New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim launched a primary challenge to Sen. Bob Menendez on Saturday as more Democrats joined the call for the senior Democratic senator to resign after an indictment on federal bribery charges.
“After calls to resign, Senator Menendez said ‘I am not going anywhere.’ As a result, I feel compelled to run against him. Not something I expected to do, but NJ deserves better. We cannot jeopardize the Senate or compromise our integrity,” Kim said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Menendez and his wife, Nadine, are accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars and a Mercedes-Benz convertible as bribes in exchange for Menendez using his position as senator and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee to aid three New Jersey businessmen who were also charged, and to benefit the Egyptian government.
