Warren Endorses Biden
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We ran the numbers: There are 1522 news articles covering this topic. 31% (469) are left leaning, 50% (764) center, 19% (289) right leaning.
On Wednesday, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren formally backed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, over a month after she ended her own campaign. While left-leaning articles highlight that Democrats endorse Biden’s empathy, right-leaning articles highlight sexual assault allegations against Biden.
A left-leaning article by CNN highlights that nearly every top Democrat says that Biden is a man defined by his decency and empathy. When Warren backed Biden on Wednesday, she said that the “unspeakable tragedy” Biden has faced “animate the empathy he extends to Americans who are struggling -- no matter what their story.”
NPR published a centrist article reporting that in response to Warren’s endorsement, Biden said that “there was no competitor more passionate in her convictions or sharper in her arguments than Senator Elizabeth Warren.” The article also notes that the longtime rift between Warren and Biden changed just over a week after Warren exited the race, when Biden announced his support for Warren’s proposed bankruptcy plan, which includes removing parts of the 2005 bankruptcy bill.
A right-leaning article by Fox News reports that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spoke out about the newly surfaced sexual assault allegation against Biden made by Tara Read, his former staffer. Reade claimed Biden put his hands on her shoulders and rubbed his fingers up and down her neck.