{"id":2609473,"date":"2026-06-02T09:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-biden-says-she-believes-joe-wouldve-won-against-trump-despite-her-concerns-about-a-second-term\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:44:49","slug":"jill-biden-says-she-believes-joe-wouldve-won-against-trump-despite-her-concerns-about-a-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-biden-says-she-believes-joe-wouldve-won-against-trump-despite-her-concerns-about-a-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden says she believes Joe would&#8217;ve won against Trump despite her concerns about a second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjill-biden-says-she-believes-joe-wouldve-won-against-trump-despite-her-concerns-about-a-second-term%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2609473&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Jill Biden defended Joe Biden\u2019s 2024 candidacy in a Tuesday interview, saying she believes he would have beaten Donald Trump if he had been the final nominee. While promoting her memoir *View From The east Wing*, she described how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-heart-was-in-my-mouth-magician-criss-angel-speaks-of-terrifying-fail-with-rbs-ginuwine\/\" title=\"\u2018My Heart Was In My Mouth\u2019: Magician Criss Angel Speaks Of Terrifying Fail With R&amp;B\u2019s Ginuwine\">emotionally difficult<\/a> it was for their family to stay in the race until he withdrew, and she said they also faced criticism from within the Democratic Party-including comments she said came from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-the-biden-administration-laughed-at-your-pain\/\" title=\"5 Times The Biden Administration Laughed At Your Pain\">major figures<\/a> like barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi-suggesting he should step aside earlier.<\/p>\n<p>She also addressed backlash tied to Kamala Harris\u2019s memoir, *107 Days*, where Harris criticized Joe Biden\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-elder-says-his-campaign-raised-4-5m-in-drive-to-replace-california-governor\/\" title=\"Larry Elder Says His Campaign Raised .5M In Drive To Replace California Governor\">continue running<\/a> as \u201creckless.\u201d Jill Biden said she was surprised by those remarks and maintained that the Biden team worked well together.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Biden spoke about Joe Biden\u2019s health, noting his stage four <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-cure-duran-duran-guitarist-andy-taylor-reveals-he-has-stage-4-prostate-cancer\/\" title=\"\u2018No Cure\u2019: Duran Duran Guitarist Andy Taylor Reveals He Has Stage 4 Prostate Cancer\">metastatic prostate cancer<\/a> diagnosis<\/a> in 2025. She said he is \u201cdoing OK,\u201d still making speeches and keeping his schedule, but that the illness has taken a toll and made him tire more often.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI believe he would have beat Donald Trump in that election,\u201d Jill Biden said in a Tuesday morning interview on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/msnbc\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1009\">MSNow<\/a>\u2018s<em> Morning Joe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4590792\/trump-appoints-bill-pulte-acting-director-of-national-intelligence\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump appoints Bill Pulte to be acting Director of National Intelligence<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4589705\/freedom-250-concert-white-house-controversy\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>White House distances itself from Freedom 250 amid concert controversy<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4590379\/jill-biden-memoir-defends-joe-biden-legacy\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Jill Biden defends Joe Biden\u2019s legacy in new memoir<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jill Biden has been rehashing the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-election\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11446\">2024 presidential election<\/a> in several media appearances as she promotes her <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4590379\/jill-biden-memoir-defends-joe-biden-legacy\/\">new book<\/a>, <em>View From The East Wing<\/em>. In the Tuesday <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/morning-joe\">interview<\/a>, 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\u2019s health as he battles stage four metastatic prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked if her husband would have been able to serve a second term with his current health, Jill Biden answered, \u201cI don\u2019t know the answer to that.\u201d She discussed how \u201cpainful\u201d the whole situation of being in the race and then dropping out was for their family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would never want anyone I loved to go through that again,\u201d she said. \u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former first lady also touched on some of the backlash from the Democratic Party that she and Joe Biden received for staying in the race until July 21, 2024. She said it was \u201chard to go through\u201d hearing major voices in the Democratic Party, such as former President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"360\">Barack Obama<\/a> and Speaker Emerita <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nancy-pelosi\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"454\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, signal that Joe Biden should forgo his reelection bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have had the support of the Democratic Party for so long,\u201d she said. \u201cJoe\u2019s been in public service as long as I\u2019ve known him, and it was, it was hard to go through that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also touched on former Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s shading of the former president\u2019s headstrong decision to continue to run in her memoir, <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/107-days\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"16460\">107 Days<\/a><\/em>. Harris had called the decision to continue \u201creckless\u201d and wrote that the 2024 Democratic nominee \u201cwasn\u2019t a choice that should have been left to an individual\u2019s ego, an individual\u2019s ambition,\u201d referring to the former president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was a little surprised that she wrote that,\u201d Jill Biden said. \u201cI thought we were a great \u2013 Joe and Kamala, me, Doug, \u2013 I thought we were a great team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4588798\/jill-biden-joe-slowing-down-2024\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4588798\">JILL BIDEN SAYS JOE WAS \u2018SLOWING DOWN\u2019 BEFORE ABANDONING 2024 BID<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former president was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer in May 2025, with the cancer soon after metastasizing to his bones, and Jill Biden gave an update on her husband\u2019s health, saying, \u201cIt has been tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCancer is really tough, and so I would say he\u2019s doing OK,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s still making speeches, he\u2019s still on Amtrak a couple times a month, keeping his schedule, but cancer takes its toll. I know every family in America has been touched by cancer, so I think that people can relate to when I say, you know, he gets tired a little more often.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Biden says Joe would\u2019ve defeated Trump in 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2609474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6725-1-e1780359041546.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32431,32945,32320,32187,3634],"class_list":["post-2609473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-2024-election","tag-jill-biden","tag-joe-biden","tag-second-term","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6725-1-e1780359041546.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609477,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609473\/revisions\/2609477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}