Jill Biden‘s new memoir is reopening a political wound for Democrats potentially eyeing a 2028 presidential bid.The conversation surrounding former President Joe Biden’s legacy intensified last week after excerpts from Jill Biden’s memoir, View From the East Wing, surfaced online ahead of its release. In one passage, the former first lady recalled watching Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate performance and wondering whether “we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching.”“Is he short-circuiting?” she wrote. “Is this a stroke? … Has he been drugged? … Oh God will people watching assume this is how he is all the time?”
The renewed spotlight on Biden’s final months in office has reignited questions about whether top figures tied to his administration, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, could carry political baggage into the next Democratic primary.
At the National Action Network conference earlier this year, Harris acknowledged she is considering another White House bid. “I might,” Harris told Rev. Al Sharpton when asked directly about 2028. “I’m thinking about it.”
Buttigieg appeared to leave the door open during his own exchange with Sharpton. When Sharpton asked whether he should “be reserving a table at Sylvia’s” for another campaign stop, Buttigieg replied: “You save me a seat, I’ll be there.”
