<P> Claire is aware of Frank's sexual relationship with reporter Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) and approves of it as long as it achieves their ends . She herself has an affair with an old boyfriend, Adam Galloway (Ben Daniels). </P> <P> By the end of the season, Walker appoints Frank the Vice President of the United States, making Claire the Second Lady of the United States . </P> <P> Claire's main storyline in season 2 is her advocacy, as Second Lady, for a sexual assault prevention bill . During her campaign for the bill, a secret from her college days emerges: during a nationally televised interview, she admits that she was raped in college and that her rapist, Dalton McGinnis (Peter Bradbury), is now a high - ranking general . (She had earlier had an uncomfortable encounter with McGinnis at a White House dinner, during which she had told Frank what the general had done to her .) She also admits to having aborted a pregnancy that she claims was the result of the rape; it is later revealed that she in fact aborted Frank's child, with his consent . She then converts the focus on that issue into political support that becomes critical to the Underwoods' ascension to the Oval Office . </P> <P> Claire becomes increasingly ruthless as the season progresses . When Galloway leaks an intimate photo of Claire to appease his jealous fianceé, Claire intimidates him into publicly stating that he fabricated the picture, ruining his reputation . When Gillian Cole (Sandrine Holt), a pregnant former employee, returns to demand health care as part of her severance, Claire says, "I am willing to let your child wither and die inside you, if that's what's required,...Am I really the sort of enemy you want to make?" Claire also manipulates First Lady Patricia Walker (Joanna Going) into believing that her husband is having an affair in order to distract President Walker from Frank's machinations . </P>

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