The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1:

• A new Washington Post/ABC News survey indicates that presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump has a 9-point lead over President Joe Biden—51% to 42%. Interestingly, Trump holds a 20-point lead over Biden with voters under the age of 35 in the hypothetical rematch.
• Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has been charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for providing Egypt with “sensitive U.S. government information.” During a Friday press conference announcing a three-count indictment, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams explained that federal prosecutors found $500,000 in cash, as well as gold bars, in Sen. Menendez’ home—some of which contained fingerprints or DNA of Fred Daibes, a real estate developer also accused of bribing Menendez and his wife Nadine. According to The New York Times, Daibes pled guilty to financial crimes in 2022. Senator Menendez and his wife have both denied the criminal conduct alleged by prosecutors. You can read more about the story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/nyregion/robert-menendez-indicted.html
• On Monday, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) held a press conference to address charges of corruption. Menendez insisted he was innocent and explained that he held nearly half-a-million in cash at his home for “emergencies.”
• In an article for NJ.com, Tom Moran writes: “Look past the bars of gold, the envelopes stuffed with cash, and the shiny new Mercedes parked in the garage of Sen. Robert Menendez. Bad as that stench is, it’s far from the worst of it. For that, you need to cast an eye to the torture chambers run by Egypt’s military dictatorship, where security goons rape women to pressure their husbands in the next cell, where they clamp metal grips to men’s genitals and shock them into submission, where they hang teens by their arms, tied behind their back, and leave them until their shoulders dislocate. That’s the dictatorship that Menendez has been helping since 2018, according to the federal indictment dropped Friday.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2023/09/gold-bars-for-menendez-torture-for-jailed-egyptians-moran.html
• Congressman Andy Kim (D-NJ)—who represents New Jersey’s 3rd District—has announced that he will challenge Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in New Jersey’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. You can read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/23/politics/menendez-andy-kim-senate/index.html