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Ex-Sanders Campaign Official Demands Biden ‘Withdraw From The Race’ Over Tara Reade Accusation

Tim Pearce
Ex-Sanders Campaign Official Demands Biden ‘Withdraw From The Race’ Over Tara Reade Accusation
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A former top official for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign is calling on former Vice President Joe Biden to step aside as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee over an allegation of sexual assault.

The Sanders campaign’s former national organizing director Claire Sandberg said Wednesday that Democrats should act now on the accusations of Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who has accused Biden of sexual assault. Recent evidence shows that Reade’s accusation is not recent, and that she had told friends and family about the incident she had with Biden soon after it happened.

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