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    Joe Biden's history of unwanted touching threatens to put off women voters

    by Michael Finnegan and Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times Mar 31, 2019 5 minutes

    An allegation that Joe Biden inappropriately touched a Nevada state lawmaker is renewing questions about his appeal to women if he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination.

    The former vice president's decades of vacillation on abortion rights and his handling of Anita Hill's sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas at Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991 were already serious vulnerabilities.

    If Biden launches his third campaign for president, as expected, he will be joining a crowded field of Democratic rivals that includes four women in the U.S. Senate - and at a time when women have been siding strongly with Democrats in national elections.

    Beyond the primaries, the new accusation raises questions about whether Biden, in a general-election contest, would strike a weak contrast with President Donald Trump, who has

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