Joe Biden

Allegations of inappropriate physical contact

Biden has been accused of inappropriate contact with women at public events, such as embracing, kissing, gripping, or placing a hand on their shoulder. He has described himself as a "tactile politician" and admitted this behavior has caused trouble for him in the past. alleged that Biden had touched her without her consent at a 2014 campaign rally in Las Vegas. In an op-ed, Flores wrote that Biden had walked up behind her, put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair, and kissed the back of her head, adding that the way he touched her was "an intimate way reserved for close friends, family, or romantic partners—and I felt powerless to do anything about it." Two days later, Amy Lappos, a former congressional aide to , said Biden touched her in a non-sexual but inappropriate way by holding her head to rub noses with her at a political fundraiser in Greenwich in 2009. In April 2019, former Biden staffer said she had felt uncomfortable on several occasions when Biden touched her on her shoulder and neck during her employment in his Senate office in 1993..

Biden was elected the 46th in November 2020, defeating the incumbent , the first sitting president to lose re-election since in He is also expected to become the at the time of inauguration, as well as the first president from . Biden is expected to be at noon on January 20, 2021.