Jill Biden Applauds Women’s ‘Courage’ For Speaking Up About Joe’s Touchiness

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Former second lady Jill Biden said Wednesday night that she applauds the “courage” of the women who spoke up about her husband making them uncomfortable with his invasion of their personal space.

“It took a lot of courage for women to step forward and say, you know, ‘you’re in my space.’ Joe heard that,” she told Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah. “And it just won’t happen again.”

Biden has been accused of being too touchy with women in recent months, and eventually put out a video to address the comments.

“The social norms have begun to change and have shifted, and the boundaries of respecting personal space have been reset and I get it. I get it,” he said. “I hear what they’re saying — I understand it. And I’ll be much more mindful – that’s my responsibility. And I’ll meet it.”

Watch Jill Biden’s comments here via Mediaite.

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  1. When can spouses stop being dragged into such things? Why not just let Biden, the one who’s running address it by himself instead of having his wife explain this “women issue”? It’s unfair to many parties (including both of them, the women and maybe other candidates).

  2. It’s “Dr. Jill Biden” to you, thanks!

  3. Melanie applauding her hubby for dialing back the pu**y grabbing in 3, 2, 1…

  4. Hate to say but it happened again like two days ago. Made a fuss over some young girl’s prettiness, put his hands on her shoulders, the usual. Can’t seem to help himself. I’ll support him if he’s the nominee but dude. Just stop.

  5. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    Good cop, Bad cop routine.

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