President Biden’s performance in the CNN Presidential Debate was shocking. But what happened after the debate ended was even more revealing: Jill Biden had to help Joe off stage and she praised him as if he was a 4-year-old for ... answering all the questions. This caused many to question whether Jill is the real driving force behind Biden’s re-election campaign. But this isn’t the first time these rumors have surfaced. Glenn reviews multiple mainstream media pieces on why Jill Biden may have convinced Joe to run, despite his age. But could this explain his poor debate performance? Did other prominent Democrats allow this train wreck to happen?
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GLENN: Sometimes there are stories, that are in our show prep.
And we include them, because spider senses tell me something is not right.
And there's been a couple of stories in our morning show prep, that if you get it at GlennBeck.com, it's free. You get all the stories.
You'll be able to see a pattern in the way that we work as a team.
There are two stories about Jill Biden that bothered me. And I never talked about them on the air, because I couldn't figure them out yet.
But I had a feeling about a year ago, that Joe Biden isn't making the decisions on whether to run or not.
It was Jill.
Now, there's a couple of things.
First, let me go to a story from Politico.
How Jill Biden helped Joe to get to yes for running on re-election at 80.
She is the not-so-secret weapon behind her husband. And unlike four years ago, she doesn't have reservations before he chose to run. Privately, the First Lady encouraged her husband to run again, while giving him the space he needed to process the decision in the way he traditionally does. With extensive deliberations, consideration of the burden it would place on his family, and a bit of classic Biden hemming and hawing. She was involved in the high level discussions around the decision. Giving council when she felt it was necessary. She's usually in the room when senior campaign staff, was presenting strategy to her husband.
She'll ask questions. But she never weighs on the decisions. Said a former senior Biden adviser.
Her gentle encouragement of her husband's reelection run. Comes as she relishes her role, hanging out at the Super Bowl, or the women's final four. And actively posting on social media. Unlike the cliché applied to wives of major political figures, that they're the secret weapon behind their husband's success.
There is nothing secret about the role she is playing. Nearly a dozen aides and advisers in Biden world described the First Lady as someone who has grown more willing to enjoy the rigors and demands of being in the political spotlight herself, and more convinced of her husband's ability to be fit for the job.
Interesting line. When I read that, I went, hmm.
That's a weird line to just throw in.
Close advisers says, she feels a comfort level with her role inside the White House. Balancing the ceremonial responsibilities. Now, why are they making this?
Why are they making his throwing in his decision to run, and that she is feeling more comfortable at the White House?
That she also is really enjoying kind of the power things that you get to do. In Washington.
And it goes on to talk about, he's -- she's always there, taking notes, listening. With her glasses on.
And Joe will always look at her, and go, what do you think?
And she advises him. Now, that is contradicted in the same story.
And it's just a confusing mess.
I read another story about a year ago, that was talking about how Jill was the force, behind the -- the Biden run, this time around.
That she was the one, driving it.
Okay.
Then there was this story, that just came out from Slate last week. Or maybe earlier this week.
What's happening with Jill Biden?
June has turned out, unlike how the Bidens expected. To me natured by a much bleaker circumstance. Namely Hunter Biden's federal trial. And conviction.
Some of that could not have been foreseen.
Jill Biden as an intensely private First Lady, exercised her near perfect control over her image during her three and a half years in the White House. However, that has cracked.
When she appeared at Hunter's trial this month, she faced exactly the same sort of scrutiny and unpredictable headlines that she sought to avoid. Her communications director reacted defensively to questions about this, saying, she's a mom. Of course, she would be there as much as possible to support him. The spokesperson said, at one point -- and it was hard to argue with that. Even as ABC News began reporting the steep cost to the taxpayers of her trips to the courthouse.
Now, when was the last time -- I mean, unless it was Melania Trump. When was the last time you heard about the First Lady's expense?
Remember how they -- they threw just flower petals at the feet of Michelle Obama?
And she could spend a fortune and nobody ever said anything about it?
In fact, you were called a racist if you did say something about it?
Jill was more in her element a few weeks ago. Appearing on Good Morning America. And the View.
By the way, both ABC.
It was ostensibly to promote her book. These were actually campaign appearances. And awkward ones, at that that.
But they were nothing compared to the book she was promoting Willow. Which I have not been able to quite shake from my mind, since peering through a digital copy this month, as admittedly more consequential events played out.
The juxtaposition of poor Willow the Cat, against all else, that has happened in June, feels like a telling example of the Biden's larger comes trouble.
And tendency to assume the benevolent gaslighting might be a viable solution for dealing with them.
So here's Slate magazine. They start out about her appearance at Hunter Biden's trial. And that she blew her, you know -- cracked that she will of just I'm the perfect First Lady.
Then they went into, she's spending a lot of money.
Then they go into this bizarre review of this book, she was hocking, about Willow the cat. And they go so far as to say, it might be good news for Jill Biden that no one is paying attention to this book. It could go on. But here's what bothered me on these stories. And this is why they were included in the show prep. And I didn't know why exactly.
The left does not go after the First Lady. And it wasn't a universal thing, it was here and there.
In this story, you find out, that there were three occasions, that it was just ABC News.
Hmm. I believe that Jill Biden was the driving force behind Joe, making this decision.
To run again. And that there were people in the White House, and people in the democratic party, that knew that was going to be a disaster.
And they couldn't come out and say anything. It wasn't like Edith Wilson.
Because this is what happened. The Democratic Party, under Woodrow Wilson.
He had a stroke.
Edith ran the White House, ran everything.
Put a pen in his hand. And then signed his name. To documents and everything else.
And he was going to run for a third term. Well, nobody saw the president.
She wouldn't let anybody in. And finally, the Congress. The Democrats got together, and said, we demand we see him.
Or we're going to bring up hearings.
And he will have to appear. So they did. She was -- had registered him for a third term.
After the stroke. And the Democrats finally had to come to her. And threaten her. And say, we're going to expose all of this. Or you can go away peacefully in the night.
I'm not saying that Jill was -- you know, faking his signature or anything like that. But she was the one that was getting in the way of getting him to step down, because there were Democrats, screw the country.
Didn't think that he should run for president again. I think last night happened because that same force that has been throwing her under the bus. The same force has said, put him in now, while we still have a chance. Let's do a debate early.
And they sold it, and they bought it. And they did it.
And what happened last night, Jill Biden was the first one to step up, as soon as. He -- well, let me just show you the walking off the stage.
Who was the one walking -- he was stuck. Donald Trump left the stage.
And it was -- this is just a shot from -- from people in the room.
This wasn't what was on TV. Show that -- show that videotape of him --
VOICE: President Trump walking off the stage. The first debate of the 2024 campaign, and the earliest presidential campaign ever now in the books.
GLENN: So he just walks off, and Joe Biden is just standing there. And Jill comes out, and grabs his arm and stands there for a while, and then walks him down, with his arm down the stairs of the stage.
Then they go back into the Spin Room. And here's what she says, when they go back in public. Listen to this.
JILL: Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts!
And let me ask the crowd, what did Trump do? Lie!
GLENN: Look at him.
Then she went to Waffle Hut -- or Waffle House. She goes to Waffle House. And she's running a little dog and pony show, where Joe is just kind of, you know, still looks like he was hit by a freight train. And she is spinning this whole thing, and leading a show, at a Waffle House.
The hell is going on there?
I think this was -- I think this was a democratic inside job, to get her to have so much pressure. Not him.
Her!
To feel the pressure, that he has got to go.
Could be wrong.
But I bet I'm not.