Cory Booker joins calls for Menendez to resign after bribery charges
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6F30H)
Fellow New Jersey Democratic senator says Bob Menendez should step down in significant blow
In a significant blow to Bob Menendez's hopes of staying in the US Senate while under indictment for corruption, Cory Booker - his fellow New Jersey Democrat - joined calls for the senator to resign.
The details of the allegations against Senator Menendez are of such a nature that the faith and trust of New Jerseyans as well as those he must work with in order to be effective have been shaken to the core," Booker said on Tuesday.
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