Lucy Flores Responds to Joe Biden Statement on ‘Inappropriate’ Touching: ‘This Isn’t the First Time’

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FLORES: Well, I certainly think that it's better than his first statement that they released on Saturday. I'm glad that he's willing to listen. I'm glad that he is clarifying his intentions. 

Frankly, my point was never about his intentions. And they shouldn't be about his intentions. It should be about the women on the receiving end of that behavior. And this isn't the first time and it wasn't the only incident where he was acting inappropriately with women. 

If he is saying that he never believed that that was inappropriate, then, frankly, I think that's a little bit of a disconnect, and not being aware, a...

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FLORES: ... sense of not being aware, because there has been documentation, both in photos, videos, stories that were written. 

Now, that being said, I think that part of the reason why I decided to finally say something is because those behaviors were not being taken very seriously. They were not being considered from the perspective of the woman on the other side of that power dynamic, on the side of -- on the receiving end. 

And I just can't imagine that there was never a situation where someone said to him: "Vice President, Mr. Vice President, your -- you probably should stop doing that. You should probably stop touching women in that way. You should probably keep your hands to yourself."