It would be a breath of fresh air to actually come across a politician who is NOT a neoliberal. It’s easy to see how it might trump any other reservations.

Well “the 2% of rape claims are false” is based on a study of recanted accusations only, not even conclusively disproved accusation through other means, like literal physical impossibility of rape. And even according to this heavily biased and entirely unreasonable criteria the entire quote states “2% - 8%”.