Jill Biden says husband should be remembered as hero for dropping out insists advisers pushed him to run for second term
WASHINGTON — Jill Biden declared her husband Joe is a “hero” for dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and insisted it was his advisers who wanted him to run for a second term.In an interview with The Jamie Kern Lima Show, the former first lady didn’t directly answer whether she was the “Lady McBeth” who pushed Joe Biden to spend four more years in the White House and instead laid the blame at the feet of their long-serving staff.She confirmed that Biden, 83, originally intended to serve only one term as president but claimed, after Republicans had a poor showing in the 2022 midterms, Democratic Party members and his own advisers said he needed to run for re-election.“After the midterms occurred and we won the midterms, and how you know the Democrats were doing so well, and everybody was coming to Joe and to me and saying, ‘He’s got to keep going,’” she said.“His advisors were saying that.
People were saying that everywhere, out on the road.He has to run.”Republicans underperformed in the 2022 midterm election, winning a scant majority in the House and failing to take the Senate. Biden, as president and leader of the party, was credited with a successful election.But Donald Trump, planning his 2024 presidential bid, continued to raise questions about Biden’s health.
And that issue jumped to the forefront after Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June 2024, where he fumbled for answers and stammered through his responses.In the aftermath, members of his own party turned against him until, on July 21, 2024, Biden announced he would step down as the party’s nominee.Jill Biden said she hoped the “true story” of what happened in those years would come out in the historical record and said she wants her husband remembered as a “hero.”“People forget that historical context because of all the negative overlay, they forget the true story- of what happened,” she said.“And I’m hoping that it’s revealed in history ...