<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

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Georgia Secretary of State <keyword id="12045648" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="brad-raffensperger" source="Orion">Brad Raffensperger</keyword> said both Republicans and Democrats need to acknowledge "when you lose, you lose."</li><li>The Georgia official compared efforts by Republicans to overturn the <keyword id="11907757" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="2020-election" source="Orion">2020 election</keyword> to complaints of voter suppression from Democrats. </li></ul>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a message to both Republicans and Democrats frustrated by election losses: "Move on."Speaking to <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSundayShow/status/1457375531192758278?s=20">MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart on Sunday</a>, Raffensperger said both Republicans and Democrats can be blamed for distrust in public elections. "We have safe and secure elections. It's not helpful for either party, I think either party needs to look at what they're saying and just realize that when you lose, you lose," Raffensperger told Capehart. Raffensperger said <keyword id="12285104" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stacey-abrams" source="Orion">Stacey Abrams</keyword>, who ran for Governor of Georgia in 2018 but lost, "set the table for President Trump" to make similar claims of election fraud. At the time, Abrams said she would have won the election were it not for voter suppression in Georgia.Abrams' opponent who went on to become governor, then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp, was both a candidate in the race and the one overseeing the election process. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/florida-georgia-scott-kemp.html">The New York Times reported</a> in 2018 that Kemp "oversaw purges of the voting rolls and supported a tightening of registration rules."Abrams ended her campaign but <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stacey-abrams-bio-georgia-joe-biden-democrats-voter-registration-election-2020-11">refused to formally concede the race</a>, claiming that voter suppression prevented her win."If you really look at what Stacey Abrams did, she lost the state of Georgia in 2018 by 55,000 votes. She questioned the legitimacy of our elections. She actually then set the table, along with all the national democrat leaders that supported Stacy Abrams in her big lie, and set the table for President Trump then just to ramp it up and take it to the next level," Raffensperger said in an <a href="https://www.mrctv.org/videos/velshi-gets-upset-ga-sec-state-condemning-stacey-abrams">interview on Saturday with MSNBC's Ali Velshi</a>. "Voter suppression and voter fraud, they're both sides of that coin, different sides, but stolen election claims undermine people's confidence in the elections," Raffensperger continued, saying there was no voter suppression in that election. On Sunday, Capehart pushed back on Raffensperger's narrative, which an <keyword id="11939304" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="msnbc" source="Orion">MSNBC</keyword> blogger said was <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/brad-raffensperger-trump-stacey-abrams-rcna2666">"sucking up to Trump with attacks on Stacey Abrams."</a>"Is it not dangerous and disingenuous to equate questioning legitimate voter suppression with false claims of voter fraud? And couldn't you be doing more to convince voters that our elections are safe and secure?" Capehart asked. "Elections are safe and secure in Georgia, and I think it's really disingenuous when the left does not really fess up to the part that they play when Hillary Clinton and all those other people supported Stacy Abrams when she said she would have won if it were not for voter suppression," Raffensperger said. "President Trump then did the flip side and talked about voter fraud, but neither one of them was supported by the facts."Multiple investigations were opened against the former president following his <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tried-calling-georgia-secretary-of-state-18-times-report-2021-1">attempts to pressure elected officials</a> to alter the 2020 election results. In a now-infamous phone call to Raffensperger, Trump asked the Georgia official to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tried-calling-georgia-secretary-of-state-18-times-report-2021-1">"find" 11,780 votes</a> to overturn the election."Accept the facts that you have lost and move on. If you want to run again, by all means," Raffensperger said. "But accept the results."

