Sen. Chuck Schumer said he accepts Joe Biden’s response to former aide Tara Reade’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her in a Senate hallway in 1993.
“I have heard Joe Biden’s explanation, and I think it’s sufficient,” Schumer, a New York Democrat, told reporters Tuesday.
No Senate Democrat has said they will abandon support of Biden as a result of Reade’s accusation.
Biden has said the incident never happened.
Senate Democrats voted unanimously against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after Christine Blasey Ford accused him of jumping on top of her and sexually assaulting her at a party when the two were in high school.
Schumer, during the Kavanaugh confirmation fight, said he believed Ford despite inconsistencies in her story. He once went to the Senate floor and called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to apologize to Ford “for labeling her allegations a smear job.”
