CA-GOV: Katie Porter calls on Swalwell to resign from Congress

[karynnj]

47. I remember Tara Reid and I remember the lie about Kerry

One BIG difference is the reaction of the people around those candidates, which was to say they did not believe it because it was completely out of character. In Kerry's case, the woman herself denied the story. A second difference is that there are now multiple women.

Another thing is that this doesn't have a clear advantage for the Republicans. There were two other candidates essentially tied with him and eliminating anyone of the three made the two Republican scenario less likely.

The speed which with his peers abandoned him suggests that they at least thought it possible. Back when the Tara Reid stuff happened, a staffer for someone else that I slightly knew through others, commented that the staffers knew " which legislators not to get into an empty elevator with ... and Biden was not one of them