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Tara Reade, who has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of sexually harassing and sexually assaulting her in 1993, said she wishes he would drop out of the presidential race.
“I want to say, you and I were there, Joe Biden. Please step forward and be held accountable,” Reade told Megyn Kelly in her first on-camera account since Biden denied her allegations last week. “You should not be running on character for the president of the United States.”
Kelly, a former Fox News and NBC host, is releasing the interview on her Instagram and YouTube accounts. She put out a clip from the longer conversation on Thursday.
Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, last week addressed Reade’s claims personally for the first time, saying on MSNBC that “it’s not true, I am saying unequivocally. It never, never happened.” He also issued a written denial.
Biden again denied Reade’s allegations during a local interview Thursday with Spectrum Bay News 9 in Tampa, Fla., telling the TV station: “Nothing ever happened with Tara Reade,” and adding: “In this case, the truth is the claims are flat out false.”
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