<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: With Enough Intensity

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Assault and Politics: President Trump lashed out at Senator Al Franken on Twitter after the Minnesota Democrat was accused of forcibly kissing and groping a woman in 2006. The allegations pose a dilemma for the Democratic Party, which is now divided between constituents’ calls for Franken to resign and lawmakers’ political need to keep him in office. Meanwhile, the Republican establishment is pushing Roy Moore to drop out of the U.S. Senate race following reports that he harassed and sexually assaulted teenage girls, but the party’s efforts are being undercut by voters’ distrust of the press. And Democrats are reckoning with the decades-old rape allegations against Bill Clinton—and with the role that Hillary Clinton played in their suppression.