Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has remained silent amid new reporting on allegation of 1993 assault
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is facing growing pressure to publicly address an allegation of sexual assault made by Tara Reade, a former aide to his Senate office.
The former vice-president has remained silent about the accusation, a position that is seen as increasingly untenable in the wake of new reporting. Many major Democratic women’s organizations and prominent feminists have also declined to comment publicly on Reade’s claim that Biden, then a senator from Delaware, assaulted her in 1993.
Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said in a statement this month that “this absolutely did not happen”, but she has not commented further.
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