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Assault allegation puts Joe Biden — and the Democratic Party — in a bind

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.




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At Joe Biden’s Urging, Airbnb, WeWork, And Others Commit To Help Cancer Patients

The companies are committing to find ways to use their businesses to help patients with cancer.




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In administering the COVID-19 stimulus, the president’s role model should be Joe Biden

As America plunges into recession, Congress and President Donald Trump have approved a series of aid packages to assist businesses, the unemployed, and others impacted by COVID-19. The first three aid packages will likely be supplemented by at least a fourth package, as the nation’s leaders better understand the depth and reach of the economic…

       




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'It happened all at once': Tara Reade details assault claim against Joe Biden in Megyn Kelly interview

Former staffer discusses allegation in in-depth interview with the former Fox News and NBC host

Tara Reade repeated her allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden in an in-depth interview with Megyn Kelly released on Friday, answering questions on who she shared her story with and why she supported the former vice president publicly in the past.

Reade has accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, when she worked as an aide in his Senate office. She told Kelly, a former Fox News and NBC host who memorably sparred with Trump during the 2016 campaign over his treatment of women, that Biden pushed her against the wall in a Senate hallway and digitally penetrated her against her will.

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Digging Joe Biden out of his basement 

Coronavirus is depriving the former vice-president of a real campaign




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'You cannot win 'em all': Bernie Sanders shrugs off Joe Biden's South Carolina win at Virginia rally

Sen. Bernie Sanders acknowledged 'you cannot win 'em all' as he congratulated former Vice President Joe Biden on his South Carolina victory Saturday.




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Amy Klobuchar QUITS presidential race and endorses Joe Biden

Klobuchar and Buttigieg announced their backing for Biden within minutes of each other, showing a united front to try to defeat Bernie Sanders, the day before 14 states vote in Super Tuesday.




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Pete Buttigieg endorses Joe Biden as moderates go all-out to stop Bernie Sanders

Joe Biden snagged a trio of endorsements from his formal rivals in a show of force designed to give him momentum heading into the critical Super Tuesday contests and stop Bernie Sanders from winning.




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Joe Biden tells rally to vote 'Super THURSDAY' and botches line from the Declaration of Independence

Joe Biden, 77, was speaking at a campaign rally in Houston, Texas ahead of Super Tuesday voting today that will decide a third of the Democratic delegates on offer.




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Joe Biden gets a final poll bounce as 14 states vote for Super Tuesday

Democratic presidential candidates will face their biggest challenge yet as voters from 14 states and American Samoa cast their votes on what in politics is called 'Super Tuesday.'




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Joe Biden WINS Virginia with Bernie Sanders safely taking Vermont 

Biden staged a dramatic comeback on Super Tuesday winning Virginia then eight more states. Sanders took California but Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren both look doomed.




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Marianne Williamson describes Joe Biden's campaign comeback as the result of a 'coup'

Texan author Marianne Williamson, who ended her campaign for president earlier this year, blasted pundits who claimed Joe Biden's campaign was a 'resurrection'.




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Bernie Sanders drops new TV ad 'narrated' by Barack Obama after Joe Biden's Super Tuesday sweep

Bernie Sanders released a new TV ad Wednesday featuring a 'narration' from Barack Obama after Joe Biden's Super Tuesday sweep put the pressure on the Vermont senator's campaign.




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Michigan becomes next all-out presidential battleground between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders

Joe Biden holds a 13-point lead over Bernie in new Reuters / Ipsos national poll, as the two candidates take their presidential nomination fight to two key midwest battlegrounds.




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Joe Biden crushes Bernie Sanders with crucial victory in Michigan

Joe Biden celebrated his crushing victory over Bernie Sanders in Michigan - and in Mississippi, Missouri and Idaho too - by thanking him for running and hinting it was time for him to quit.




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Joe Biden's campaign has refunded a donation made by disgraced comedian Louis C.K

Comedian Louis C.K, whose real name is Louis Szekely, donated $2,800 to Joe Biden's campaign on March 4. It has since been refunded to Szekely, accused of sexual assaulting five women.




