First Lady Jill Biden warned of threats to "rights and freedoms" if her husband, President Joe Biden, lost his re-election bid this November.
Biden made her remarks during a Wednesday appearance on ABC's The View.
During her appearance, the First Lady discussed concerns over her husband's mental and physical limitations with host Joy Behar, who said she had met President Biden and disagreed with concerns over his health.
"What do we have to do to tell people that the man is competent, alert, and doing the job? It's not about his age," Behar asked before suggesting former President Donald Trump was in fact the candidate with limited mental facilities. "The other one is doddering, and doesn't remember anything, and can't put a sentence together, and has like, brain farts in the middle of a paragraph. And then they go after Joe."
The First Lady told the audience that the upcoming election was not about age, referencing Trump's age of 78 and Biden's age of 81 when the November election will be held.
"They're basically the same age," she said. "It's about character." Joy Behar rages to Jill Biden about how people call Joe Biden mentally and physically unfit for office.
She claims he's "right on top of it," "competent," and "alert" while Trump is "doddering and doesn't remember anything and can't put a sentence together and has brain farts..." pic.twitter.com/kGyDhsyVIr
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Fellow co-host Sara Haines transitioned to the upcoming June debate between Trump and President Biden, which will be hosted by CNN, saying she believed it was important to have a debate "with guardrails." Haines then asked the First Lady what the president's strategy was leading up to the debate, to which Biden noted CNN's debate did not allow for a live audience to be present, and tight time constraints for Trump and Biden to respond to moderator questions.
"They've built that in where they're gonna turn off those mics so that somebody can't ramble or scream at somebody — not that my husband would be the one doing that," she said. "I think the American people deserve a debate because you need to see your choices."
The First Lady said voters needed to see the differences between Trump and Biden, insisting Americans would see the intelligence and experience Biden possesses. "And then you're gonna see somebody who ... can't put a sentence together." Jill Biden proclaims that if another conservative gets on the Supreme Court "We will lose all of our rights." pic.twitter.com/MGKWaDISh2
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"But we cannot take things for granted," she continued, warning of the impact to the Supreme Court if Trump were allowed to appoint a fourth justice to the bench. "For God's sake. Talk about things getting worse. Can you imagine if we put any more Republicans on the Supreme Court?"
The First Lady then suggested Americans would "lose all of our rights."
"We’re talking about women’s rights, gay rights," she continued. "We will lose all our rights and freedoms.”
Trump and Biden's CNN debate is scheduled for June 27. A second debate hosted by ABC is scheduled for Sept. 10.
