"Neither the Bernie Sanders campaign nor anyone involved in it, planted, planned, persuaded, cajoled or otherwise urged Lucy Flores or anyone else..."
Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) presidential campaign manager Faiz Shakir issued a forceful denial on Tuesday that they had anything to do with the former Nevada state Sen. Lucy Flores' accusation that former Vice President Joe Biden inappropriately touched her in 2014.
On Friday, Flores wrote a piece in New York Magazine's "The Cut" in which she alleged that Biden had inappropriately touched her during a 2014 campaign event.
Another woman came forward on Monday to accuse the former vice president of unwanted touching during a 2009 fundraising event.
Some people in Biden's political circle said they believed that these stories were being pushed by Sanders' campaign in an attempt to weaken the former veep before he announces his presidential campaign. That theory comes from a "top Democratic source" who spoke with The Daily Beast on Tuesday.
"But this is why my blood boils," Shakir added.