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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former Vice President <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> vehemently denied an <keyword id="90359" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="allegation">allegation</keyword> that he sexually assaulted a former Senate staffer, <keyword id="9130885" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tara-reade">Tara Reade</keyword>, during a Friday interview on <keyword id="221370" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="MSNBC">MSNBC</keyword>'s <keyword id="1739098" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Morning-Joe">Morning Joe</keyword>.</li><li>"No, it is not true," Biden said. "I'm saying unequivocally: it never happened."</li><li>In a statement released shortly before the interview, Biden called for the Secretary of the Senate to ask the National Archives to release the complaint Reade says she filed back in 1993.</li><li>Earlier this week, Insider was the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4">first to report an account from Reade's former neighbor</a> corroborating details of her allegation against Biden that she shared at the time.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>In his first interview addressing the subject, former Vice President Joe Biden denied an allegation from a former Senate staffer, Tara Reade, that he sexually assaulted her in 1993. "No, it is not true. I'm saying unequivocally: it never happened," Biden said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe".Just before the interview, Biden called on the National Archives to release the complaint Reade says she filed back in 1993. "I'm confident there is nothing, no one that I'm aware of filed a complaint, no one in my office at the time is aware of any such request or complaint," Biden said on Morning Joe. "I'm not worried about it at all. If there's a complaint, that's [the National Archives] where it would be."Reade alleged that there could be records of her complaint in the documents from Biden's decades in the Senate that he archived at the University of Delaware, but Biden said those papers contained no personnel files.Biden also denied having any non-disclosure agreements with anyone. "Look, from the very beginning, believing women means taking claims seriously, look into it, vet it," Biden said. "Women should always be heard and have their claims vigorously investigated.In the interview, Mika Brzezinski of "Morning Joe" pressed Biden on whether he stood by his comments during the 2018 confirmation battle over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, that if a woman comes into the public eye with a serious allegation, the "essence" of it is likely true. "Look, women are to be believed given the benefit of the doubt, if they come forward and say something that happened to them, they should start the presumption that they're telling the truth," he responded. "Then you have to look at the circumstances and the facts. And the facts of this case do not add up. And there's so many inconsistencies in what's been said in this case, just look at the facts. I assure you, this did not happen."Earlier this week, Insider was the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4">first to report an account from Reade's former neighbor</a> corroborating details of her allegation against Biden that she shared at the time.Reade's ex-neighbor Lynda LaCasse told Insider that in the mid-90s, Reade told her Biden assaulted her while the two lived in the same apartment complex. Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-denies-tara-reades-allegation-in-morning-joe-interview-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

'It never happened': Joe Biden denies allegation he sexually assaulted former staffer Tara Reade

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9130885" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tara-reade">Tara Reade</keyword>, who has accused <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> of sexually assaulting her while she worked as a staffer in his Senate office in 1993, expressed her desire for Biden to drop out of the race in a new interview.</li><li>In a sit down with former Fox News anchor <keyword id="1739106" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Megyn-Kelly">Megyn Kelly</keyword>, Reade said that Biden "should not be running on character," and later added, "I wish he would" drop out.</li><li>Biden has denied the assault ever took place. He told MSNBC last week that "it never happened."</li><li>In a lengthy statement, Biden also called on the National Archives to release any record of a complaint Reade might have made, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-national-archives-tara-reade-documents-2020-5">but the Archives confirmed to Insider they would not have such records.</a> A complaint by Reade from 1993, if made, would be governed by Senate rules — which would prohibit their release.