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Protesters slam Joe Biden's record on immigration as they interrupt the Democratic debate

Protesters from RAICES Action, a prominent immigrant rights group, interrupted Biden's closing remarks near the end of Wednesday's two-hour televised debate at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas




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Tara Reade tells Megyn Kelly she was left traumatized by her alleged sexual assault by Joe Biden

In a newly-released interview with former Fox News and NBC News host Megyn Kelly, Joe Biden sexual assault accuser Tara Reade, 56, said that the alleged attack 'shattered' her.




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Joe Biden shocks New Hampshire crowd by asked them to imagine 'if Obama had been assassinated'

The stark declaration came as part of a meandering discussion at the closing of a town hall meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College, which also featured mentions of school shootings.




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Joe Biden mocks his gaffes to Stephen Colbert

Joe Biden on Wednesday mocked his recent spat of gaffes - including his miscounting of a story about awarding a medal to a soldier in Afghanistan - in an interview with Stephen Colbert.




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Brother of Sandy Hook victim calls out Joe Biden for 'factual inaccuracy'

JT Lewis, whose six-year-old brother Jesse was one of the 26 people killed in the Connecticut mass shooting, eviscerated the 2020 hopeful for making the claim in a new video released earlier this week.




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Bernie Sanders demands that Joe Biden apologize to all POC on his campaign and co-chair Nina Turner

Sanders called on Biden to apologize not only to Nina Turner but also to all 'people of color supporting our campaign' after comments Hilary Rosen made on a Thursday ep. of Cuomo Prime Time.




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Intelligence officials are probing whether Russia is targeting Joe Biden

U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating whether Russia is targeting Joe Biden in the 2020 election by promoting the controversy in the Ukraine over his and Hunter Biden's roles there. 




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Tara Reade claims Joe Biden said, 'I want to f--- you' during alleged sexual assault

Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for then-Sen. Joe Biden who recently accused him of sexual assault, told Megyn Kelly in an exclusive interview that Biden said, "I want to f--- you," during the alleged assault in 1993."He said it low, and I was pushing away, and I remember my knee hurting because our knees — he had opened my legs with his knee — and our kneecaps clashed, so I felt that sharp pain," Reade said, while recounting how Biden allegedly pushed her against a wall and penetrated her with his fingers.Reade has detailed her experience in multiple interviews with Business Insider, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the podcaster Katie Halper — who first reported the allegations.Her allegations have also been corroborated by a former neighbor, who told Business Insider that




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The accusation against Joe Biden has Democrats rediscovering the value of due process

75647493Presumptions of guilt do not serve justice, they inevitably lead to false accusations and ruined lives.That's something Democrats are rediscovering now that Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, faces a sexual assault allegation.In the #MeToo era, "Believe Women" was meant to create a societal change that women would be taken seriously when they reported abuse.But it was taken literally by some Democrats, including prominent lawmakers, such as Biden himself.Due process is not exclusively for the popular. It's for both the guilty and the wrongly accused, and it's the foundation that gives just verdicts their weight. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Justice requires a code.




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Lindsey Graham defends decision to investigate former colleague Joe Biden and his son

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham called former VP Joe Biden a 'fine man' after firing off a letter to the State Department seeking documents on Biden and his son Hunter.




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Joe Biden gets back on the campaign trail in Iowa with new endorser John Kerry after

Former Vice President Joe Biden continues his 'No Malarkey' bus tour in Iowa Friday - a day after getting in a heated confrontation with an 83-year old voter he called a 'damn liar.'




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Joe Biden says he will defy subpoena to testify in Trump's Senate impeachment trial

The former vice president told an Iowa editorial board that he would not comply if subpoenaed in an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump because it would detract from from his own actions.




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Joe Biden says there's 'no legal basis' for Republicans to subpoena him and son Hunter

Joe Biden tweeted on Saturday that 'unlike Donald Trump and Mike Pence,' he has 'always complied with a lawful order' and 'cooperated with legitimate congressional oversight requests.'




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Graham urged Rudy Giuiliani to vet intel on Joe Biden, his son Hunter and alleged Ukraine corruption

The Republican senator from South Carolina is concerned that the president's former lawyer vet his research from sources known for peddling Russian conspiracy theories.




