Pic of the day?

[MelissaB]

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You can also click the twitter thread to read the replies. It started with a Jake Tapper post.

[calimary]

1. Great find!

[Eko]

2. K&R

[Cha]

3. OMG!!

Make it GO VIRAL!!

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Did Biden report that?!!! I take it was at the same event?

Mahalo, Melissa!

[Beringia]

4. Ya, she didn't need to touch him if she was so offended by him.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Sherman A1]

6. K&R

[Chemisse]

7. OMG. She should NOT get away with this!

Actions like this make a mockery of the MeToo Movement.

[LongtimeAZDem]

8. I would very much like to know if this was before or after his alleged action

If it was before, then she had demonstrated a comfortable physical familiarity with him.

If it was after, then it makes it very hard for me to believe she was creeped out by contact with him.

Putting it all together with:

the fact that people who were there don't back up her story,
the fact that she has been and appears to be still promoting Sanders, and
her statement that blaming Sanders for the alleged sexual harassment on his campaign (that she admits to being aware of) is "unfair", then

I doubt her story. Even if the contact she describes (was it the back of her head or the top?) actually occurred, I do not believe she was "creeped out".

This is a contrived hit job, IMO.

[MrsCoffee]

13. Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014

Vice President Joe Biden takes a selfie with Nevada Lt. Governor Democratic candidate Lucy Flores during a rally in support of Nevada Democrats at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Joint UA Local 525 in Las Vegas Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun, L.E. Baskow) (Photo: L.E. Baskow, AP)

I think it's the same day she is talking about.

[LongtimeAZDem]

16. I know it was the same day; the question is was it before or after the "awkward" moment?

It would seem to be afterward, because they were sequestered before the rally. If so, then she clearly doesn't seem to be in any way upset. He took one, she took one:



If it was before, then she had already gotten into comfortable close contact with him, and so her “Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?” seems disingenuous.

[Cha]

19. The whole thing seems disingenuous to me..

I thought I understood that her story was it happened as she was waiting to go on.. so these selfies would be taken after the alleged evolving story.



Thanks for the pic, LongtimeAZDem..

[Cha]

22. Mahalo for that addional

information, MrsCoffee..

[Autumn]

9. Of course she's going to take a picture with the second most powerful man in the world who was

there on stage to campaign for her. Should she have slapped the Vice President of the United States? Of course not.

[ehrnst]

10. I find it interesting that Flores knew that harassment was going on in other POTUS campaigns,

DURING the campaigns, when that other candidate himself stated that he had no idea that it was going on in his campaign.

[Cha]

21. Exactly, ehrnst.. Excellent point!

Sanders says he did not know about sexual harassment allegations during campaign

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142234955

No communication?

[BlueFlorida]

11. K&R nt

[LongtimeAZDem]

12. She took one too

She clearly had no discomfort with physical contact at this point:

[MelissaB]

14. Lordy, lordy, lordy!

Thanks!

[Beringia]

17. And she said she felt like she wanted the earth to swallow her whole

It certainly does not appear so in this photo.

I think she is exploiting the MeToo movement.

[Botany]

15. I wonder who or whom is paying her to bring up that crap?

[Delphinus]

18. Could Roger Stone,

or one of his ilk, be behind this? Similar to Al Franken's accuser?

[Cha]

20. Note to Flores.. don't say you were

made to "feel uncomfortable" in an accusation.. when there were pictures taken at the same event to belie your allegations.

Link to tweet

Vice President Joe Biden takes a selfie with Nevada Lt. Governor Democratic candidate Lucy Flores during a rally in support of Nevada Democrats at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Joint UA Local 525 in Las Vegas Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun, L.E. Baskow) (Photo: L.E. Baskow, AP)

MrsCoffee!