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Into America

Into Joe Biden and the Women’s Vote

Into America

Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

Ms Now, Covid-19, Versant, Cultural, Social, Culture, Documentary, News, Trymaine Lee, Breonna Taylor, Black Lives Matter, Msnbc, Health, Society, Justice, News Commentary, George Floyd, Policy, History, Politics, Blm, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Will the sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden hurt his chances with women voters?

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0:00.0

The 2020 election season was thrown a bit of a curveball when the spread of coronavirus

0:11.1

across the U.S. intensified in March.

0:14.1

The Democratic field had already been shrinking, and by early April, former Vice President

0:18.8

Joe Biden was the only candidate left standing.

0:22.5

Around the same time that Biden became the apparent nominee, an allegation surfaced against

0:27.1

him that went beyond earlier reports that he made women uncomfortable.

0:32.0

On March 25, a woman named Tara Reed, alleged in the podcast interview that Biden sexually

0:37.0

assaulted her when she was a staffer on a Senate team in 1993.

0:42.6

Everything shattered in that moment because I knew like, we were alone, it was over,

0:48.4

right?

0:49.4

He wasn't trying to do anything more, but I couldn't believe it was happening.

0:52.8

It just seems surreal.

0:55.0

Biden denies the story.

0:59.7

According to a Quinnipiac pulled out this week, Joe Biden is leading President Donald

1:03.8

Trump 50-39%.

1:06.4

The margin in favor of Biden is even greater when it comes to women voters.

1:10.6

It's the first presidential election since the Me Too movement gained momentum, and the

1:15.8

race now appears to be down to two men who have both been accused of sexual assault.

1:22.8

In 2017 and 2018, many Democratic lawmakers joined the voting public in the call to believe

1:29.0

women when men in power were accused of wrongdoing.

1:36.3

Well the question is, do we value women?

1:38.1

And that's the fundamental question, do we believe women?

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