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Has Joe Biden's potential 2020 run been fatally injured by Lucy Flores?

Joe Biden And Lucy Flores - Getty Images

Lucy Flores with Vice President Biden. Getty Images North America

We've all seen the numerous pictures of former Vice President Joe Biden in awkward kisses or embraces with women and girls ver the years. And we've all heard the "oh that's just Joe" comments, but now one Democratic Party politician has come forward and may have torpedoed a potential 2020 run for the Presidency before it has even begun.

Lucy Flores was making a run at the Lt. Governors' office in Nevada and has now accused the formerVice President of inappropriate conduct during a 2014 campaign event.

Writing in New York's The Cut magazine, Flores recalls waiting to go on stage at the event with the Vice President standing behind her with his hands on her shoulders. “Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?” she recalled.

She then says Biden sniffed her hair and “proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head.”

“The vice-president of the United States of America had just touched me in an intimate way reserved for close friends, family, or romantic partners,” she wrote and went on “Is it enough of a transgression if a man touches and kisses you without consent, but doesn’t rise to the level of what most people consider sexual assault? I did what most women do, and moved on with my life and my work.”

Biden's office issued a statement which said “Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff with him at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable, nor do they recall what she describes. But Vice President Biden believes that Ms. Flores has every right to share her own recollection and reflections, and that it is a change for better in our society that she has the opportunity to do so. He respects Ms. Flores as a strong and independent voice in our politics and wishes her only the best.”

So will this sink his potential campaign before it has even launched?

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