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer for Joe Biden who recently accused him of sexual assault, has called for him to drop out of the race.In a <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1258483624648769537">sit-down interview with Megyn Kelly</a> published Thursday, Reade said that Biden "should not be running on character," and clarified that she wished he would drop out of the 2020 campaign."I want to say, you and I were there, Joe Biden, please step forward and be held accountable," Reade said. "You should not be running on character for the president of the United States."When Kelly followed up to ask if Reade wanted him to withdraw, she replied, "I wish he would. But he won't, but I wish he would."In multiple interviews with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tara-reade-files-criminal-complaint-against-joe-biden-2020-4">Insider</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html">The New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sexual-assault-allegation-by-former-biden-senate-aide-emerges-in-campaign-draws-denial/2020/04/12/bc070d66-7067-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html">The Washington Post</a>, and the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story">podcaster Katie Halper</a> — who first reported the allegations — Reade has said that in the spring or summer of 1993, Biden assaulted her while she was a staffer working in his Senate office.Reade alleged that she met with Biden in a semiprivate hallway to deliver a duffel bag and once there, he pushed her against a wall, put his hand up her skirt and digitally penetrated her. When she rebuffed his behavior, Reade claims Biden told her "Aw man, I heard you liked me," and when she resisted, Biden told her, "You're nothing to me."A former neighbor of Reade's, Lynda LaCasse, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4">told Insider that Reade had told her about an assault in 1995 or 1996.</a> "I remember her saying, here was this person that she was working for and she idolized him," LaCasse said. "And he kind of put her up against a wall. And he put his hand up her skirt and he put his fingers inside her. She felt like she was assaulted, and she really didn't feel there was anything she could do."Reade has said she reported other forms of harassment she experienced to Biden's senior staff and Senate human resources, but not the alleged assault. When Reade complained about alleged harassment, she claims she faced career retaliation.She has called for Biden to open his Senate archives currently residing at the University of Delaware for possible records of her complaints, but Biden has said records would not be available there.Biden has emphatically denied the assault allegation, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-denies-tara-reades-allegation-in-morning-joe-interview-2020-5">telling MSNBC last week that "it never happened."</a>The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html">New York Times</a> spoke to "several people" who worked in Biden's office at the time as part of their investigation into Reade's claim and reported that none recalled hearing about such an incident or witnessed similar behavior from Biden.Instead, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-national-archives-tara-reade-documents-2020-5">Biden has called for the National Archives to release any records that might shed light on a complaint made by Reade.</a> But the Archives told Insider they would not have the documents, and that employee complaints filed to the Senate's Office of Fair Employment Practices in the 1990s would be controlled by Senate rules — which dictate that they couldn't be released until 2043.Last week, Biden wrote to the secretary of the senate asking for the office to search for and release any complaints; earlier this week the office <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-tara-reade-complaint-secretary-of-senate/">rejected Biden's request.</a>In an earlier statement from the campaign, Biden's communications director Kate Bedingfield said that "women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims."She added, "We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false."On Thursday, Reade told Kelly "There's a measure of hypocrisy of the campaign saying its safe, it's not been safe.She said she had been attacked on social media and by Biden's supporters."His campaign is taking this position that they want all women to be able to speak safely," Reade said. "I have not experienced that."On Thursday, Biden's campaign released the following statement, denying the accusations and alleging "inconsistencies" with Reade's comments.Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tara-reade-says-joe-biden-should-drop-out-2020-election-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade says he should drop out of the 2020 race

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former Vice President <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> said Friday that while he welcomes reporting on the subject, the claim that he sexually assaulted a former staffer in 1993 "is simply not true."</li><li>The remarks came during a press call with former Obama administration officials.</li><li>Valerie Jarrett, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, defended Biden, saying he had undergone all the "necessary background checks and vetting" to be vice president.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday "unequivocally" denied that he ever assaulted former Senate staffer <keyword id="9130885" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tara-reade">Tara Reade</keyword>, saying the "claim is simply not true," according to a pool report. "It did not happen."Biden's remarks came during a virtual fundraiser with alumni from the Obama administration. Earlier in the event, Valerie Jarrett, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, herself implicitly defended Biden from the charge, saying he was at the top of the list of candidates to be vice president, all of whom were subjected to the "necessary background checks and vetting.""And guess who was at the top of that list at the end of it? Vice President Joe Biden," Jarrett said.For his part, Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, claimed to welcome an investigation into Reade's claims. Reade, who worked for Biden's Senate office in 1993, recently claimed that the former vice president sexually assaulted her in a hallway. "Now," Biden said, "my knowledge that it isn't true does nothing to shake my belief that women have to be able to be heard and that all the claims be taken seriously. It isn't enough just to simply take my word for it and to