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Biden Says His Career-Ending Debate Was 'Not Very Consequential' — His Own Wife Thought He Was Having a Stroke

Twenty-four days. That's how long it took between Joe Biden's June 27, 2024 debate performance and the end of his presidential campaign on July 21. In that span, his own party panicked, his donors fled, and Democratic leadership quietly arranged the most spectacular political defenestration in modern American history.

Biden now says it wasn't a big deal.

In an interview with People Magazine released Wednesday, the former president offered his assessment of the debate that ended his career. "Look, I don't know anybody who hasn't made a mistake in a debate," Biden said. "To me, it was not very consequential. First of all, I thought there'd be another debate, which there wasn't."

He continued: "But notwithstanding the fact that there wasn't another debate, it didn't disturb me because it wasn't consequential."

The comments appear in connection with Biden's upcoming memoir, "Promise Me, America," scheduled for release on November 17. A memoir that, by the way, he began writing after being diagnosed with cancer — a detail that makes the revisionist history feel less like strategy and more like a man trying to edit his own legacy before the window closes.

The problem is that 300 million Americans watched that debate in Atlanta. They saw Biden stumble over words. They watched the long pauses where sentences went to die. They saw the confused facial expressions that launched a thousand "is he okay" texts across every group chat in the country.

Former Trump campaign operative Steve Cortes framed the math plainly: "Joe Biden now claims his 2024 presidential debate against President Trump, which forced him to drop out of the race, was not very consequential." He added: "Just 24 days after the 'not very consequential' presidential debate, Joe Biden ended his campaign for President."

Former National Republican Senatorial Committee senior adviser Matt Whitlock put a finer point on it. "It was without question the most consequential Presidential debate in history — he likely would have stayed the nominee without it," Whitlock wrote. "But I'm definitely excited for the other hot takes in the book now."

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis kept it simple: "It was the most lopsided debate in history. C'mon, man!"

Conservative commentator Steve Guest went with the direct route, calling Biden "TOTALLY delusional."

But the detail that makes Biden's revisionism truly collapse didn't come from any Republican. It came from Jill Biden. In a CBS News Sunday Morning interview clip released in May, the former First Lady admitted she thought Joe "was having a stroke" during the debate.

His own wife's first instinct watching that performance was a medical emergency. His party's first instinct was to remove him from the ticket. The donor class's first instinct was to close their checkbooks. Every person in Biden's orbit understood what happened on that stage — except, apparently, the man on the stage.

The memoir drops November 17. One chapter will presumably explain how losing the presidency was also not very consequential.

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