{"id":199789,"date":"2026-05-28T15:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/jill-biden-says-joe-biden-was-slowing-down-but-wasnt-in-cognitive-decline-as-he-ran-for-reelection\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:57:43","slug":"jill-biden-says-joe-biden-was-slowing-down-but-wasnt-in-cognitive-decline-as-he-ran-for-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/jill-biden-says-joe-biden-was-slowing-down-but-wasnt-in-cognitive-decline-as-he-ran-for-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden says Joe Biden &#8220;was slowing down&#8221; but wasn&#8217;t in cognitive decline as he ran for reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<section >\n<p>Jill Biden said she never saw signs that her husband, former President Joe Biden, was in cognitive decline, but acknowledged he was &#8220;slowing down&#8221; as he ran for reelection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221; correspondent Rita Braver asked the former first lady whether she saw signs that her husband was &#8220;falling into cognitive decline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; Jill Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Braver cited the public&#8217;s concerns about the president&#8217;s mental acuity: &#8220;People were saying he wasn&#8217;t the same Joe Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was the same, the essence of the same Joe Biden, but yeah, he was slowing down. He was getting older. It&#8217;s a very intense job. I think it ages you \u2014 quickly,&#8221; Jill Biden replied, in an interview airing Sunday, May 31, on CBS.<\/p>\n<p>She <span >also said<\/span> that she was &#8220;frightened&#8221; by her husband&#8217;s poor performance on stage during the 2024 presidential debate and <span >thought he was having a stroke<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what happened. As I watched it, I thought, &#8216;Oh, my God, he&#8217;s having a stroke.&#8217; And it scared me to death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a month after the disastrous debate performance, Joe Biden <span >dropped out<\/span> of the presidential race against Donald Trump, 107 days before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Biden talked about the election, her husband, her new book, &#8220;View From the East Wing: A Memoir,&#8221; and more in a wide-ranging interview.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch more of Jill Biden&#8217;s interview on &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; May 31 at 9 a.m. on CBS stations and streaming on <\/em><em>Paramount+<\/em><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<section >\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n      .component--type-recirculation {\n      .item:nth-child(7),\n      .card-recirc:nth-child(7) {\n        display: none;\n      }\n    }\n      #inline-recirc-item--id-2542a5f4-92b0-494b-9e41-a367b765baf3, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-2542a5f4-92b0-494b-9e41-a367b765baf3 {\n      display: none;\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    #inline-recirc-item--id-2542a5f4-92b0-494b-9e41-a367b765baf3 ~ .item:nth-child(7) {\n      display: block;\n    }\n  <\/style>\n<section >\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section >\n<p >In:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jill Biden<\/li>\n<li>Joe Biden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jill-biden-says-joe-biden-was-slowing-down-but-wasnt-in-cognitive-decline-as-he-ran-for-reelection\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Biden said she never saw signs that her husband, former President Joe Biden, was in cognitive decline, but acknowledged he was &#8220;slowing down&#8221; 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