They’re still playing politics, trying to hold him in ‘coming weeks’ for as many votes as they can.
Franken made the announcement on Thursday, a day after his Senate colleagues called for him to step down.
Al Franken, who successfully made the jump from Saturday Night Live funnyman to media personality to United States senator, announced on Thursday that he’s leaving his seat “in the coming weeks” following a three-week-long wave of sexual misconduct allegations against him that saw his support in the chamber vanish.“I know there’s been a very different picture of me painted over the last few weeks, but I know who I really am,” Franken said on the Senate floor. “Serving in the US Senate has been the great honor of my life. I know in my heart that nothing I have done as a senator, nothing, has brought dishonor on this institution.”
Franken repeated in his speech that “some of the allegations against aren’t true,” but said that women need to be listened to and believed.
“This has been a tough for weeks for me, but I am a very lucky man,” he said. “I have a beautiful, healthy family that I love and that loves me very much. I’m going to be just fine.”