dismiss it out of hand. Frankly, that shouldn't be enough for anyone, because we know that this sort of approach is exactly how the culture of abuse has been allowed to fester for so long."Earlier in the day, Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1256337960443641857/photo/1">sent a letter</a> to the Secretary of the Senate "to request your assistance in determining whether 27 years ago a staff member in my United States Senate office filed a complaint alleging sexual harassment.""I'm heartened to see it, although it's painful sometimes, that by and large journalists are doing what they're supposed to do," Biden said during the fundraiser. "They're going out there listening to the allegations. They're taking it seriously and they're investigating it. And they're talking with folks who were there at the time, scrutinizing personnel records, examining the evolution of the claims, looking into the culture of our office," Biden continued. "And I'm not concerned about what they might find, because I know the truth of the matter. I know that this claim has no merit."Friday's developments come after a former neighbor of Reade <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4">told Business Insider</a> that, after Biden's accuser recently contacted her, she recalled having a conversation in 1995 or 1996 about the alleged assault.Speaking Friday night <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/1/lynda_lacasse_tara_reade_joe_biden">to Democracy Now!</a>, that neighbor, Lynda LaCasse, said that while Biden "looks very believable, too," she "heard Tara a long time ago telling me that [he assaulted her]."Have a news tip? Email this reporter: <a href="mailto:cdavis@insider.com">cdavis@insider.com</a>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-unequivocally-denies-sexual-assault-claim-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

Joe Biden 'unequivocally' denies sexual assault claim during fundraiser with Obama administration alumni

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9130885" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tara-reade">Tara Reade</keyword>, a former Senate staffer for then-Sen. <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> who recently accused him of <keyword id="46530" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sexual-assault">sexual assault</keyword>, told Megyn Kelly in an exclusive interview that Biden said, "I want to f--- you," during the alleged assault in 1993.</li><li>"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.</li><li>Reade has detailed her experience in multiple interviews with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tara-reade-files-criminal-complaint-against-joe-biden-2020-4">Business Insider</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html">The New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sexual-assault-allegation-by-former-biden-senate-aide-emerges-in-campaign-draws-denial/2020/04/12/bc070d66-7067-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html">The Washington Post</a>, and the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story">podcaster Katie Halper</a> — who first reported the allegations.</li><li>Her allegations have also been corroborated by a former neighbor, who told Business Insider that Reade first told her about the assault in 1995 or 1996.</li><li>Biden has emphatically denied the assault allegation, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-denies-tara-reades-allegation-in-morning-joe-interview-2020-5">telling MSNBC last week that "it never happened."</a></li><li>Biden's campaign has released multiple statements denying the accusations and alleging "inconsistencies" with Reade's comments.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for former Vice President Joe Biden who recently accused him of sexual assault, claims Biden told her he wanted to have sexual intercourse with her during the alleged assault.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HeZiKvOA0o">In a sit-down interview</a> with the former Fox <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">News</keyword> and NBC anchor Megyn Kelly, Reade described her recollection of the alleged event in graphic detail, including what Biden allegedly said to her during the encounter.Reade alleged that in the spring or summer of 1993, she was told to meet Biden in a semiprivate corridor to deliver a gym bag. There, she said, Biden pushed her up against a wall, reached under her skirt, and penetrated her with his fingers."And when he went inside the skirt, he was talking to me at the same time, and he was leaning into me," Reade told Kelly. "And I pulled this way, away from his head, I remember, and so he was kissing my neck area, and he whispered, did I want to go somewhere else, in a little voice.""He said some other things," Reade added. "I can't remember everything he said. But he said something vulgar.""May I ask what?" Kelly said."He said, 'I want to f--- you,'" Reade said, then paused to collect herself. "And 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 that she was "tensed up and frozen," and that when Biden noticed she wasn't reciprocating his advances, he "pulled back immediately" and said, "Come on, man, I heard you liked me."She continued, claiming Biden was "then angry" and that she could feel the "hostility build.""And he pulled back, and he was just looking at me directly, and he said, he pointed his finger at me and he said, 'You're nothing to me. You're nothing,'" Reade said. She claimed that as Biden saw her start to get upset when he said those words, he shook by her the shoulders and said, "You're ok, you're alright," before walking away."And I think that's the hardest thing — and I know people talk about the assault — but his words, those words, stayed with me my whole life," Reade told Kelly. "And as I've been trying to