More than 20 called for Trump to end his presidential bid. It had been hoped that Trump would use the second debate to bring up issues that hardly, if at all, came up in the first one: Hillary’s Clinton’s emails and the FBI investigation into her, the Benghazi attacks, questions surrounding the ethics of the Clinton Foundation, among other topics. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is also in headlines for a Wikileaks email dump that included alleged excerpts of her speeches to Wall Street banks.
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With his campaign in crisis, USA presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed on Saturday to stay in the race despite calls from more than two dozen prominent Republicans for him to drop out following the release of a recording of him making lewd comments about women. “That was no apology, that was an apology for getting caught”, he said. “This could cost him a couple of points”.
Martha Roby, a Republican member of Congress from the conservative state of Alabama, also withdrew her support. “I think it’s a serious problem for them, and it’s something that I’m considering talking about more in the near future”. Those numbers haven’t improved since.
“I’ve said some foolish things”, Mr Trump said in a video posted on his Facebook page early on Saturday.
By Saturday, about a dozen senators, a dozen members of the House of Representatives and three governors – all Republicans – had withdrawn their support.
“It’s no excuse, but this happened 11 years ago”, said Bush, who this summer was named a host of the third hour of NBC’s “Today” show.
Several other Republicans did take the extraordinary step of revoking support for their party’s nominee one month from election day and with early voting already under way in some key states.
Trump captured the Republican Party nomination in no small measure because of his performance in the numerous primary debates.
In the first debate almost two weeks ago, Clinton asked Trump why he had refused to release his tax information and what he was hiding. Especially if support for Johnson and Stein erodes as the election nears–the usual pattern for third-party candidates–the eventual victor will nearly certainly need to attract more than that to prevail. Trump has been stuck around 40 percent primarily because he is underperforming any previous Republican nominee among college-educated white voters. New Jersey governor Chris Christie and former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani are thought to have played a much closer role this time around, after Roger Stone and Roger Ailes – two media veterans without extensive political experience – were blamed for encouraging him to skip lengthy preparations for the first debate.
Many criticized Trump for his comments since the recording emerged as Clinton took it to her Twitter account to comment on the matter, saying: “This is horrific”. “We can not allow this man to become president”. “It doesn’t mean they act like that when they were 40”.
Men like Trump exist because men like Bush exist. Young men at universities need opportunities in their classes and elsewhere on campus to see women differently, develop more progressive perspectives about women’s roles and worth in our society and undo ways they have been socialised to view and talk about women. “The real story is that people have no idea the support”, he said by phone from the Trump Tower.
But the latest revelations, he says, “makes gender identity really raw and powerful”.
That adds a new dynamic, especially given the size differential between the 6-foot-3 Trump and Clinton, who’s closer to 5-foot-5. Over the past generation, the share of voters splitting their ballots between the presidential and Congressional contests had steadily declined.
Late yesterday, the defiant Republican presidential nominee stepped outside of his Trump Tower skyscraper in NY, brandishing his fist to cheers from dozens of supporters.
But that doesn’t mean those candidates can survive any deficit.
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Trump released a videotaped, half-hearted apology on Friday night amid the firestorm, in which he quickly pivoted to attacking Bill Clinton’s alleged abuse of women. Kelly Ayotte said. “I will not be voting for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton and instead will be writing in Gov. Pence for president on Election Day”. “He is in the race to win”, Giuliani added.
