first it was members of Congress and Governor Murphy calling for embattled Senator Bob Menendez to resign and now a little less than a month after being indicted on federal bribery charges it appears most new jerseyans want the senior senator to go too a new fairly Dickenson University poll finds 70% of the state's residents want Menendez to resign rather than serve out the remainder of his term according to the survey released today Menendez lost support of Voters AC cross political parties the results also suggest the corruption case against him could lead some independent voters to turn to Republican candidates poll director Dan Casino says Menendez was able to weather previous corruption charges which ended in a hung jury in 2018 but this time the public doesn't seem to be behind him the poll comes just a week after Federal authorities also charged the senator of acting as a foreign agent for Egypt Menendez has denied any wrongdoing and is so far refusing to resign