Event organizer: Biden, accuser were never alone together [View all]

[DonViejo]

BY KYLE BALLUCK - 03/31/19 07:53 AM EDT

The organizer of a Nevada campaign rally said late Saturday that Joe Biden and the former state assemblywoman who accused the former vice president of inappropriate contact at the event were never alone together.

“I have thoroughly reviewed photographic documentation from the event, and spoken to nearly every principle in attendance, as well as staff associated with the event. To the best of our recollection, at no time were Lucy Flores and Vice President Biden alone,” Henry Munoz, co-founder of Latino Victory Project, said in a statement.

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Munoz said in his statement that Biden had his own holding room at the event, while Flores waited in the same room as he and organization leaders, advance staff and campaign staff did.

"In the moments before the Vice President and the candidate went onstage to address supporters and press, they were together just off stage left, and surrounded by security, medical and production staff,” Munoz said.

“Lucy is my good friend and a good friend to Latino Victory, which has strongly supported her political career. I also firmly believe that women need to be supported and heard and that there is a reckoning in our culture that is long overdue. Vice President Biden is also my close friend, to the degree that he presided over my own marriage. These are both individuals that I love and respect,” he said.

“Yet at no time were these two leaders alone together and I, and the organization I cofounded and those in attendance, do not believe that circumstances support allegations that such an event took place,” he added.

A spokesman for Biden told The Hill on Friday that neither the former vice president nor his staff recalled the events described by Flores, but added that Biden believes she has a right to share her recollection.

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