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to Republicans and Democrats on elections results they don't like: 'Accept the facts that you have lost and move on'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12345154" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="david-perdue" source="Orion">David Perdue</keyword> took a racist jab at Stacey Abrams at a campaign event Monday night.</li><li>Perdue, running for governor of <keyword id="11931393" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="georgia" source="Orion">Georgia</keyword>, said Abrams, who is Black, was "demeaning her race."</li></ul>Former Sen. David Perdue closed his campaign for governor of Georgia on Monday with a racist jab at the Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams and a tele-rally with former President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword>.Perdue, who is white, s<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/23/perdue-makes-racist-remark-about-abrams-shes-demeaning-her-own-race/">aid at a campaign stop in Dunwoody, Georgia</a>, that Abrams, who is Black, was "demeaning her own race" with comments she made an an earlier event."When she told Black farmers, 'You don't need to be on the farm,' and she told Black workers in hospitality and all this, 'You don't need to be' — she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that," <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/23/perdue-makes-racist-remark-about-abrams-shes-demeaning-her-own-race/"></a>Perdue said."I am really over this. She should never be considered for material for governor of any state, much less our state — where she hates to live.""She said that Georgia is the worst place in the country to live," he also said during that rally. "Hey, she ain't from here. Let her go back where she came from if she doesn't like it here."Abrams moved to Georgia in high school and later served in the state's legislature.<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/abrams-says-georgia-worst-state-live-citing-health-care-incarceration-rcna30134"></a><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/abrams-says-georgia-worst-state-live-citing-health-care-incarceration-rcna30134">The comments Perdue highlighted came at a fundraising event</a> for Gwinnett County Democrats near Atlanta over the weekend. Abrams said she was "tired of hearing about being the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live.""When you're No. 48 for <a href="https://www.mhanational.org/issues/ranking-states#overall-ranking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mental health</a>, when you're No. 1 for <a href="https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/health-of-women-and-children/measure/overall_hwc_a/state/ALL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">maternal mortality</a>, when you have an incarceration rate that's on the rise and wages that are on the decline, then you are not the No. 1 place to live in the United States," Abrams said."But we can get there," she added. "You see, Georgia is capable of greatness. We just need greatness to be in our governor's office."<h2>Trump makes an appearance for Perdue</h2>Separately, during a tele-rally on Monday, Trump restated his support for the former US senator."Our country, I don't think it's ever been in worse shape than it is right now," Trump said, adding that the outcome of Tuesday's primary elections in Georgia was "critical" to restoring the Republican majority in the US Senate. Perdue is one of eight candidates — including Abrams and the incumbent <keyword id="12285105" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="brian-kemp" source="Orion">Brian Kemp</keyword> — running for governor of Georgia.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pence-rallies-brian-kemp-donald-trump-perdue-georgia-primary-2022-5">Trump urged Georgia residents</a> to vote for Perdue because he's "100% MAGA.""You'll look back in years to come," Trump said in the 11-minute telephone rally. "And you'll say that was a great vote just as I hope you feel that your vote for me was a great vote."Trump has been trying to oust Kemp and Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, since the duo certified Joe Biden's 2020 electoral win.Kemp and Raffensperger conducted a statewide audit and oversaw <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-requests-recount-in-georgia-after-biden-certified-winner-2020-11">recounts of the more than 5 million votes</a> Georgians cast in the 2020 presidential contest, but their refusal to go along with Trump's baseless claims of election fraud <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-david-perdue-brian-kemp-georgia-governor-protest-vote-2022-5">relegated them to the disloyal camp</a>. The revengeful single-term president has been hounding them ever since.Trump claimed Monday that Kemp "allowed the Georgia election to be rigged and to be stolen.""I don't believe Kemp can do it," he said about the possibility of the sitting governor winning the primary. "He's got too many people in the Republican Party that will refuse to vote."Perdue has said he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/david-perdue-says-he-wouldnt-have-certified-the-georgia-2020-election-2021-12">wouldn't have certified the 2020 election</a> in Georgia.<h2>Trump coaxed Perdue out of retirement to challenge Kemp</h2>Perdue lost his Senate seat in 2021. He failed to cross the 50% threshold to win reelection outright in November 2020 and was forced into a high-stakes runoff against the Democratic nominee Jon Ossoff in January 2021. Perdue's loss — along with that of his fellow Republican Kelly Loeffler to her Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock — flipped control of the Senate to Democrats and gave Biden a unified Congress to work with.A month later, Perdue <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/david-perdue-declines-2022-georgia-senate-run-gop-2021-2">rejected the chance to challenge Warnock this fall</a>, describing his call to skip another Senate run as "a personal decision, not a political one."Perdue <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/its-official-perdue-to-challenge-kemp-for-ga-governor-ensuring-divisive-gop-primary/2021/12/06/7f5fd94c-56a7-11ec-a808-3197a22b19fa_story.html">threw his hat into the ring</a> in December against his onetime friend Kemp, however, at the behest of a brooding Trump.Trump talked up Perdue and the former football star Herschel Walker, his pick to knock off Warnock in the general election, <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?518958-1/president-trump-holds-rally-commerce-georgia">during a rally</a> in Commerce, Georgia, on March 26. Trump also joined Perdue for a <a href="https://youtu.be/r45bg1PBmKU">10-minute tele-rally</a> in early May.Former Vice President <keyword id="12069606" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mike-pence" source="Orion">Mike Pence</keyword> endorsed Kemp, directly <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/pence-trump-to-hold-dueling-rallies-for-gop-candidates-in-georgia/">opposing</a> Trump's pick. Pence argued at a different pep rally Monday that voting for Kemp would "send a deafening message all across America that the Republican Party is the party of the future.""This race is bigger than me. It's bigger than Brian Kemp," Perdue argued at the tele-rally Monday. "It's about the future of our country.""Brian Kemp has divided our party," he added, "and cannot beat Stacy Abrams."