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Joe Biden says he would have a Republican running mate in 2020: 'I can't think of one right now!'

Joe Biden said Monday he would consider putting a Republican on his ticket if he won the Democratic nomination in 2020. 'I would, but I can't think of one now,' Biden said when asked of the prospect.




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Joe Biden shoots down Dem plan to offer Hunter Biden as witness in exchange for John Bolton

Joe Biden shot down a plan for a witness deal in Donald Trump's impeachment trial in which Republicans would get to question Hunter Biden and they would get to quiz John Bolton.




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Rudy Giuliani blows past his own deadline to provide 'evidence' that Joe Biden was corrupt

The president's personal counsel - who is not part of his impeachment defense in the Senate - had told Fox News he would offer evidence at noon Friday, but his new podcast had no new facts.




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Donald Trump promises to hammer Joe Biden over his Ukraine business dealings if he wins nomination

President Trump said he would use recent news a Ukrainian court ordered an investigation into Joe Biden as ammunition if he were to become the Democrat presidential candidate.




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Joe Biden shocks New Hampshire crowd by asked them to imagine 'if Obama had been assassinated'

The stark declaration came as part of a meandering discussion at the closing of a town hall meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College, which also featured mentions of school shootings.




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Why Barack Obama refused to endorse Joe Biden is revealed in new book

The 'bromance' between Barack Obama and Joe Biden dissipated in the post-White House years, according to an upcoming book Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership.




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Barack Obama warned in private conversations that Joe Biden 'doesn't have it'

Barack Obama has privately indicated he doesn't have faith his former vice president could win the Democratic nomination in 2020, Politico reported.




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Joe Biden says he's open to nominating former President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court

At a campaign event in Washington, Iowa, on Saturday, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would consider nominating Obama to the Supreme Court.




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Nancy Pelosi becomes latest high-profile Democrat to endorse Joe Biden

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the latest high-profile Democrat to endorse Joe Biden, the party's presumptive nominee for president of the United States.




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Dancing pictures emerge of the woman accusing Joe Biden of assault

Perez likened the claims to 'the Hillary emails because there was nothing there'. He said Sunday Biden had already been through a comprehensive investigation.




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Joe Biden 'confuses Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden' during rally in Iowa

The former Vice President, 77, reportedly made the gaffe in Des Moines last weekend while responding to a voter who had concern's about his foreign policy decisions.




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Joe Biden claims he was arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela

Biden, 77, first told the story at a campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina on February 11, as he tried to shake off defeat in New Hampshire, and has repeated it twice more.




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Joe Biden finally admits he WASN'T arrested trying to visit Nelson Mandela

Biden, 77, first told the story at a campaign event in Columbia, S.C., as he tried to shake off defeat in New Hampshire, and has repeated it twice more during outreach to black voters.




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'I WASN'T arrested in South Africa,' Joe Biden finally admits

He walked back the much-scrutinized claim on CNN , saying instead that he was separated from members of the Congressional Black Caucus by 'Afrikaners with guns.'




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Saturday Night Live mock Joe Biden's campaign blunders hours after victory in South Carolina primary

Guest host John Mulaney posed as Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden in the show's cold open, parodying a White House press conference on the coronavirus.




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Trump campaign to launch advertising blitz after he erupted 'I'm not f***ing losing to Joe Biden'

Donald Trump's reelection campaign will release a nationwide ad Sunday touting his response to the coronavirus pandemic then a second wave of ads will issue attacks on Joe Biden.




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Trump claims Joe Biden could face MORE women 'coming out'

President Donald Trump on Friday predicted more accusers would come out against Joe Biden and said he was 'sticking up' for the former vice president. 




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Joe Biden turns podcaster from his social-isolation basement

Former Vice President Joe Biden debuted his new podcast from his Delaware home, interviewing former White House aide Ron Klain, who has bashed the Trump administration's coronavirus response.




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Joe Biden tells questioner he would put Michelle Obama on the ticket 'in a heartbeat'

Former Vice President Joe Biden rallied with supporters in South Carolina, where he fielded a question about whether he would put Michelle Obama on the ticket.