{"id":2003869,"date":"2023-08-17T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-bob-menendez-approval-rating-drops-as-latest-criminal-investigation-plagues-senator-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:24:58","slug":"sen-bob-menendez-approval-rating-drops-as-latest-criminal-investigation-plagues-senator-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-bob-menendez-approval-rating-drops-as-latest-criminal-investigation-plagues-senator-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Bob Menendez&#8217;s approval rating declines due to ongoing criminal investigation: Poll."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-bob-menendez-approval-rating-drops-as-latest-criminal-investigation-plagues-senator-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2003869&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. Bob Menendez&#8217;s Approval Ratings Drop Amid Federal Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>Approval ratings for Sen. Bob Menendez \u200c(D-NJ) have taken\u200b a hit as he \u2063faces a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles 'Anonymous' Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">federal investigation<\/a> into unreported gifts received by him and his wife. According to the latest Monmouth University Poll, the New Jersey Democrat has received a negative 35% approval and 44%\u200d disapproval rating.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Impact\u200b on Serving Capabilities<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Six in 10 state residents believe that the ongoing investigation into Menendez significantly affects his ability to serve. However, interestingly,\u200b only 19% of Democrats share \u2062this belief, compared to \u200c36% \u2064of Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Department of Justice Investigation<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Department of Justice\u200b launched \u2063a criminal investigation\u200c in May, questioning the origins of assets such as a \u200dMercedes-Benz, \u2064a luxury Washington, D.C., apartment, jewelry,\u2062 and\u200c more, owned by Menendez and\u200b his wife.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Menendez&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A \u200cspokesperson\u200b for Menendez dismissed the investigation as a\u200d politically-motivated smear campaign, stating that \u200cthe senator remains focused on his work in Washington and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Past\u2064 Controversies<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This\u200b is not the first time Menendez has \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-j-gov-murphy-calls-for-independent-investigation-into-cuomo-but-wont-say-if-dem-peer-should-resign\/\" title=\"N.J. Gov. Murphy calls for \u2018independent investigation\u2019 into Cuomo, but won\u2019t say if Dem peer should resign\">faced similar accusations<\/a>. In 2015, he was indicted on charges of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-criminal-corruption-investigation-into-democrat-senator-bob-menendez-expands-with-new-subpoenas\/\" title=\"Democrat Senator Bob Menendez faces more subpoenas in federal corruption investigation.\">accepting luxury vacations<\/a>, gifts, and\u200c campaign donations. However, a \u2062mistrial was declared in\u2064 2018, and all charges against Menendez and his associate were subsequently\u2063 dismissed by the DOJ.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Impact on Approval Ratings<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Patrick Murray, director of the \u2064independent Monmouth University Polling Institute,\u200b noted that the current investigation seems to have a greater impact \u200con public opinion\u200b compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-bob-menendez-approval-rating-drops-as-latest-criminal-investigation-plagues-senator-poll\/\" title=\"Sen. Bob Menendez's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">approval rating<\/a> declines due to ongoing criminal investigation: Poll.&#8221;>previous ethical battles faced<\/a> by Menendez.\u200d In 2015, his\u2062 approval rating was 42% with a 38% disapproval \u200crating, and in 2018, it was 37%\u2063 approval and \u206338% disapproval.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to \u200cread more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out to Menendez&#8217;s office for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approval ratings for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) have plummeted amid a federal probe into undisclosed gifts received by him and his wife. The recent Monmouth University Poll shows a disheartening 35% approval and 44% disapproval rating for the New Jersey Democrat. Around 60% of state residents view the ongoing investigation into Menendez as either concerning or suspicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2003870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}