(Reuters) – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday voiced his support for the U.S. women’s soccer team, a day after it suffered a setback in its gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation.
FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the 11th Democratic candidates debate of the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, held in CNN’s Washington studios without an audience because of the global coronavirus pandemic, in Washington, U.S., March 15, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
The team’s claims for equal pay were dismissed by a court on Friday, handing a victory to U.S. Soccer.
“Don’t give up this fight. This is not over yet,” Biden wrote in a tweet to the team.
“Equal pay, now. Or else when I’m president, you can go elsewhere for World Cup funding,” Biden added to the federation.
The former vice president is looking to unseat incumbent Republican Donald Trump in November’s U.