Al Franken did more to take on Trump than Kirsten Gillibrand ever did, or will do

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129. Polls taken recently when Franken's groping hasn't been in the news

On the other hand, this one taken when it was in the news had half saying he needed to resign and only 22% saying he shouldn't.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/22/al-franken-senate-resign-poll-257554

But public polling isn't exactly the be all end all, especially given how fractured it can be by party. A vast majority of Republicans didn't want Roy Moore to withdraw from the Senate race in Alabama. But even if the public was/is against him resigning doesn't change the moral calculus. He repeatedly groped women. We have the same level of evidence against him as we have for Donald Trump, Roy Moore, Harvey Weinstein etc. If you believe the women in those cases, and only not against Franken because he's a Democrat, you're putting party over principle. You either believe all of the women who accused Franken are lying because he's such an immaculate hero (if he was, he wouldn't have taken that pretend groping picture) or that those women should deal with it because Franken is more important.

You can't have it both ways. People can't say Trump should resign or Moore should have withdrawn if you then say Franken needed an ethics investigation. Frankly the ethics investigation would have been a joke, they almost always are. Neither house in Congress should be able to investigate itself. Just like the police shouldn't.