Jill Biden memoir revives questions about Biden baggage for 2028 Democrats

Published June 5, 2026 6:00am ET



Jill Biden‘s new memoir is reopening a political wound for Democrats potentially eyeing a 2028 presidential bid.

The conversation surrounding former President Joe Biden’s legacy intensified last week after excerpts from Jill Biden’s memoir, View From the East Wing, surfaced online ahead of its release. In one passage, the former first lady recalled watching Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate performance and wondering whether “we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching.”

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