Al Franken, a comedian who served as Minnesota's Democratic U.S. senator before resigning due to sexual misconduct allegations, has said that he considers the possibility of running for Senate again "tempting."

In a recent interview, Washington Post reporter Jonathan Capehart asked Franken if he would ever run for function again.

"I don't know," Franken answered. "I certainly loved my time in the Senate. I loved the task. I got a lot washed. I was able to accomplish things I couldn't achieve anywhere else, I don't recollect. So, yeah, it would be tempting to try to exercise that again."

"At some point?" Capeheart asked.

Franken responded, "Mayhap. I'yard simply 70." Franken then noted that Republican Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is also running for re-ballot at 88 years old.

Capeheart responded, "Well, yous've got all the time in the globe."

"Yes, I do," Franken responded, laughing.

Al Franken considers running for Senate again
Al Franken, a former 'Sabbatum Night Live' comedian who served as a Democratic U.S. senator for Minnesota, has said he considers the possibility of running for Senate once more "tempting." In this photo, Franken speaks to the crowd during a gathering on November 4, 2008, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota. Cory Ryan/Getty

In response to Franken's comment, Occupy Democrats, a grassroots political arrangement with over 251,400 Twitter followers, asked its followers to retweet their post if they supported Franken running again. After about one hour, the organisation's post had over three,300 retweets. The mail's 206 commenters felt alternately delighted and opposed to Franken's possible return to politics.

"Every video I saw of him while belongings that seat, he appeared thorough, prepared and remarkably sharp," Twitter user @MichaelStreiter wrote. "He should never accept resigned and would be a real benefit to all Democrats to have him back."

Another Twitter user, @TIFFLS, wrote, "Not sure. I didn't/don't think he should have resigned. But, I lost a lot of respect for/trust in him when he did, and I'm not sure I want him back."

Franken resigned from his Senate seat on Jan 2, 2018, later on eight women accused the senator of sexual misconduct. His resignation occurred near the kickoff of the #MeToo movement, when women began making sexual harassment allegations against other high-profile men, such as film producer Harvey Weinstein, comedian Louis C.K., TV journalist Matt Lauer and hip-hop producer Russell Simmons.

The starting time allegation against Franken came from Leeann Tweeden, a conservative talk-radio host, who posted a 2006 epitome of Franken making grabbing hands toward her breasts as she slept in military fatigues and a bulletproof vest. At the time, she and Franken were co-starring in a 2-calendar week United Services Organisation (USO) show for military service members. She accused Franken of inappropriately tongue kissing her during a rehearsal for one of their sketches.

Tweeden, a Trump follower who supported the "birther" conspiracy theory calling on former President Barack Obama to publicly reveal his birth document, bankrupt the news on a right-wing conservative radio station afterwards because the possibility of having Play a trick on News help break her story.

In his apology to Tweeden, Franken wrote, "There'due south no excuse, and I understand why you could feel violated by that photo. I remember that rehearsal differently, but what's important is the bear upon it had on you—and you lot felt violated by my actions, and for that I apologize."

Tweeden accepted his apology, and said that she wasn't asking him to resign. Nonetheless, seven more than women—three who remained unnamed—came forward soon after, accusing Franken of inappropriate touching and attempting to kiss them without their consent.

3 dozen Democratic senators demanded Franken's resignation, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand being among the beginning.

"Senator Franken was accused credibly by eight women of groping and forceable kissing," Gillibrand said. "All were corroborated in existent time. Two of them were since he was a senator. And the last i that came to light was a congressional staffer."

Not all of the accusations were corroborated, according to PolitiFact.

Ricki Seidman, a Democratic communications consultant who worked with Anita Hill equally she brought sexual harassment claims to low-cal during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Courtroom confirmation hearings, criticized Gillibrand for demanding Franken's resignation.

"Equally a victim of sexual assail, you are cheapening my feel by leading a call for Senator Franken, who has been a champion for women, to stride downwardly based on the flimsy accounts that have come to light to date," Seidman wrote. "Knowing of far worse beliefs in the Senate, and FAR worse behavior amongst Republicans like Donald Trump and Roy Moore, the fact that you are equating Senator Franken with them, I find abhorrent and INSULTING to women."

Nine current and former senators who demanded his resignation have since said that they were wrong to do and then, according to Jane Mayer, a reporter for The New Yorker.

Most of the senators mentioned by Mayer said the allegations against Franken should have had been scrutinized by the Senate Ethics Commission or at least been subject to a fuller examination by an independent investigative body.

Franken said that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told him he needed to resign or else he would be censured and stripped of committee assignments. Schumer and his Democratic colleagues denied him the privilege of due procedure, he connected, calculation that major publications didn't vet his accusers' stories before repeating them.

In a statement to The New Yorker, Schumer said, "Al Franken'south conclusion to footstep down was the right conclusion—for the proficient of the Senate and the skilful of the land. I regret losing him equally a colleague but given the circumstances, it was inevitable."

Newsweek has reached out to Al Franken for comment.