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Good morning! It\u2019s Danielle Battaglia<\/b> with another edition of Under the Dome<\/b> focused on the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Read more Who is Chuck Edwards? A look at the NC lawmaker under investigation<\/a><\/p>\n

But let\u2019s talk about former President Joe Biden<\/b>.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday afternoon, CBS News<\/b> released a short clip of an interview of former First Lady Jill Biden<\/b><\/a> reflecting on the debate between her husband and President Donald Trump<\/b> in June 2024.<\/p>\n

The full interview aired Sunday.<\/p>\n

But the clip was surprising enough that most major networks turned to cover it Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened,\u201d she said. \u201cAs I watched it, I thought, \u2018Oh, my God, he\u2019s having a stroke.\u2019 And it scared me to death.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that she had never seen her husband that way before or after.<\/p>\n

The reporters around me in The News & Observer\u2019s newsroom turned and looked at me as our newsroom televisions lit up with this new statement.<\/p>\n

Let me give you a peek behind the curtain from our reporting the night of the debate and the day after.<\/p>\n

Knowing Biden would travel straight from Atlanta, where the debate was held, to Raleigh, to hold a rally the next day,<\/a> we wanted to be prepared with a story that next morning to prep readers for Biden\u2019s local appearance.<\/p>\n

The gist of it: Biden would be the first president since 2010<\/a> to stay overnight in North Carolina. We would update the story in the morning with highlights from the debate before his rally began.<\/p>\n

But you never read that article.<\/p>\n

As editor Jessica Banov<\/b> and I watched the debate with millions of other people, we saw Biden on stage looking dazed, confused, his voice hoarse and his answers trailing off, sometimes incoherent.<\/p>\n

We scrapped our original story and worked long past midnight, knowing that Biden\u2019s next-day appearance in Raleigh would become a high-pressure test<\/a> on whether his campaign would survive.<\/p>\n

But as we were writing that story, the first lady was on stage in Atlanta, praising her husband\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJoe, you did such a great job,\u201d she said.<\/a> \u201cYou answered every question. You knew all the answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Raleigh, she said<\/a>, \u201cWhat you saw last night on the debate stage was Joe Biden, a president with integrity and character, who told the truth. And Donald Trump told lie, after lie, after lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden told the crowd he wasn\u2019t as young as he used to be<\/a>, but promised he could do the job.<\/p>\n

And Jill Biden went on to tell people that she told her husband not to be defined by those 90 minutes.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the month that followed, reports centered on Jill Biden being the one calling the shots on whether her husband\u2019s campaign continued.<\/p>\n

As we all now know, it would take more than a month before the president ended his reelection campaign<\/a> and passed the reins over to Vice President Kamala Harris<\/b>, leaving her 107 days to campaign against Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump came out victorious.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re like the reporters around me asking why she is coming out with these statements now: she wrote a book.<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for now. Thanks for reading and supporting local journalism.<\/p>\n

Be kind to each other. If you have any feedback or tips for this edition of the newsletter, feel free to reach out to me directly at dbattaglia@mcclatchydc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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