{"id":200179,"date":"2019-12-22T06:43:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/joe-bidens-press-secretary-diagnosed-with-metastatic-lung-cancer.html"},"modified":"2019-12-22T06:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:43:04","slug":"joe-bidens-press-secretary-diagnosed-with-metastatic-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/joe-bidens-press-secretary-diagnosed-with-metastatic-lung-cancer.html","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden&#8217;s press secretary diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/1e493_thumb-AP-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 21\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 21<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 21 are here. Check out what&#8217;s clicking on Foxnews.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Joe Biden<\/a>&#8216;s national press secretary, TJ\u00a0Ducklo, announced on Saturday that\u00a0he has been diagnosed with metastatic lung <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">cancer<\/a>, but said he will continue to work through the rest of the <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">2020 presidential<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Ducklo shared a series of tweets explaining why he has been absent from the campaign trail as of late and said he will be starting his treatment on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some upsetting news to share  explanation for why I\u2019ve been MIA recently: after a bunch of tests, I\u2019ve been diagnosed [with] metastatic lung cancer. Which sucks a lot. I\u2019m starting treatment Monday,  my doctors &#8212; who have been incredible &#8212; believe we can get this into remission,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The outpouring of support and encouragement I\u2019ve already received from family, colleagues\u00a0and friends has been overwhelming in the best way, and has already made me feel like I have an army behind me to fight this piece of shit disease,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">JOE BIDEN PROMISES TO &#8216;CURE CANCER&#8217; IF ELECTED PRESIDENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was never a question whether I\u2019d continue working during treatment &#8212; working for Joe Biden and this campaign has been the best, most important experience of my life,&#8221; Ducklo added.<\/p>\n<p>Biden sent a message of support to Ducklo on Saturday and said he and his entire family would be there for support, to help him with whatever he needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TJ: Stay strong. Me, Jill, and the whole Biden family are with you,&#8221; the former vice president wrote.\u00a0&#8220;Not just in spirit &#8212; for anything. You have the right attitude. You are going to beat this and when you do, we are going to be there to celebrate. Love you, and we&#8217;re here with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">BEAU BIDEN, SON OF VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, DIES OF BRAIN CANCER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ducklo thanked Biden for the encouragement and said he looks forward to helping him cure the disease after they win in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you, sir. Having you and\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">@TeamJoe<\/a>\u00a0behind me makes me feel like I have superpowers. And when you\u2019re president, we\u2019ll cure this horrible disease for good. Xoxo,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Biden <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">lost his son<\/a> Beau to brain cancer after he developed a glioblastoma. Beau was 46-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/yxAKXO2aOk8\/joe-bidens-press-secretary-cancer<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 21 Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 21 are here. Check out what&#8217;s clicking on Foxnews.com Joe Biden&#8216;s national press secretary, TJ\u00a0Ducklo, announced on Saturday that\u00a0he has been diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer, but said he will continue to work through the rest of the 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-200179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}