Donald Trump is likely to face Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The challenger faces serious allegations. An interview also caused a stir.
- It now seems clear who should challenge Donald Trump in the US presidential election.
- Joe Biden has effectively won the Democratic primary after Bernie Sander's withdrawal.
- However, the former vice-president of Barack Obama has problems with allegations of abuse.
Update March 23, 8:20 am: The designated Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, caused a stir in the United States with a statement in support of African-American voters . Biden told a prominent African-American radio host on Friday that he wasn't a real black man if he had to consider whether he supported him or President Donald Trump.
So this happened ... "If you got a problem figuring out whether you're for me or for Trump then you ain't black."
- @ JoeBiden to @cthagod pic.twitter.com/IdnyxSAY5k
Biden subsequently regretted his statement, according to US media reports. The broadcaster CNN reported that Biden had admitted in a telephone exchange with the African American Chamber of Commerce that his words could be considered haughty. He knew that he couldn't take the voices of African Americans for granted . "I know I need the African American votes to win the presidential election."
Biden with interview excitement: Trump's campaign team reacts
Biden (77) is very popular with African Americans . However, there was a heated debate on social media; many blacks criticized Biden's statement as patronizing. Trump's campaign team condemned the remark as "racist ". It shows that Biden, as a white man, believes that black people are "unable to be independent or to think independently."
First message: Washington - In all likelihood, it is Joe Biden be the Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential elections from the ranks of Democrats challenges. But Barack Obama's former vice president is currently unable to get out of the negative headlines - allegations of abuse against the 77-year-old continue to smolder. The woman behind the allegations, Tara Reade , has now even demanded Biden's withdrawal from the White House race. However, there are doubts about what they said.
Trump's alleged challenger Biden in focus - "you shouldn't compete"
"You shouldn't be running as a presidential candidate for the United States," Reade said in an interview with local journalist Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News presenter and NBC talk show host, on Thursday local time. In addition, she is ready to testify under oath - and a lie detector test, if Biden is too.
MK EXCLUSIVE: Will Tara Reade go under oath or take a polygraph? pic.twitter.com/aBXohhg14n
- Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) May 7, 2020Reade accuses ex-Senator Biden (more about Bidens Vida at Merkur.de * ) of massively harassing her in a hallway of the US Congress 27 years ago. He is said to have pressed her to the wall, reached under her underwear and into her gender. After a long silence, Biden dismissed the accusation as untrue. The case is legally barred; nevertheless, the allegations are a heavy mortgage for Biden and could do him serious harm in the election campaign .
Joe Biden: Allegations of abuse against the Democratic primary
Reade said in Thursday's interview that she hoped Biden would withdraw from the presidential race, but didn't think he would. In addition, it is probably "a little late" for an apology. Reade appeared in front of the camera in the interview for the first time since Biden had denied the allegations a week ago.
Joe Biden's former staff member Tara Reade sticks to her allegations
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Meanwhile, new evidence emerged from the 1990s that Reade told her ex-husband that she had been sexually harassed while working for Biden. It is a 1996 court document available to the San Luis Obispo Tribune newspaper .
Allegations against Biden: Statements and documents on alleged abuse allow doubts
However, the document does not indicate that Biden committed the alleged abuse, nor does Reade's recent and more serious allegations. Reade's then husband, Theodore Dronen, wrote in the court statement that Reade was telling him about a "problem with sexual harassment at work" in the then Senator Biden's office.
Reades statements about the alleged incident varied over time . At the beginning of 2019, she was one of a number of women who did not accuse Biden of being abusive, but who did inappropriate touching. Finally, she then made the more serious allegations.
Allegation of abuse for Biden: Campaign boss wants to support women - but sees allegations as wrong
Biden Vice Campaign boss Kate Bedingfield said, according to The Washington Post on Thursday that "pop up more and more inconsistencies". Women should be able to share their experiences without fear. In Reade's case, however, the allegations are false, which is also shown by the alleged evidence.
The center politician Biden has de facto won the Democratic race for the presidential candidacy. He is said to be officially nominated at a party convention scheduled for August and to challenge incumbent Donald Trump in the presidential election on November 3 . Reade had initially publicly supported the democratic applicant Bernie Sanders, who recently gave up in the pre-election race and stood behind Biden.
Joe Biden under pressure: poll shows divided mood among US voters
The US voters have a split According to the survey of the allegations against Biden respect. According to the Monmouth University poll published on Wednesday, 37 percent believe the allegations are likely to be true, 32 are fairly false, 31 percent are undecided. The same poll shows that support for Biden as a possible president increased from 48 percent in March to 50 percent now. However, there were also doubts on the meaningfulness of the question in social networks.
Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation against Biden via new Monmouth poll:
All voters:
37% probably true
32% probably not true
31% don't know
Democrats:
20% probably true
55% probably not true
26% don't know
Republicans:
50 % probably true
17% probably not true
33% don't know
In the meantime, the actually canceled presidential primaries * of the US Democrats in the state of New York are now to be held. A federal court ordered Tuesday to hold the elections. These are in the "public interest". The United States is among the countries most affected by the corona pandemic.
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* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.