Lucy Flores, a former member of Bernie Sanders’ political group Our Revolution and Nevada assemblywoman, has accused Joe Biden of inappropriate contact during a campaign event in 2014.
Ms Flores was running for lieutenant governor in Nevada at the time when the former vice president’s team arranged an event in which he would endorse her Democratic candidacy.
In an article published in The Cut on Friday afternoon,
“I felt him get closer to me from behind,” she wrote. “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?’”