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| Subject: MSNBC: Menendez Can ‘Hang On’ to Senate Seat ‘Months’ After Corruption Conviction Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:13 am | |
| Discussing the corruption trial of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday, political analyst Steve Kornacki predicted that it would be “unlikely” for Governor Chris Christie to be able to name a Republican to replace the disgraced Democrat, even after a criminal conviction. Why? Because the Senator would simply “hang on” to the seat until a Democrat becomes the state’s new governor in January. “Chris Christie’s term is up...he will be out of the office by the second week of January. So if you were to get a conviction of Menendez in the near-term future, the challenge for Menendez...is could he hang on for a couple months until a Democrat becomes governor of New Jersey?,” Kornacki wondered. He assured the show’s liberal panelists: “I’m almost sure he would do this and I’m almost sure Democrats in the Senate would have his back in doing this.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2017/09/08/msnbc-menendez-can-hang-senate-seat-months-after-corruption |
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