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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,912 posts)
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 08:55 PM 10 hrs ago

Jill Biden tells "The View" Joe Biden wouldn't be fit for second term after his cancer diagnosis

Dr. Jill Biden has opened up about husband Joe Biden's fitness for a second term in office following his prostate cancer diagnosis.

In a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday with the cohosts of The View, the former first lady gave a health update on her husband's cancer, and said that she doesn't think he'd be able to serve as president for a second term following his diagnosis with the disease in May 2025.

"Do you still think he would've been in a good place to serve as president for another four years, until he was 86?" cohost and former Donald Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin asked after the cohosts discussed President Biden's health amid his widely criticized June 2024 debate performance against Trump.

"Not from what I know now," Dr. Biden replied, referencing her husband's cancer. "Who knew? It was so shocking to get a cancer diagnosis." Jill Biden was on Tuesday's episode to promote her new memoir, The View From the East Wing.

Biden admitted that "our whole life has changed now," again calling her husband's stage IV prostate cancer diagnosis "shocking."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jill-biden-tells-view-joe-160721411.html

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Jill Biden tells "The View" Joe Biden wouldn't be fit for second term after his cancer diagnosis (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 10 hrs ago OP
What could have been ... dweller 10 hrs ago #1
Yes MustLoveBeagles 10 hrs ago #2
nice dream. riversedge 10 hrs ago #3
Fan fiction Renew Deal 9 hrs ago #4
He wouldn't have won Fiendish Thingy 8 hrs ago #5

dweller

(28,771 posts)
1. What could have been ...
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 09:10 PM
10 hrs ago

Joe wins the 24 election , but the cancer allows him to step down , with Harris moving in to the Presidency .


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riversedge

(81,737 posts)
3. nice dream.
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 09:16 PM
10 hrs ago

On another thought--I still find it difficult to know that enough people voted
the stupid a Second time!!

Fiendish Thingy

(24,241 posts)
5. He wouldn't have won
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 11:00 PM
8 hrs ago

He would have lost by a wider margin than Harris did, and Trump likely would have gotten 400 Electoral votes.

Sad, but true, and the data is there for those willing to examine it.

The campaign knew, and so did Jill.

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