Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said that while she will support 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden in his White House bid, she also thinks it is important to believe survivors of sexual assault, including a woman who has leveled allegations against the former vice president. Omar appeared on 'Good
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said that while she will support 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden in his White House bid, she also thinks it is important to believe survivors of sexual assault, including a woman who has leveled allegations against the former vice president.
"There's obviously parts of what she has said that have been corroborated and parts that haven't, that is not my place to litigate her story," Omar told"GMA" of Reade's allegations against Biden."I think it's important when someone says they have been assaulted and they see themselves as survivors that we, as we have been saying, believe survivors.""What matters is the truth ...
Omar made waves when she was elected to Congress in 2018, the largest freshmen class of women ever elected to Congress.
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