Joe Biden has tried to move past an allegation that he assaulted a female staffer decades ago by not talking about it. It isn't working. Some Democrats worry the story line will fester into a much bigger problem for him and the party if he keeps ignoring it.
Joe Biden’s campaign adamantly denied it and then stopped talking about it. His surrogates get uncomfortable when it comes up — and it keeps coming up. And his aides insist the media have already litigated the mess and exonerated the former vice president, which is not entirely true.sexually assaulted a young staffer
“It is clear there is a lot of pressure and Biden has to personally and convincingly deny this,” said Robert Shrum, a veteran Democratic strategist and director of the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future. “I think the guy is innocent of all this. But the pressures are now such that he’s got to respond.”All of this puts Democrats in an awkward place as they confront allegations from Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who says Biden cornered and assaulted her in 1993.
In the 2004 election, Democratic nominee John F. Kerry’s flat-footed defense of his Vietnam War record against accusations by Swift Boaters for Truth so tarnished the candidate that a new political term was coined for creating doubt: “swift boating.”Some Democratic strategists worry Reade’s account could also snowball if Biden doesn’t move quickly to quell the controversy.
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