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Nate Silver Says Dems Missed Opportunity With Franken Response

Daily Caller

Polling aggregation website founder Nate Silver believes the Democratic Party should have been tougher in responding to the sexual harassment allegations against Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken.

Silver, the editor-in-chief of ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight, wrote an op-ed Thursday titled “Democrats Missed A Chance To Draw A Line In The Sand On Sexual Misconduct.” Democrats should have called for Franken to resign after news anchor Leeann Tweeden said he sexually harassed her multiple times during a USO entertainment tour in the Middle East in 2006, Silver wrote.

Silver said he assumed that Franken would resign, and he expected Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top Democrats to call for his resignation due to the countless sexual misconduct allegations that have emerged in recent months.

“I thought the Democrats had an opportunity to maintain the moral high ground without having to pay a political price for it,” he said.

Silver also predicts that many more allegations of sexual misconduct are going to emerge, which will cause many politicians in both parties to be removed or forced to resign.

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