Only 22 percent of Minnesota voters think that Democrat Sen. Al Franken should remain in office after fielding sexual harassment allegations over the past week, a KSTP/SurveyUSA poll released Wednesday found.

KABC radio anchor Leeann Tweeden shocked the nation last week when she penned an article in which she accused Franken of forcibly kissing her in 2006 before he was elected to the Senate. Tweeden also provided a photo of Franken groping her while she appeared to be asleep. On Monday, CNN reported that another woman, Lindsay Menz, accused Franken of grabbing her buttocks during a photo op at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010, almost two years after Franken was first elected to the U.S. Senate.

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After the allegations came to light, KSTP/SurveyUSA conducted a survey with 600 Minnesotans on Monday night. Just 22 percent of respondents said they thought Franken should stay in the Senate, while 33 percent urged him to resign outright. Another 36 percent said that no decision should be made until after the Senate Ethics Committee has conducted its investigation into the allegations against the Minnesota Democrat. Ten percent said they were unsure what should happen.

Should Franken choose to remain in office, just 32 percent said they believed he could be an “effective” senator, while 37 percent said he’d risk being “ineffective.” Thirty-two percent said they are unsure of whether Franken still could be an “effective” senator.

The KSTP/SurveyUSA poll found that just 34 percent of Democrats, 12 percent of Republicans, and 22 percent of independents believe Franken should remain in office. Meanwhile, 14 percent of Democrats, 61 percent of Republicans and 30 percent of independents believe Franken should resign from office immediately without waiting for the results of an ethics investigation.

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In addition, a Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday that surveyed 2,586 registered voters across the country found that 50 percent believe Franken should resign while 22 percent think he should remain in office. Sixty-six percent of voters polled said the Senate’s ethics panel should investigate Franken’s conduct and the allegations against him. Only 15 percent said there was no need for an ethics investigation.

For his own part, Franken staunchly refused to resign from the Senate. His spokesperson told the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday that the senator “is spending time with his family in Washington, D.C., and will be through the Thanksgiving holiday,” adding that Franken is “doing a lot of reflecting.”

(photo credit, homepage images: Al Franken, CC BY-SA 4.0, by Lorie Shaull)