tell my story, and have been torn apart trying to tell it, those words come back."Reade told Kelly, "There's a measure of hypocrisy of the campaign saying its safe, it's not been safe."She said she had been attacked on social media and by Biden's supporters."His campaign is taking this position that they want all women to be able to speak safely," Reade said. "I have not experienced that."On Thursday, Biden's campaign released a statement denying the accusations and alleging "inconsistencies" with Reade's comments.She has recounted her experience in multiple interviews with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tara-reade-files-criminal-complaint-against-joe-biden-2020-4">Business Insider</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html">The New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sexual-assault-allegation-by-former-biden-senate-aide-emerges-in-campaign-draws-denial/2020/04/12/bc070d66-7067-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html">The Washington Post</a>, and the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story">podcaster Katie Halper</a> — who first reported the allegations.A former neighbor of Reade's, Lynda LaCasse, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4">told Business Insider that Reade had told her about an assault in 1995 or 1996.</a> "I remember her saying, here was this person that she was working for and she idolized him," LaCasse said. "And he kind of put her up against a wall. And he put his hand up her skirt and he put his fingers inside her. She felt like she was assaulted, and she really didn't feel there was anything she could do."Reade has said she reported other forms of harassment she experienced to Biden's senior staff and Senate human resources, but not the alleged assault. When Reade complained about alleged harassment, she claims she faced career retaliation.She has called for Biden to open his Senate archives currently residing at the University of Delaware for possible records of her complaints, but Biden has said records would not be available there.Biden has emphatically denied the assault allegation, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-denies-tara-reades-allegation-in-morning-joe-interview-2020-5">telling MSNBC last week that "it never happened."</a>The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html">New York Times</a> spoke to "several people" who worked in Biden's office at the time as part of their investigation into Reade's claim and reported that none recalled hearing about such an incident or witnessed similar behavior from Biden.Instead, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-national-archives-tara-reade-documents-2020-5">Biden has called for the National Archives to release any records that might shed light on a complaint made by Reade.</a> But the Archives told Insider they would not have the documents, and that employee complaints filed to the Senate's Office of Fair Employment Practices in the 1990s would be controlled by Senate rules — which dictate that they couldn't be released until 2043.Last week, Biden wrote to the Secretary of the Senate asking for the office to search for and release any complaints; earlier this week the office <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-tara-reade-complaint-secretary-of-senate/">rejected Biden's request.</a>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tara-reade-biden-i-want-f-you-alleged-sexual-assault-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

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

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Prominent Democratic women are standing by former Vice President <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> amid former aide Tara Reade's <keyword id="6914692" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sexual-assault-allegation">sexual assault allegation</keyword> against him.</li><li>Business Insider published interviews with two of Reade's friends, who say Reade confided in them about her claims in the 1990s. </li><li>"I stand by Vice President Biden," Sen. <keyword id="322250" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kirsten-Gillibrand">Kirsten Gillibrand</keyword> said Tuesday. "He's devoted his life to supporting women and he has vehemently denied this allegation."</li><li>Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who is publicly lobbying to become Biden's vice-presidential running mate, insisted on Tuesday that Biden "will make women proud as the next President of the United States." </li><li>The Biden campaign has repeatedly denied the accusations.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Prominent Democratic women are standing by former Vice President Joe Biden in the wake of former aide Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation against him.Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a champion of women's rights on Capitol Hill and a leading supporter of the #MeToo movement, defended Biden during a Tuesday conference call. "I stand by Vice President Biden," <a href="https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1255216812524011520">Gillibrand said</a>. "He's devoted his life to supporting women and he has vehemently denied this allegation."Notably, Gillibrand was the first Senate Democrat to call on former Democratic Sen. Al Franken, of Minnesota, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-call-on-al-franken-to-resign-sexual-harassment-2017-12">to resign</a> after seven women accused him of inappropriate touching. Biden has vowed to select a woman as his vice-presidential running mate, and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has publicly lobbied to be Biden's pick. On Tuesday, she said Reade's claims wouldn't stand in the way of that. "I believe women deserve to be heard, and I believe that has happened