David Perdue caps his campaign for Georgia governor with a racist remark against Stacey Abrams and a Trump tele-rally

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son <keyword id="7612485" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Archie-Harrison">Archie Harrison</keyword> wished royal fans a happy new year in the first episode of their new podcast, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pgBKgulhg8adZJismM5bj">Archewell Audio.</a></li><li><keyword id="2959098" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Meghan-Markle">Meghan Markle</keyword> and <keyword id="17995" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Prince-Harry">Prince Harry</keyword>'s son spoke publicly for the first time in the holiday special, which also featured celebrity guests including Elton John, Stacy Abrams, and James Cordon.</li><li>The Daily Mail's royal editor Rebecca English <a href="https://twitter.com/RE_DailyMail/status/1343944051490516992">tweeted</a> that Archie "very much has an American accent" after listening to the audio.</li><li>Listen to the moment in the podcast embedded below at the 31:56 mark, or on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pgBKgulhg8adZJismM5bj">Spotify</a>.</li></ul>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released the star-studded first episode of their new podcast, Archewell Audio - and it includes a clip of <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/archie-harrison">Archie Harrison</a> speaking. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's son joined celebrities including Sir Elton John, Tyler Perry, James Cordon, Naomi Osaka, Stacey Abrams, and Matt Haig as a special guest in the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pgBKgulhg8adZJismM5bj">holiday episode on Spotify,</a> which went live on Tuesday.Archie, who <a href="https://www.insider.com/photos-archie-harrison-life-birthday-meghan-markle-prince-harry-2020-5">celebrated his first birthday in May</a>, makes an appearance towards the end of the episode, joining his parents in wishing fans a happy new year. It's the first time the little one has been heard speaking publicly."You can speak into it," Harry can be heard telling Archie of the microphone."Archie, is it fun?" Markle adds."Fun!" Archie repeats."After me, ready? Happy..." Harry says, and Archie repeats the word. The couple then encourage him to say "happy new year," which he does - followed by an outburst of laughter from the trio. You can listen to the moment below, starting at the 31:56 mark:<iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed-podcast/episode/3pgBKgulhg8adZJismM5bj" width="100%" height="232" frameborder="0"></iframe>The Daily Mail's royal editor Rebecca English <a href="https://twitter.com/RE_DailyMail/status/1343944051490516992">tweeted</a> that Archie "very much has an American accent" after listening to the audio.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Rebecca English (@RE_DailyMail) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1343944051490516992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2020</a></blockquote>Harry and Markle also shared a special detail about their royal wedding in 2018 during the episode.The couple played a clip of the song, "This Little Light of Mine," at the end of the episode (around the 30:27 mark), which was the song the couple chose for their wedding because of its message. "'This Little Light of Mine' played at the very end of our wedding while we were walking down the steps of the church. It was the music that we wanted playing when we started our lives together. Because as we all know, 'darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that,'" the duchess said. Harry added: "The message of this song is one we hold so dearly. It's about using the power we each have within us to make this world a better place."Spotify <a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-prince-harry-trailer-spotify-podcast-archewell-audio-2020-12">announced news of its partnership with Harry and Markle</a> earlier in December, saying that the holiday special "will feature stories of hope and compassion from inspirational guests in celebration of the new year."The podcast, Archewell Audio, is <a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-prince-harry-trailer-spotify-podcast-archewell-audio-2020-12">named for their charitable foundation of the same name</a>. The Sussexes announced plans to launch the charity back in April, and confirmed that it was named after their son.<div type="image" title="Prince Harry Meghan Markle Archie" height="2253" width="3000" msid="80015576" hostid="261"></div>"Before SussexRoyal, came the idea of 'Arche' - the Greek word meaning 'source of action.' We connected to this concept for the charitable organization we hoped to build one day, and it became the inspiration for our son's name," the couple said in a statement. "To do something of meaning, to do something that matters. Archewell is a name that combines an ancient word for strength and action, and another that evokes the deep resources we each must draw upon. We look forward to launching Archewell when the time is right," they added.<h2><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pgBKgulhg8adZJismM5bj">Listen to the full 2020 Archewell Audio holiday special on Spotify</a></h2><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-prince-harry-trailer-spotify-podcast-archewell-audio-2020-12">Meghan Markle poked fun at Prince Harry's 'podcast voice' in the trailer for their new Spotify series</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-prince-harry-spotify-podcast-trailer-drop-titles-2020-12">Meghan Markle and Prince Harry dropped their royal titles in the trailer for their new podcast series</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-prince-harry-family-new-holiday-card-royals-christmas-2020-12">Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's new holiday card proves royal life is behind them - and that Archie takes after his dad</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/royal-family-prince-charles-miss-archie-harrison-grow-up-2020-11">The royal family reportedly 'really misses Archie' and is upset to miss out on watching him grow up in the US</a></li></ul>

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

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