Lewd Donald Trump Tape Is a Breaking Point for Many in the G.O.P.
Lewd Donald Trump Tape Is a Breaking Point for Many in the G.O.P.
By JONATHAN MARTIN, ALEXANDER BURNS and MAGGIE HABERMANOCT. 8, 2016
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party began abandoning Donald J. Trump on Saturday after the release of a video showing him speaking of women in vulgar s*xual terms, delivering a punishing blow to his campaign and plunging the party into crisis a month before the election.
Fearing his candidacy was on the verge of undermining the entire Republican ticket next month, a group of senators and House members withdrew their support for him on Saturday, with some demanding that he step aside. Foremost among them was Senator John McCain of Arizona, the party’s 2008 nominee.
“I thought it important I respect the fact that Donald Trump won a majority of the delegates by the rules our party set,” Mr. McCain said in a statement. “But Donald Trump’s behavior this week, concluding with the disclosure of his demeaning comments about women and his boasts about s*xual assaults, make it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy.”
And in an unheard-of rebuke to his own running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, declined to appear on Mr. Trump’s behalf at a party gathering in Wisconsin and offered him something of an ultimatum on Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Pence said in a statement he was “offended by the words and actions described by Donald Trump” in the video, and cast Mr. Trump’s second debate with Hillary Clinton, on Sunday, as an urgent moment to turn around the campaign.
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Paul Ryan, Reluctant Supporter, Weighs Response to Donald Trump’s Remarks
For months, Speaker Paul D. Ryan had chosen to remain largely silent, hoping that his party’s nominee for president would simply get across the finish line, dragging congressional Republicans across with him.
But a 2005 recording made public on Friday of Donald J. Trump speaking in extraordinarily vulgar terms about women became a new bridge too far across a seemingly endless landmass separating civil behavior and Mr. Trump’s campaign for the presidency.
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Donald Trump’s Apology That Wasn’t
For hours on Friday night, the political world waited for the rarest of expressions from Donald J. Trump — a heartfelt apology.
What viewers got was anything but.
During a 90-second videotaped appearance, Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, offered a strikingly brief articulation of regret for a decade-old audiotape in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitals and said he could have his way with women because of his fame.
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By JONATHAN MARTIN, ALEXANDER BURNS and MAGGIE HABERMANOCT. 8, 2016
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party began abandoning Donald J. Trump on Saturday after the release of a video showing him speaking of women in vulgar s*xual terms, delivering a punishing blow to his campaign and plunging the party into crisis a month before the election.
Fearing his candidacy was on the verge of undermining the entire Republican ticket next month, a group of senators and House members withdrew their support for him on Saturday, with some demanding that he step aside. Foremost among them was Senator John McCain of Arizona, the party’s 2008 nominee.
“I thought it important I respect the fact that Donald Trump won a majority of the delegates by the rules our party set,” Mr. McCain said in a statement. “But Donald Trump’s behavior this week, concluding with the disclosure of his demeaning comments about women and his boasts about s*xual assaults, make it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy.”
And in an unheard-of rebuke to his own running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, declined to appear on Mr. Trump’s behalf at a party gathering in Wisconsin and offered him something of an ultimatum on Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Pence said in a statement he was “offended by the words and actions described by Donald Trump” in the video, and cast Mr. Trump’s second debate with Hillary Clinton, on Sunday, as an urgent moment to turn around the campaign.
READ MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/us/polit...
Paul Ryan, Reluctant Supporter, Weighs Response to Donald Trump’s Remarks
For months, Speaker Paul D. Ryan had chosen to remain largely silent, hoping that his party’s nominee for president would simply get across the finish line, dragging congressional Republicans across with him.
But a 2005 recording made public on Friday of Donald J. Trump speaking in extraordinarily vulgar terms about women became a new bridge too far across a seemingly endless landmass separating civil behavior and Mr. Trump’s campaign for the presidency.
READ MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/us/polit...
Donald Trump’s Apology That Wasn’t
For hours on Friday night, the political world waited for the rarest of expressions from Donald J. Trump — a heartfelt apology.
What viewers got was anything but.
During a 90-second videotaped appearance, Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, offered a strikingly brief articulation of regret for a decade-old audiotape in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitals and said he could have his way with women because of his fame.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/polit...
