Hilary McGann
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Podcast Appearances
Yes, well, listen, it's the most talked about book in the US this week, without a doubt.
I expect it to be on all the bestsellers next week.
And I have to say, I listened to the book in one day.
It's a very easy listen and it's fascinating.
It's also, I always find it really interesting to hear from the perspective of somebody that was in the White House at the time.
There's been so many books covered about that last presidential election.
This is the first time we're hearing directly from someone
the former first lady, Jill Biden, on what she thought.
It's been reported about and speculated about many times how she felt at the time.
And you're right, this has opened old wounds amongst a lot of Democrats.
And she writes in the book that she thought during that infamous June 2024 debate that her husband, President Biden, was having a medical event.
She later said in an interview that she thought it was specifically that he might have been having a stroke.
And a lot of Democrats are now saying, well, why is there such a discrepancy between what you're saying now that you felt at the time and how the reaction was?
And I'm not just talking about in the immediate aftermath of the debate.
You're not going to.
And I can understand and I can appreciate as a wife, you're not going to get out there publicly and say it was a bad night.
However, we do have to remember that there was nearly a month that went by of them hanging on and saying, I'm staying in the race.
I'm going to run.
I can do a second term in office.
before he ultimately, after a lot of pressure from Democrats,