Last week, podcaster Katie Halper, an avid fan of presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, released an episode of her podcast containing a shocking accusation: In an interview, Alexandra Tara Reade, who briefly worked for former Vice President Joe Biden when he was in the U.S. Senate, said that Biden had sexually assaulted her in 1993, pinning her up against a wall and digitally penetrating her during an encounter on Capitol Hill.

It's a good thing for Joe Biden that he's not a Republican and that the only news story getting attention is the one about the pandemic - because if Biden were running for president under the GOP banner, and if the virus weren't the only story on the radar screen, he'd be in real trouble right about now. A woman named Tara Reade, who worked for then-Sen. Biden in the 1990s, claims he sexually assaulted her in 1993.