“It's not just Trump. There’s a number of people who share Trump’s views,” Joe Biden said. | AP Photo Biden suggests some senators talk like Trump about sexual assault

Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday suggested that some of his former Senate colleagues are also guilty of the type of talk that has sent Donald Trump’s campaign into a tailspin.

Campaigning in Las Vegas for Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto, who’s running against current GOP Rep. Joe Heck to fill outgoing Minority Leader Harry Reid’s seat, Biden railed against Trump, saying his recently exposed remarks are “not inconsistent with the way he’s abused power all along.”


In the “Access Hollywood” clip published by The Washington Post last Friday, Trump is heard boasting about sexually assaulting women with impunity because he’s “a star.” While some Republicans rushed to rebuke their standard-bearer and have either rescinded their support or called on him to step aside and let Mike Pence run for president, others have stood behind him, dismissing his lewd comments as ordinary chatter among men in private and maintaining that, despite the revelations, a President Trump is better than electing Hillary Clinton.

“It's not just Trump. There’s a number of people who share Trump’s views,” Biden said, according to a pool report, noting that some are “in the Senate.”

The remarks appear to echo those from Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, who said she had witnessed lawmakers follow through on the actions Trump described.

"I would talk to some of the members of Congress there when I was younger and prettier, them rubbing against girls, sticking their tongues down women's throats who were uninvited, didn't like it," she said after Sunday’s debate, adding, "And some of them, by the way, are on the list of people who won't support Donald Trump because they all ride around on their high horse."

Biden took a swipe at Trump earlier Thursday when he hugged a supporter. “She asked for the hug,” he quipped. And on Wednesday, during a taping of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” Biden said it was “astonishing” Trump “would acknowledge that he engages in textbook sexual assault.”

For his part, Trump has said his language toward women were just words, not actions, and he vehemently denied the latest charges of sexual impropriety with women who came forward Wednesday.