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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sanders not sure that 'one incident alone' disqualifies Biden [View all]
BY MICHAEL BURKE - 03/31/19 10:52 AM EDT
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that he's "not sure that one incident alone" disqualifies Joe Biden from running for president after former Nevada state assemblywoman Lucy Flores (D) accused the former vice president of inappropriately touching and kissing her without her consent in 2014.
Thats a decision for the vice president to make," Sanders, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said on CBS's "Face the Nation" when asked if the allegation disqualifies Biden. "Im not sure that one incident alone disqualifies anybody."
Sanders added that he has "no reason not to believe" Flores, who said in an essay published Friday in New York Magazine's The Cut that Biden touched her shoulders and kissed the back of her head before a Nevada campaign rally.
I have no reason not to believe Lucy," the Vermont senator said on Sunday. "And I think what this speaks to is the need to fundamentally change the culture of this country and to create environments feel comfortable and feel safe.
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Oh, FFS. He's saying one incident alone wouldn't disqualify Biden, all the while his supporters
highplainsdem
Mar 2019
#4
Are you kidding? Bernie knew he wasn't "standing up for Biden" on FTN when
highplainsdem
Mar 2019
#14
Those polls show a person who isn't running leading Bernie. Take him out and guess who
Autumn
Mar 2019
#15
Sniping? Which camps are sniping? Biden isn't running until he says he running. nt
Autumn
Mar 2019
#22
I believe everything she says. My comment was, she hasn't endorsed Bernie, she hasn't. nt
Autumn
Mar 2019
#19
I believe her. But I can't find in her essay where she mentioned Cristobal Alex? Maybe you can
Autumn
Mar 2019
#25
So you can't find where she mentioned him? How about where he went to work for Biden?
Autumn
Mar 2019
#30
I don't have to proceed Cha, I just used your posted tweet to point out what a gaslighting POS
Autumn
Mar 2019
#33
I think Flores is a liar . And how dare she use me to for political reasons.
Demsrule86
Mar 2019
#44
This is coming from a person working for the Biden campaign. Just thought you might want to know.
vsrazdem
Mar 2019
#54
Thanks for that, now I like her more. YMMV. The only evidence I have seen was her "friends"
Autumn
Mar 2019
#49
No he didn't. No doubt Sirota has another surrogate or right winger waiting.
Demsrule86
Mar 2019
#48
Alternate title could have been "I'm going to lie about Bernie in a passive aggressive way"
Autumn
Mar 2019
#13
I believe it's the sexualization of everything, we're fish swimming in its' waters.
Uncle Joe
Mar 2019
#8
Of course Benie's supporters already have...as he well knew when he said that "one incident alone"
highplainsdem
Mar 2019
#16
Gee, that is mighty big of you Bernie. Also mighty big of you to hire three Jill Stein supporters
still_one
Mar 2019
#27
Was BS asked about the toxic predatory culture, discrimination, abuse, harassment,
lapucelle
Mar 2019
#31
Great question perhaps this needs to be asked by the pundits she interviews with on tv
FloridaBlues
Mar 2019
#55
The real question is, does a pervasive culture of sexual violence and harassment in his own campaign
LongtimeAZDem
Mar 2019
#52
When you finish cleaning up your own disqualifyers BS we might consider listening
Thekaspervote
Apr 2019
#57