Rep. Ilhan Omar said she will support Joe Biden’s presidential bid, while adding that sexual assault survivors should be believed, including the woman who raised allegations against the former vice president.
Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was asked about comments she made in an interview published in the Sunday Times of London that she believed Tara Reade, who said Biden sexually assaulted her when she was a staffer in his Senate office in 1993.
“There’s obviously parts of what she has said that have been corroborated and parts that haven’t, that is not my place to litigate her story,” Omar told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday. “I think it’s important when someone says they have been assaulted and they see themselves as survivors that we, as we have been saying, believe survivors.”
Omar, who said the interview with the newspaper was conducted weeks ago, was asked if she still believed Reade.
She responded that she will back Biden because “this is one of the most important elections of our lifetime” and that she thinks “it’s important for us to create a space where we allow for survivors to come forward. And that has been consistent with my values, and I think we can do both.”
In the Sunday Times interview, Omar said she believed Reade and that “Justice can be delayed, but should never be denied.”
Biden has denied the allegations.
“What matters is the truth … And the truth of the case is nothing like this ever, ever happened. She has a right to be heard. But then it should be vetted and the truth ultimately matters. And I give you my word, it never, ever happened,” Biden said earlier this month.
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