;t horrified, I was frightened, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6290,1356,9846,4321,4471,2063,963,841,2026],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}