Back in the U.S., former vice president and potential 2020 hopeful Joe Biden has come under renewed scrutiny for his inappropriate touching of women and girls after Lucy Flores, a former Nevada state assemblywoman, penned a piece, published Friday, detailing her encounter with Biden when she was running for lieutenant governor in Nevada in 2014. Flores says Biden came up behind her as she was preparing to give a campaign speech on stage, held her shoulders, smelled her hair and kissed her slowly on the back of the head. Biden issued a statement saying that he has expressed affection many times in his political life but that “not once—never—did I believe I acted inappropriately.” Flores addressed Biden’s response in an interview on CNN Sunday.
Lucy Flores: “My point was never about his intentions, and they shouldn’t be about his intentions. It should be about the women on the receiving end of that behavior. And this isn’t the first time, and it wasn’t the only incident, where he was acting inappropriately with women.”
That was Lucy Flores speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper. Biden is rumored to announce his bid for the 2020 election sometime this month.