Editor’s note: This article contains a detailed description of the sexual assault on Tara Reade said, Joe Biden committed against her.

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A Tara Reade said, high school in 1993, then-Sen. Joe Biden pressed her up against the wall in the United States Senate, I kissed her neck and hair, slid his hand under her shirt, then used his knee to spread her legs and penetrated with his her finger. He denied the allegations Friday: “I’m saying unequivocally it’s never, never happened.”
The country you have spent four years in a messy reckoning over sexual assault, harassment, and accountability. Every high-profile case has been argued on its own terms, and Biden”s will be no different. But past instances of sexual assault allegations in parliament have shown that it is the party officials, who help decide whether a politician weathers the storm. If precedent tells us anything, it’s that the establishment Democrats will help you determine whether Reade”s account, you will be any impact on Biden”s history. In politics, believing society is complicated.
He isn’t a stranger to accusations that he’s made the women uncomfortable. Last year, a number of women alleged that he invaded their personal space in the way that felt inappropriate, if not sex — though that, some felt, his touching was, indeed, sexual. Read was among those who came forward with an account, though, that at the time, she did not tell her allegation that He had pressed her against the wall.
The public reaction to the initial allegations, which I was muted. The The Morning Consult/the Politico poll of Democratic voters found that half of respondents said the allegations would have no bearing on whether they’d decide to support Biden, and 32 percent of Democrats said that he hadn’t behaved inappropriately at all. The Hill and HarrisX went to the poll around the same time that found that 62 percent of Democrats said the allegations shouldn’t preclude his presidential ambitions.
Of course, Reade”s new allegations are quite different from the ones He faced last year. Vaginal penetration under the falls The Justice Department’s definition of monkfish.
In many ways, He is in a precarious political position with that of his Democratic base. The party you have squared itself firmly behind the united states in women,” the ethos of the MeToo movement, and the Democratic voters have consistently showed less tolerance for sexual misconduct and assault. The The Pew Research Center’s survey from: 2018 found that 62 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents thought that the men getting away with sexual harassment was a major problem, and 60 percent said the same about women not being believed when they lodge the harassment claims. The numbers were about the single, the share of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents those who said the issues were the major problems.
There was a similar partisan gap when Christine Blasey, Ford and others, the accused, mr. Justice Brett Kavanaugh of the past of sexual misconduct. An NPR/Ipsos survey conducted in October of 2018 at the earliest, a month after the Kavanaugh’to confirm in, found 75 percent of Republicans thought the MeToo movement had gone too far, but only 21 percent of Democrats thought so.
The question, of course, is whether numbers like those will hold when a Democrat is involved. For example, the The Washington Post co.-Schar-School poll conducted shortly after the Kavanaugh on the found that 76 percent of Republicans were concerned that the men could be accused unfairly of sexual assault. Only 34 percent of Democrats felt the same. Theoretically, that could mean trouble for Biden.
But Democrats’ principled stance on sexual misconduct can soften as well as little — or at least to get more complicated — when it comes to members of their own party. Sen. The Franken resigned in 2017 after the Leeann Tweeden alleged, I forcibly kissed her during your USE of the tour and a photo appeared to show him groping her while she slept?”. In November of 2017, or 59 percent of the Democratic survey’s respondents in the The Morning Consult/the Politico poll said elected officials — generically as — should resign if faced with the great american allegations of misconduct. But only 49 percent of Democrats in the same survey, were in favor of Franken, no, resigning. The KSTP/SurveyUSA poll of Minnesotans, from the same time found 34 percent of Democrats said he should remain in office, and 14 percent thought I should resign, and 46 percent thought I should wait for the results of an ethics investigation.
But while the Democratic constituents waffled, Democratic elected officials were more decisive. In early December the year 2017, a group of Franken”s Democratic Senate colleagues, led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, demanded that I resign. Franken did so a day laterhis fate is sealed by his colleagues’ loss of confidence.
Franken”s case shows that what you can truly sound the death knell of a politician’s run is the loss of support from party insiders, the condemnation of one’s peers is a damning thing, in this line of work. After the “Access Hollywood,” the tape revealed that Donald Trump had bragged about making unwanted advances on women of color, while Republicans, including the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, abandoned him. But I have maintained the backing of powerful allies like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and, luckily for Trump, and his “scandal” broke close enough to Election Day that Republicans had a few viable choices to replace him.
So far, Democrats seem to be following a similar playbook, perhaps because He is running against Trump. The president has been accused of sexual assault — including a monk — by the 17th please. Even if the accusations against Biden are true, the Democrats might be willing to rationalize voting for him if they perceive him as the lesser of two evils.
Democratic officials have closed posts, since He even in the Reade”s allegations have been the received further attention and reporting. When asked about Reade”s allegations, Then you said,“I support Vice President Biden.”
The political cover that He already built for himself by declaring that he would choose a female vice president — a consolation prize of sorts for voters disappointed by their white, male de facto nominee is to pay off all his campaign’s struggles Reade”s allegations. Potential vice-presidential picks have so far not come out against Biden. Sen. Amy Klobuchar said, “I think this case has been investigated, and talked about Biden”s record on helping victims of domestic abuse. Another senator-in-the-vice-presidential-race Kamala Harris said, Read “has the right to tell her story and that she could only speak to the Joe Biden I know. He’s been a lifelong fighter, in terms of stopping violence against women.” Stacey Abramsanother vice presidential contender, said, “I know, Joe Biden, and I think he’s telling the truth and did not this happen.” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, herself the survivor of damnation and another name that has been batted about the vice in the presidential speculation, was slightly more circumspect when asked about that Read: “Well, I think women should be able to tell their stories. I think that it is important that these allegations are vetted, from the media to the beyond. And I think that, you know, it is something that no one takes lightly,” Whitmer said. “But it is also something that is, you know, people. And so it’s hard to give you a great insight into the death that for not knowing more about the situation.”
The Biden campaign sent out the talking points this week it is the surrogates who will need to address and the Read the question. “Here’s the bottom line: the Vice-President, Joe Biden, you spent over 40 years in public life-for 36 years in the Senate; And 7 Senate may 2 in the previous presidential runs, the two vice-presidency may be, and 8 years in the White House. There has never been a complaint, allegation, hint or rumor of any impropriety or inappropriate conduct like this regarding him – ever.”
The plan for now, it would appear, is to deny, deny, deny and encourage Democratic officials to do the same. In the political world, that calculus isn’t half-bad and that has worked to great effect, President Trump, it should be noted, you continue to deny all 17 of the assault claims against him.