Hilary McGann

stepped out of the race.

And so there's a lot of anger of saying, you know, you told us everything was fine and it clearly wasn't.

Look, I think the overall theme, what I came away from the book here is thinking the overall theme here is a marriage of a lot of love, but I think a lot of naivety as well.

And they seem to prioritize, the Biden family seems to be very tight knit, but they seem to prioritize loyalty over everything else.

And, you know, Jill Biden does do some retrospective thinking and she, you know, she does look and say,

was this a case that people were scared to tell us the truth?

Was I actually able to objectively look and be clear in my thoughts about my husband's ability or his aging?

She talks a lot about how he had, you know,

declined physically, but not mentally.

And she's very clear in saying that.

I think what was really interesting is that in the interview, and this isn't in the book, but in the interview, the first interview she did about this book, she says about the debate, she says, look, that was the first time I had seen him like that.

And I haven't seen him like that since.

And I think that caught a lot of people by surprise.

And people were saying, do you really feel that way?

Because over here in the US, Claire, a lot of Democrats feel that they were gaslit in that last election and the run up to President Biden dropping out of the race.

Because they were saying, you know, we've seen clips like this where he looks confused and we can't just, I know what the polarized society over here is so political, but we can't just constantly say, oh, Fox News edited a clip in a misleading way.

And so a lot of Democrats that I've spoken to say, stop gaslighting us.

And I think that this in one way

I can appreciate her reasoning for wanting to write a book, but it does definitely reopen old wounds.

And it raises a lot of questions about the honesty Democrats had in their approach towards voters at such a critical time.