Jill Biden conceded Monday that if she had to do it all over again, she would not advise husband Joe Biden to seek re-election.
“Would I want to put Joe through the hurt and the pain that we felt during that time? Never, never. I mean, it was so hurtful,” she told NBC’s “Today” show ahead of the release of her memoir, “View from the East Wing.”
But, the former first lady added, the decision about whether to run again “had to be his decision alone” and “the doctors said he was healthy” enough to serve four more years.
“I saw him doing the job every single day, every single day. He got up, he went into the office, he did the job,” she added. “I saw him work hours into the night.”
Jill Biden admitted the 46th president had slowed down and was stuttering more — but argued those were signs of exhaustion rather than mental decline.
“Was he slowing down a little bit when he got tired?” she asked. “Did he stutter a little bit at night? Yeah, sure. But he was still doing the job, and he was doing a good job.”