Jill Biden says she’s unbothered by Democrats’ response to her memoir. In a backstage green room at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia on June 9, she flaps her mascaraed blue eyes and shakes her head, brushing off the last week of criticism, which was largely focused on the former First Lady’s admission that she feared her husband was having a stroke after his disastrous 2024 debate performance, despite publicly defending it at the time. “I don't want to reopen the old wounds either.