调查新当选议员布莱恩·波因德克斯特性骚扰指控的民主党人
2026年11月13日 美国东部时间下午5:08 / CBS新闻
华盛顿讯——众议院民主党人正在调查针对布莱恩·波因德克斯特的性骚扰指控，后者在上周选举中击败了身陷困境的俄亥俄州共和党众议员马克斯·米勒。
众议院民主党人的竞选分支机构国会众议院民主党竞选委员会（DCCC）周五表示，已聘请一家独立公司调查“任何不当行为案例、进行访谈并收集相关事实”。
“DCCC已得知这些指控并严肃对待，”该组织执行主任朱莉·默茨在一份声明中表示。
波因德克斯特竞选团队的一名发言人称他的行为是“对一名志愿者的善意夸赞”。
“他后来得知这让她感到不适，对此他深感懊悔，”这名发言人在一份声明中表示，“布莱恩得知此事后，我们立即开始与一家外部人力资源公司合作，以查明真相。无论是布莱恩还是其竞选团队，都绝不希望任何人感到不适。”
此次调查正值国会努力改革处理性行为不端指控的方式之际，此前已有多名议员面临相关投诉。
DCCC是从两个政治行动委员会——蓝狗PAC和国会进步核心小组PAC——得知这一指控的，这两个委员会表示，他们在选举前的最后几天收到了一起涉嫌性骚扰的报告。
“我们已告知DCCC，并为相关人士对接了法律倡导和支持服务，以便她能够决定如何推进，”这两个PAC在周五的一份联合声明中表示，“该人士要求我们不要公开此事的任何细节，因为她不希望自己的身份曝光，且希望有机会在保护自己的同时决定如何推进此事。”
这两个PAC表示，他们已撤回对波因德克斯特的背书，“直至调查完成”。
Democrats investigating sexual harassment allegation against newly elected congressman Brian Poindexter
November 13, 2026 / 5:08 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — House Democrats are investigating an allegation of sexual harassment against Brian Poindexter, who defeated embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller of Ohio in last week’s elections.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats’ campaign arm, said Friday that it had hired an independent firm to investigate “any instance of inappropriate behavior, conduct interviews and gather the facts.”
“The DCCC has been made aware of the allegations and takes them seriously,” the group’s executive director, Julie Merz, said in a statement.
A spokesperson for Poindexter’s campaign characterized his actions as “an innocuous compliment to a volunteer.”
“He heard later that it made her feel uncomfortable and he felt awful,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “When Brian learned about this, we immediately began to work to get to the bottom of it with an outside HR firm. Neither Brian nor the campaign ever wants anyone to feel uncomfortable.”
The investigation comes as Congress grapples with how to overhaul how it handles allegations of sexual misconduct as numerous lawmakers have faced complaints.
The DCCC was made aware of the allegations from two political action committees — the Blue Dog PAC and the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC — which said they were informed of a report of alleged sexual harassment in the final days before the election.
“We informed the DCCC and connected the individual with legal advocacy and support services so she could determine how she wanted to proceed,” the PACs said in a joint statement Friday. “The individual requested that we did not disclose any details about this publicly because she did not want her identity becoming public and she wanted an opportunity to determine how she wanted to proceed while protecting herself.”
The PACs said they pulled their endorsements from Poindexter “pending the investigation being completed.”
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