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WATCH: Joe Biden responds to claims he has made women feel “uncomfortable”
Published 10:39 4 Apr 2019 BST
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He has vowed to be "more mindful" of personal space.
Joe Biden has responded to claims he has made women uncomfortable in the past, following a series of incidents being brought to light. A number of videos were posted on Twitter that appeared to show Biden acting inappropriately around women, some of whom were teenagers. He has now responded to the claims in a video on his Twitter page, where he claimed that "social norms are changing". He said: "I hear what they're saying. I understand. And I will be much more mindful. That's my responsibility." https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1113515882960052224 Biden was most recently criticised by American politician Lucy Flores for an experience they shared, in which the former American Vice-President made her feel extremely uneasy."I felt him get closer to me from behind," she said.
"He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, 'I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual fuck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?'
"He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused. There is a Spanish saying, “tragame tierra,” it means, 'earth, swallow me whole.'"
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