In April 2020, one of the anonymous callers was asserted to be
Jeanette Altimus, mother of
Tara Reade. The unearthing of this recording, in which Altimus alludes to misconduct by a prominent senator, reinforced Reade's claim of sexual assault by her former employer,
Joe Biden, a U.S. senator from Delaware. In 2020, Biden was the Democrat nominee for president of the United States.