Jill Biden Book Sparks Democratic Meltdown

Democrats thought they had finally buried the humiliating fallout from Joe Biden’s disastrous 2024 debate performance.

Now Jill Biden is digging it back up.

The former first lady’s upcoming memoir, View from the East Wing, is already causing headaches inside Democratic circles, with party insiders reportedly furious that she is reviving the ugly questions about Biden’s age, health and fitness just as Democrats are trying to focus voters on President Trump, inflation and the midterm elections.

Instead, they are being dragged right back to the night that helped blow up Biden’s re-election campaign.

“We need this as much as we need a hole in the head,” Democratic strategist Jim Manley told The New York Post.

The book, due out next week, includes Jill Biden’s stunning description of watching her husband fall apart on the debate stage against Trump on June 27, 2024.

According to an excerpt published by The Atlantic, Jill wrote that it felt like they were watching “an AI hologram” of Biden that was “glitching.”

She recalled wondering whether her husband was “short-circuiting,” suffering a stroke, or possibly had been drugged.

The comments have stunned Democrats because, at the time, Jill Biden publicly played cheerleader-in-chief.

After the debate, she praised Biden in front of supporters, telling him, “Joe — you did such a great job. You answered every question, you knew all the facts.”

That rosy public performance is now looking very different in light of what she says she was privately thinking.

One former senior Biden-era Democratic aide unloaded on the former first lady, telling The Post, “I think Jill Biden must have had a stroke herself to think that her husband was up to the job.”

The aide went even further, mocking Jill Biden’s insistence on being called “Dr.” because of her doctorate in education.

“If she can sit back and listen to his constant drivel for over 4 years, she’s the one with real cognitive decline,” the aide said.

The brutal reaction shows just how raw the Biden debate debacle remains inside the Democratic Party.

Biden’s performance that night shocked the country. He froze. He stumbled. He appeared confused and visibly diminished while facing Trump on national television.

The White House initially blamed a cold. Then came talk of jet lag. Then came claims that Biden had overprepared and become bogged down with too many facts.

But Jill Biden’s new account raises an obvious question for critics and frustrated Democrats alike.

If she truly feared something was seriously wrong with him that night, why did the Biden team keep insisting everything was fine?

One former Biden administration official reportedly asked, “Why did we push out he had a cold if she thought he had a stroke?”

Another former White House official dismissed Jill’s version outright.

“No one thought he had a stroke,” the person told The Post. “That is in her head and her head only.”

The same official pointed out that Biden continued with campaign events immediately afterward, including a stop at Waffle House.

“Who goes to Waffle House after a stroke?” the official asked.

That is the political problem for Democrats.

For months, Biden’s inner circle and defenders mocked, dismissed and attacked anyone who raised concerns about the president’s mental fitness. Now Jill Biden appears to be admitting she had some of those same fears in real time.

Former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor blasted the memoir excerpt on X, arguing that it was “enraging” to see Jill Biden describe fears that Biden’s family, campaign and supporters savaged others for expressing at the time.

Biden eventually dropped out of the race under pressure from his own party and endorsed Kamala Harris. Trump went on to defeat Harris and return to the White House.

Now Democrats are trying to move on, but Jill Biden’s book is forcing them to relive one of the most embarrassing episodes in modern Democratic politics.

Andrew Bates, a former Biden administration spokesman, told The Post that the party had “a duty to win” and failed.

“I don’t see why that painful conversation for the party needed to be publicly re-opened right now,” Bates said.

Some Democrats insist the memoir will not affect the midterms, arguing voters are more focused on Trump, gas prices, immigration and the economy.

But the timing could hardly be worse for a party still trying to convince Americans it can be trusted with power.

Jill Biden may have intended her book to explain what happened behind the scenes.

Instead, it has reopened an old wound and revived the question Democrats spent years trying to silence:

How much did Biden’s inner circle know, and how long did they try to hide it?