And she’s still backing Joe Biden.
To stop Donald Trump, she says, she’ll vote for the man she thinks may have harmed another woman. The confession stunned even her supporters, ripping open a brutal question: What happens when “believe women” collides with raw political survival? When justice is delayed, and democracy itself feels thr…
Ilhan Omar’s stance exposes the agonizing collision between moral conviction and political urgency. By saying she believes Tara Reade while still supporting Joe Biden, she is not pretending the allegation doesn’t matter; she is insisting it does, yet choosing what she sees as the lesser of two evils. For her, defeating Donald Trump is a moral imperative that does not erase Reade’s story, but overshadows it.
This tension reveals a deeper fracture within progressive politics: the promise to “believe women” meets the cold calculus of electoral power. Omar’s position forces her supporters to confront an uncomfortable truth—systems rarely deliver timely justice, and voters are left to make choices inside that broken reality. Her words are both an indictment and a compromise, a plea that acknowledging harm and preventing greater harm can coexist, even when neither outcome feels remotely just.
