Former first lady Jill Biden is speaking out about her husband, former President Joe Biden, and his decision to exit the 2024 presidential race following mounting pressure from Democrats, in a new memoir set to be released in June, the Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday.
The former first lady told the AP that the memoir would be a “reflection of my four years as first lady.”
Her memoir, “View from the East Wing: A Memoir,” will be published June 2.
“It was kind of cathartic for me to write it, and I wrote about all the, you know, sometimes painful — but other times, most of it really beautiful moments that Joe and I shared during his presidency,” she told the AP.
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The former first lady said in a video posted to Instagram that she wanted to “set the record straight.”
She added, “Parts of this story have been told, but not all of it.”
“I have put things in perspective,” the former first lady told the AP. She said the book offers a “more balanced view” of her husband’s time in office.
Joe Biden exited the 2024 White House race that July, just months before the election, after weeks of pressure from members of his own party following a rough debate performance against then-candidate Donald Trump.
The former president and first lady haven’t spoken on the decision much, but have fired back at questions about his health.
The former first couple spoke to “The View” in May 2025.
“They are wrong,” Joe Biden said of those who questioned his health. “There’s nothing to sustain that, number one.”
“Number two, you know, think of what we left with” he continued. “We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection when I started, not since the Civil War. We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we — well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, a million people dying. And we’re also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues, which I won’t go into in the interest of time.”
Jill Biden targeted books detailing her husband’s health issues, saying that “the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us. And they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean, he’d get up. He’d put in a full day, and then at night he would — I’d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings. Working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop.”
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Joe Biden endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place at the top of the ticket the same day he decided to exit the race. Harris went on to lose to President Donald Trump in November after running a historically short 107-day campaign.
Harris has written her own account of the campaign, a memoir titled “107 Days,” which also details her conversations with the former president and her feeling that leaving the decision in the hands of Biden was reckless.
