Franken making announcement Thursday amid calls to resign
Sen. Al Franken, (D-MN) speaks to the media after returning back to work in the Senate on Capitol Hill on November 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing growing demands for him to resign, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken will make an announcement on Thursday.
That's the word from the Democrat's office on Wednesday.
Franken's support among his fellow Democrats is collapsing as a host of female Democratic senators called upon him to quit.
Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Patty Murray, D-Wash., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., all called on Franken to step down.
The calls came as another woman accused Franken of sexual misconduct in an account to Politico.
The woman, who's not identified by name, says Franken pursued her after her boss had left and she was collecting her belongings.
She says she ducked to avoid his lips. And she says Franken told her: "It's my right as an entertainer."
The Minnesota Democrat says in a statement that the allegation -- reported by Politico -- is "categorically not true.
Franken says in his statement that the idea he'd claim such behavior as a right as an entertainer is "preposterous."