Al Franken to resign from Senate

U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota, announced yesterday he’ll step down amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.

Though he continued to deny allegations of groping and unwanted advances, Franken said he would step down in the “coming weeks.”

“There is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party,” Franken said in a speech on the Senate floor.

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