前格鲁吉亚民主党州长候选人史黛西·艾布拉姆斯表示，她不相信塔拉·里德对民主党总统候选人、前副总统乔·拜登的性侵犯指控。
“我认为女性应该被倾听，”艾布拉姆斯说副的周二。“我认为他们的指控值得审查。他们应该接受调查。”
艾布拉姆斯说，女性应该有空间来描述她们的经历，但她补充说，如果她相信里德的指控，她不会支持拜登作为候选人。
“我们有义务为那些被冤枉的人伸张正义，”艾布拉姆斯继续说道。“对我来说，如果我认为是这个人干的，那么我就不可能在这个空间里。”
里德提起刑事诉讼四月初与华盛顿警察局合作指责拜登1993年，他把她推到墙上，用手指刺穿她。里德在20世纪90年代担任特拉华州参议员时曾是拜登的助手。
尽管亚伯拉罕之前已经指出她相信拜登否认里德的指控，她的评论在此之前拜登本人否认了这些指控在5月1日MSNBC电视台的现场采访中早上好，乔。“不，这不是真的。我毫不含糊地说这从来没有发生过。但事实并非如此。这从未发生过，”拜登说。
“我相信乔·拜登，”艾布拉姆斯在四月下旬告诉唐·莱蒙。“我认识乔·拜登，我认为他说的是实话，但这并没有发生。”
2019年11月20日，在佐治亚州亚特兰大泰勒·佩里工作室举行的民主党总统辩论前，民主党政治家史黛西·艾布拉姆斯向媒体发表讲话。十名民主党总统候选人从候选人中脱颖而出，参加由MSNBC和《华盛顿邮报》主办的辩论。
在同一天发表的一份声明中，拜登敦促“负责任的新闻机构”去“检查和评估[·里德的故事中不断增长的不一致的全部记录，这些记录已经以大大小小的方式反复改变了。”
“新闻机构与几十名前工作人员进行了交谈，但没有找到一个人——一个也没有——以任何方式证实她的指控，”他的声明继续说道。
拜登在周二接受美国广播公司采访时重申了他的否认早上好，美国，他说，“说到底，真理就是真理。这是应该流行的，事实是这从来没有发生过。这从未发生过。这是事实。”
艾布拉姆斯表示有兴趣成为拜登的竞选伙伴，并表示她可以帮助培养有色人种选民在11月的选举中。
“作为一个在密西西比州长大的年轻黑人女性，我知道如果你不举手，人们不会看到你，也不会关注你，”她解释道当被问及她直言想成为拜登的竞选伙伴时。
STACEY ABRAMS THINKS TARA READE IS LYING ABOUT HER JOE BIDEN SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATION
Former Democratic Georgian gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has said she doesn't believe Tara Reade's sexual assault allegations against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden.
"I believe women deserve to be heard," Abrams told Vice on Tuesday. "I believe their allegations deserve to be vetted. They deserve to have an investigation."
Abrams said women deserve space to describe their experiences, but added that she wouldn't support Biden as a candidate if she believed Reade's allegations.
"We are obliged to serve justice to those who have been wronged," Abrams continued. "For me, if I thought that this man had done that, then I could not be in this space."
Reade filed a criminal complaint with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department in early April accusing Biden of pushing her against a wall and penetrating her with his fingers in 1993. Reade served as a former aide for Biden during his years as Delaware's senator during the 1990s.
Although Abrams has previously indicated that she believed Biden's denials of Reade's allegations, her comment came before Biden himself personally denied them in a live May 1 televised interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "No, it is not true. I'm saying unequivocally it never, never happened. And it didn't. It never happened," Biden said.
"I believe Joe Biden," Abrams told Don Lemon in late April. "I know Joe Biden, and I think that he is telling the truth and that this did not happen."
Democratic politician Stacey Abrams speaks to the media before the Democratic Presidential Debate at Tyler Perry Studios November 20, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls were chosen from the larger field of candidates to participate in the debate hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post.
In a statement issued on the same day, Biden urged "responsible news organizations" to "examine and evaluate the full and growing record of inconsistencies in [Reade's] story, which has changed repeatedly in both small and big ways."
"News organizations that have talked with literally dozens of former staffers have not found one—not one—who corroborated her allegations in any way," his statement continued.
Biden reiterated his denials on a Tuesday interview with ABC's Good Morning America, stating, "At the end of the day, the truth is the truth. That's what should prevail and the truth is this never happened. This never happened. That's the truth."
Abrams has expressed interest in serving as Biden's running mate, saying she could help turn out voters of color in the November election.
"As a young black woman growing up in Mississippi, I learned that if you don't raise your hand, people won't see you and they won't give you attention," she explained when asked about her outspokenness on wanting to be Biden's running mate.
