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Believe in women. “Believe in women”.

The slogan became important to many Democrats as a result of #metoo. What should the party do now when Joe Biden, who is believed to be the Democratic presidential candidate, is charged with sexual assault?

More and more people will listen to an explanation from Biden himself.

Impossible to decide

It’s been over a month since Tara Reade, 56, accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her. It was 1993 and Reade was a young adviser, while Biden was a senator. According to Reade, Biden held her against a wall. He must have penetrated her with his fingers, against her will. The charge is detailed and very serious.

But it is true? It is difficult to prove. And perhaps impossible to decide.

Still, Democrats must deal with the office in a way that does not dismiss women who say they have been abused. In a way that acknowledges and respects the uncertainty and uneasy sentiment that many Democrats now have. And Joe Biden himself has to take the sword out of his mouth.

These are the demands of more and more feminists and progressive voters. Because even though they want to win against Donald Trump, who has increasingly serious charges against him, Biden’s silence begins to become deafening.

Democrats should be the party that values, supports, listens to, and believes in women, says Yvette Simpson, leader of the Democracy for America organization in The New York Times.

Presidential candidate promises

Biden’s election campaign team has sent instructions on how employees should speak up about the charges, which they reject. Biden’s staff is also referring to an investigative case in The New York Times, which finds no evidence of the charges.

According to various sources the newspaper has spoken to, the party leadership has not been particularly concerned with voters who believe in the charges, or that Reade’s story will have a special place in the election campaign.

But on social media, the debate is raging. What should we do with the charges? Many Democrats ask.

A “feminist nightmare”

Joe Biden has promised to find a female vice presidential candidate. Whoever it is will probably have to answer the charges against Biden. Author Rebecca Traister calls the situation a “feminist nightmare.”

“Democrats and feminists are in a terrible situation, and that includes us who never thought Biden was going to be a presidential candidate,” Traister writes in The Cut.

In the Democratic Party, there is growing frustration with Joe Biden’s silence, according to The New York Times.

“If we want to maintain our credibility as a party, we must all agree that this accusation and all allegations must be taken seriously in public,” said Nina Turner, who previously worked for Bernie Sanders.

The accusations in the mainstream media were silent for a long time, despite Tara Reade trying to talk about the incident for many months. The New York Times took 19 days after Reade publicly spoke about the podium charges before mentioning the case. The Washington Post waited 20 days.

Many accusations against Trump

At least 16 women have accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault. Writer E. Jean Carroll accuses the President of rape. His former lawyer Michael Cohen is in jail, including being convicted of paying money to minimize the charges against Trump.

But where Republicans appear to have been able to ignore the allegations, Democrats cannot do the same. The party should take the weak side, they should “believe in women”, believe in women, as Joe Biden himself has said he does.

Double morality is the worst that voters know, says opinion researcher Tresa Undem.

It has long been known that during his long political career Joe Biden has bothered several female employees. He has been accused of long grips, hands that rest too much on his shoulders and knees, and inappropriate behavior. But the allegations of abuse are new.

In recent years, Biden has been marked as a women’s champion. As vice president, he spearheaded legislation that would make it easier to report rapes on college campuses. In 2016, she took the stage with Lady Gaga to end the abuse.

On November 3, American voters, after all, will judge the election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.