here," Abrams <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-vp-tara-reade_n_5ea86f02c5b66d8003aac14f?8ls">told HuffPost</a> on Tuesday. "The allegations have been heard and looked into, and for too many women, often, that is not the case. The New York Times conducted a thorough investigation, and nothing in The Times review or any other later reports suggests anything other than what I already know about Joe Biden: That he will make women proud as the next President of the United States."Last month, former Biden aide <a href="https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story">Tara Reade alleged</a> that the then-senator put his hands up her skirt and digitally penetrated her without consent in a Senate hallway in 1993. The Biden campaign denied the accusations and most prominent Democrats and Biden supporters, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, remained silent on the issue. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4">Business Insider published a report</a> on Monday that included an interview with a former neighbor of Reade's, Lynda LaCasse, who says Reade told her the details of Biden's alleged assault in 1995 or 1996. A former California state senate colleague of Reade's told Business Insider that Reade told her in the mid-1990s that she was sexually harassed by Biden and later fired from his office. And last week, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/24/new-evidence-tara-reade-joe-biden/">The Intercept reported about a recording</a> that Reade alleges is her mother, calling in to "Larry King Live" in 1993 to ask how her daughter should handle her issues with "a prominent senator." In the recording, the woman doesn't mention harassment or retaliation or specify who the "prominent senator" is.Biden's campaign has repeatedly denied Reade's allegations. And former aides who worked in Biden's Senate office alongside Reade <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html">have said</a> they have no recollection of her complaints. "Women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims," the campaign said in a recent statement. "We encourage them to do so because these accusations are false."On Tuesday, Reade <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tara-reade-hillary-clinton-joe-biden-endorsement">accused</a> former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of "enabling a sexual predator" by endorsing Biden for president. Reade initially praised Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for saying her allegations were "<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-biden-its-legitimate-to-talk-about-allegations/">legitimate to talk about</a>" earlier this month, but Reade later accused the progressive of bowing to political pressure by remaining supportive of Biden's candidacy. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose name has also been batted around as a potential running mate pick, said she supports vetting Reade's allegations. "I think that it is important that these allegations are vetted, from the media to beyond. And I think that it is something that no one takes lightly," Whitmer <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/834214831">said</a> earlier this month. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary and endorsed Biden last month, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/834460134/sen-klobuchar-on-her-bill-to-ensure-mail-in-voting-rights-and-on-joe-biden">similarly said</a> in mid-April that "all women in these cases have the right to be heard and have their claims thoroughly reviewed."Reade <a href="https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-county-woman-says-joe-biden-inappropriately-touched-her-while-working-in-his-u-s-senate-office/">initially came forward</a> last year with the allegations that Biden touched her neck and shoulders and asked her to serve drinks at work events because he liked her legs. She said she was treated like an ornamental lamp and then pushed out of her job after complaining about Biden's conduct."It's pretty. Set it over there," she said. "Then when it's too bright, you throw it away."Biden has also been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-allegations-women-2020-campaign-2019-6">accused by several other women</a> of inappropriate touching, but none of these allegations included sexual assault. Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stacey-abrams-kirsten-gillibrand-support-biden-amid-sexual-assault-claim-2020-4">Business Insider</a>

Prominent Democratic women, including Stacey Abrams and Kirsten Gillibrand, are standing by Joe Biden amid sexual assault accusation

Hello! Welcome to the next edition of <keyword id="9095853" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="insider-today">Insider Today</keyword>. Please sign up to receive it as an email<a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/insider-today"> here</a>.As a reminder, this is an email publication that David Plotz and I are writing with the help of many of our excellent journalists. Our goal is to provide you with insight and analysis about the big stories of the day.Thanks as always for reading. Please feel free to reply to this email and tell us what you like or don't like, and we'll evolve and improve as we go. —Henry Blodget (henry@insider.com) and David Plotz (david@insider.com)SUMMARY: Republicans who just bailed out thousands of private companies and supported a vast increase in federal deficit-spending now want states to declare <keyword id="43550" type="EVENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bankruptcy">bankruptcy</keyword>. Is that a smart idea? Can we save our cities when the pandemic ends, or will they now decline for decades? Biden needs to respond personally to the sexual-assault allegation. <h3>Should states just "declare bankruptcy?" </h3>As