Sen. Steve Daines, the chairman of Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, has declined to call for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign.
Sen. Steve Daines, the chairman of Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, has declined to call for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign.
  • No Republican senator has publicly called for Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez to resign.
  • But the GOP's Senate campaign arm has been using the scandal to hit vulnerable Democrats.
  • The group's chairman, Sen. Steve Daines, says the matter is "for Democrats to decide."

Not a single Republican senator has called for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign in the wake of his latest indictment.

But that doesn't mean they don't smell a ripe political opportunity.