Former first lady Jill Biden defended her husband, former President Joe Biden, as a presidential candidate on Tuesday, saying she believes he would have defeated President Donald Trump if he were the final nominee in 2024.“I believe he would have beat Donald Trump in that election,” Jill Biden said in a Tuesday morning interview on MSNow‘s Morning Joe.Jill Biden has been rehashing the 2024 presidential election in several media appearances as she promotes her new book, View From The East Wing. In the Tuesday interview, she stood by her husband and her belief in his ability to win, but also discussed how difficult the 2024 election was for their family and addressed the current state of the former president’s health as he battles stage four metastatic prostate cancer.
When asked if her husband would have been able to serve a second term with his current health, Jill Biden answered, “I don’t know the answer to that.” She discussed how “painful” the whole situation of being in the race and then dropping out was for their family.
“I would never want anyone I loved to go through that again,” she said. “It was so painful, not just for us, not just for me, and for Joe, but we have children and grandchildren, and to see them have to go through that was really a hard thing, a hard time for our family, and I would never want to put our family through that again.”