states shell out billions of dollars on unemployment and other responses to the coronavirus—and as business shutdowns and payroll and sales tax declines whack tax revenue—state budgets are being blown apart. New York State, for example, foresees at least <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/nyregion/coronavirus-recession-economy-ny.html">a $10 billion to $15 billion budget shortfall</a> this year.To address this, many governors and economists are recommending that the federal government put <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-state-local-government-federal-trump-congress-bailout-2020-4">emergency funding for the states</a> into the next <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> response package. Some members of the GOP, however — including President Trump, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-blue-state-bailout-coronavirus-cash-reserves-levels-recession-aid-2020-4">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell</a>, and Florida Sen. Rick Scott — have responded by saying that states should instead just "declare bankruptcy."Is this a smart idea?No. Forcing states to declare bankruptcy right now would have the same effect as forcing dozens of giant airlines, hotel chains, and other companies to declare bankruptcy — namely, triggering millions of additional layoffs as states are forced to cut spending and, thereby, radically worsening the country's overall economic crisis.The federal government has rightly chosen to extend lifelines to private companies hit by the crisis, and these bailouts have helped stabilize the <keyword id="34412" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="economy">economy</keyword>. The GOP and White House helped design and pass these emergency funds to the private sector. So the suggestion that states should declare bankruptcy, when companies should not, stems mostly from political ideology rather than economic common sense.Another argument put forth by the GOP — in particular, Florida Sen. Scott, himself a former governor — is that solvent states shouldn't have to bail out insolvent ones.This argument sounds reasonable at first. Some states do have persistent fiscal challenges. And it is fine and reasonable for states that run tight ships to complain about having to support profligate neighbors. But the argument ignores the fact that some of the states that need help now normally subsidize the states that are now complaining.An <a href="https://rockinst.org/issue-area/balance-of-payments-2020/">analysis by the Rockefeller Institute of Government</a> found that, in fiscal 2018, 8 states sent more money to the federal government than they received back. The 42 other states, meanwhile, ran a deficit with the federal government, meaning that they received net subsidies. In Rockefeller's chart below, the orange states—including New York—sent net money to Washington. All the others received it.<div type="image" title="state bailout" height="861" width="1329" msid="75434866" hostid="261"></div>Given the deficit the federal government is running — an annual deficit that has ballooned to nearly $4 trillion in recent weeks with the passage of massive emergency spending plans approved by members of both parties — it's also hypocritical for national leaders to lecture state leaders about being fiscally responsible.The federal government doesn't have to think about "declaring bankruptcy," because we citizens have given it the power to print and borrow money. The federal government is supposed to use this power to help us, and it is. The next important way the federal government can help us is to enable our state and local governments get through this crisis without having to cut services and fire millions of Americans. Then, once the crisis is over, if the GOP still feels passionate about it, we can have a discussion about how and when states should subsidize each other. — HB<h3>How to save our cities as the pandemic ends</h3><div type="image" title="new york city empty street vendor coronavirus" height="1000" width="2000" msid="75434873" hostid="261"></div>Post-pandemic cities will be depressing places.The disease is already undoing the density that's made downtowns so bustling, active, walkable, energy efficient, and rich. Post-pandemic, many who can afford to work and live remotely will likely shy away from the urban core.The decline in workers, shoppers, and tourists will devastate the restaurant and retail economies. Theaters and art galleries will close. There will be a drop in new immigrants remaking neighborhoods and enriching urban culture. It will suck. There's almost universal agreement about how cities are likely to suffer. (Read <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/how-pandemic-will-change-face-retail/610738/">these</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/04/20/839418905/opinion-redesigning-the-covid-19-city">excellent</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/life-after-coronavirus-pandemic-change-world">stories</a> if you want to feel really gloomy.) But there's less certainty about how they can recover. The <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/how-pandemic-will-change-face-retail/610738/">Atlantic's Derek Thompson</a> notes that there's a natural boom-bust cycle in American cities: They get dense and rich, then empty out because of some unexpected societal upheaval (deindustrialization, urban unrest). This eventually lowers rents, which draws immigrants and cultural pioneers, and that in turn attracts money and more people, and the cities thrive again. If COVID-19 hollows out downtowns, they will eventually come back, But "eventually" is a mighty long time — probably decades. That's not solace for city lovers today. Is there any way to speed up the post-pandemic cycle? I think there is.The post-pandemic city won't work until people