In a new NBC interview, former first lady Jill Biden says she explains why she publicly praised her husband's performance afterward despite telling him privately that he had messed up.
Jill Biden also addresses Kamala Harris's criticism of how she and Joe Biden handled their decision to initially seek reelection.
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Former first lady Jill Biden says she felt she “had to support” President Joe Biden publicly in the wake of his disastrous 2024 debate with Donald Trump, despite acknowledging now that she feared her husband might have been having a stroke.
Her latest comments came in an interview Monday with NBC in which she was pressed on her public insistence that Joe Biden was capable of serving four more years in the Oval Office. It comes as the former first lady launches a tour to support her new memoir, “View from the East Wing,” which is being released Tuesday.










