He did not indicate whether his decision was linked to claims that he dragged his former girlfriend, Karen Monahan, off a bed and screamed obscenities at her in 2016. Ellison has denied the allegations.

“I need to put 100 percent of my time, energy and resources into the race and into my office,” said Ellison, who is running for Minnesota attorney general. “And so that’s something I am taking consideration on. I’ll put it like this, though: I will be 110 percent for Minnesota all the time, every time, without fail. And so, that is something that we are beginning to evaluate right now.”

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Monahan recently posted online a medical record from 2017 that she has cited as proof that she previously discussed her allegations against Ellison with her doctor.

An attorney connected to the state Democratic Party investigated Monahan’s claims and said they could not be substantiated, because Monahan declined to provide video footage of the alleged incident, according to the Associated Press, which reviewed a draft of the attorney’s report.

Ellison maintained Wednesday that the video “couldn’t possibly exist, because what is alleged didn’t happen.”

The news comes as the issue of sexual misconduct remains at the center of the national political debate. Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard emotional testimony by President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh, and Christine Blasey Ford, the professor who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.

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Ellison has called for the House Ethics Committee to conduct an inquiry into his case.