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SD Democratic Congressional Candidate Paula Hawks Talks About Past Sexual Assault

SD Democratic Congressional Candidate Paula Hawks Talks About Past Sexual Assault

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The Democratic candidate for South Dakota’s lone U.S. House seat has revealed that she was raped in college. Paula Hawks says she never expected to make public the sexual assault 20 years ago, but had to because of Donald Trump…….

Hawks says she was sexually assaulted by a person in a position of authority over her…….

She says she didn’t report the rape at the time, but that the man got into trouble multiple times and so “justice has been served on that person.”
Hawks says she was “outraged” by the Trump tape and just had to speak out…….

Hawks is running a long shot campaign against Republican Congresswoman Kristi Noem.
Noem has criticized Trumps comments, but says she will still vote for him because she can’t support Hillary Clinton.

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