Does Kamala Harris Still Believe Joe Biden's Accusers? By Johnathan Jones
Published August 12, 2020 at 8:24am
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden chose Sen. Kamala Harris of California as his running mate Tuesday in a decision that shocked few.
The former vice president had pigeonholed himself into choosing a woman to run alongside him and had faced pressure to choose a black woman.
Harris checks both of those boxes and is well-known, thanks to her 2018 attempt at smearing then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on live TV and her poor debate performances last year, which helped to end her short-lived presidential bid.
Although she failed in 2019 to gain any traction with Democratic voters, the party and Biden crowned Harris, and she is being hailed as a historic candidate despite her shortcomings and her checkered history as a prosecutor.
Biden, who has a checkered history of his own with regard to his interactions with women, had few options with regard to choosing a running mate, and the campaign must have seen something in Harris that they thought would help him in November.
But there are many problems facing the new tandem, including the fact that Harris declared last year that she believed the women who had directly accused Biden of inappropriate behavior.
Biden’s career-long propensity for putting his hands and his nose near women and girls led him to trouble in Nevada in April 2019.
Democratic state lawmaker Lucy Flores described in New York magazine’s The Cut how comfortable Biden made her:
“I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, ‘I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual f—? Why is the vice- president of the United States smelling my hair?’ He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused.”
Other women shared similar stories, and, of course, video evidence of Biden’s handsy habits is well documented online.
As the pressure mounted, Biden issued a non-apology apology, saying, “I will be more mindful about respecting personal space in the future.”
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Harris was asked to weigh in on Biden’s alleged inappropriate behavior during a campaign stop in Nevada in November 2019.
The senator, who would also essentially equate Biden to a “ segregationist” later that year, did not simply state that she wanted to hear more facts or that she wouldn’t discredit the women until she’d had more information.
She said she believed the women who accused the former vice president of touching them inappropriately.
“I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it,” Harris said, according to The Hill.
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Poster Comment:
When I lived in Chicago I was in this bar room named Carol's Pub.
Two black guys walked in and tried to buy beer with the old paper food stamps. The bar tender hollered, "GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"
One of the black guys started to shoot off his mouth. The doorman was this stocky little guy with a beard and a biker chain for a belt. He knocked that guy out with one punch.
The other one ran for the door. The doorman hit him in the back of the head. He fell up against the door knob and they threw the both out in the street.
There were three Mexicans that sat at the bar. They called me Caballero Grande since I always dressed nice and never got in any fights.