feel safe, and for now, they won't feel safe without a transformation in the urban environment. Israel's an instructive example: After a spate of terrorist bombings 20 years ago, Israel began placing guards at the entrances to malls and <keyword id="31671" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="markets">markets</keyword>. Israelis quickly felt safe shopping and gathering again. It was costly, but a lot cheaper than abandoning the markets. Post-pandemic, American cities will need to make an even more sweeping physical transformation, and fast. Handwashing stations at every storefront; cleaning teams to wipe down surfaces; the spreading out of tables in restaurants and chairs in classrooms and seats in theaters; touchless pickup of groceries; touchless thermometer stations...the list goes on and on. And we don't yet know which of these changes will make people feel safe from infection (or actually make them be safe). So here's a free idea for a billionaire tired of cocooning in a New Zealand bunker. Pick a single block in a city you love and fund every restaurant, apartment building, school, police station, day care, and office on that block to make themselves safe. Retrofit the restaurants to be less dense, and build a separate pickup entrance. Pay the daycare center to have a full-time cleaning person. Install handwashing stations in every classroom and office. Create a model for a post-pandemic urban neighborhood, where people live and work together in the new way. If it works, it will quickly be copied in other neighborhoods and other cities, and cities will recover much faster. —DP<h3>Pressure increases on Biden to personally address sexual-assault allegation </h3>Yesterday, Insider published more<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4"> corroboration of the 1993 sexual-assault allegation against former Vice President Biden</a>. Biden's campaign responded by pointing to its previous assertion that the allegation made by former staffer Tara Reade is false. But there is now corroboration for this allegation, as there has been for similar allegations against other high-profile government figures, including Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and President Trump.Kavanaugh directly responded to the allegations against him. President Trump has directly —and dismissively—responded to the many sexual assault allegations against him.So Biden will likely have to respond himself to this one. And how he does so will be revealing.Even as Democrats cringe at the idea that their leading hope to win back the White House has been hit with an allegation like this, they should want to hear what he has to say about it. Will the allegation hurt Biden's chances of winning the Presidency? Or, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-former-neighbor-of-joe-bidens-accuser-on-coming-forward-2020-4">like the plans of the latest corroborator of the allegation</a>, Lynda LaCasse, will Democrats decide to vote for Biden? — HB<h3>A silver lining… Miami just went seven weeks without a homicide.</h3><div type="image" title="miami beach coronavirus" height="1426" width="2852" msid="75434880" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.insider.com/miami-experiences-longest-gap-between-homicides-since-1957-2020-4">That's the longest stretch since 1957</a>, and it is a rare bit of good pandemic news. But is COVID-19 the universal crime fighter? The effect of the pandemic on crime is <a href="https://www.safewise.com/blog/covid-19-crimes/">surprisingly erratic</a>, and not yet clear. Murders are <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nypd-crime-statistics-new-york-city-coronavirus-nyc/6071137/">down in some places</a>, but <a href="https://time.com/5818553/gun-violence-chicago-coronavirus/">up in others</a>. Property crime is surging in some cities, while<a href="https://apnews.com/bbb7adc88d3fa067c5c1b5c72a1a8aa6"> drug crimes are down</a>. Authorities expected a rise in domestic violence since people are cooped up at home, but are unsettled to find that some cities, including Los Angeles, are experiencing <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/fewer-domestic-violence-calls-covid-19-outbreak-california/story?id=70336388">a drop in domestic violence calls</a>, leading to fears that victims are afraid to call the police because they can't get away from their abusers. — DP<h3>Blaming the victims of COVID-19</h3>Last week the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/nyregion/coronavirus-jjbubbles-joe-joyce.html">profiled</a> a Fox-News-watching bar owner in Brooklyn who died after expressing skepticism about Covid-19. This week, the Washington Post took a turn: "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/04/27/pastor-landon-spradlin-coronavirus-death/">A Virginia preacher believed 'God can heal anything.' Then he caught coronavirus.</a>"In neither story was the victim the actual target: The purpose of the Times piece was to smack Fox News, especially Sean Hannity, for downplaying the disease. (Hannity is now <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-times-waves-off-hannity-threat-no-retraction-or-apology-coming">threatening to sue</a> the Times about it.) And the Post paints a subtle, sympathetic portrait of preacher Landon Spradlin, and criticizes others for mocking Spradlin. But the nut of the story was: Spradlin —"an avid Trump supporter" posted something on Facebook about "mass hysteria" around the virus, then caught COVID-19 and died.I don't get the point of these stories, which reduce rich, complicated lives to an ironic punchline. I also suspect they infuriate the very people they are intended to reach. — DPRead the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-mcconnell-gop-states-declare-bankruptcy-coronavirus-aid-2020-4">Business Insider</a>

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