South Africa: Biden Offers No Apology for Touching But Vows to Change Style By Bloomberg
“I get it, I get it,” Biden said in a two-minute web video posted Wednesday afternoon. “I hear what they’re saying.”
Biden, 76, has been expected to announce this month that he’ll make his third run for the Democratic presidential nomination. He gave no indication in the video of his intentions. Lucy Flores, a former Nevada assembly member, said Biden smelled her hair and delivered “a slow kiss” to the top of her head at a 2014 campaign event when she was running for state lieutenant governor.
At least three other women have made public statements expressing their discomfort with how Biden touched them since Flores first came forward in a New York magazine column published Friday. None of the women have said that they felt Biden’s actions were a form of sexual assault or harassment.
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