Pence ‘offended’ by Trump remarks

“Donald Trump’s exploitation of women knows no bounds”, unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial nominee and former Fort Worth state Sen.

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called the comments “vile degradations”. “Grab ’em by the p***y”. “I still haven’t made up my mind about how exactly I will vote next month. She was married”, Trump said about one woman, before discussing his attraction to others.

“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful – I just start kissing them”, Trump can be heard saying. It’s like a magnet. “I just start kissing them”, he said. “And if Russian Federation chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo”. You can do anything. “You can do anything”, Trump said into a hot mic. “Grab ’em by the (expletive)”.

The release included a quote attributed to Teachout criticizing Faso for supporting Trump.

House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan withdrew an invitation for Trump to visit Wisconsin on Saturday and there were some calls for the NY businessman to step aside to let his vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, become the party’s standard-bearer. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expressed consternation.

The GOP leadership rushed to condemn his statements, some Republican lawmakers withdrew their endorsements and donors looked to fund an effort to back someone else as the nominee, even though it would be almost impossible to make a switch with the election just one month away. Senator John Thune, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, tweeted that Trump should withdraw.

In 2013, McConnell, Chaffetz and Lee all voted against the reauthorization of the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act. Many Republicans are speaking of women not as equals inherently deserving of respect, but instead as people deserving and requiring the protection of men.

Neither are Ryan or Pence exactly friends to women. In the video, Trump is heard saying that his fame allows him to “do anything” to women.

Charlie Wolf, a Republican commentator, said that Trump’s statements were indefensible.

It’s 2016. Why isn’t it obvious to Republicans that women are equals?

Since the post-mortem rendered by pundits of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Republican operatives and politicians have been anonymously quoted as wishing that Pence were at the top of the ticket. “This is the kind of thing that can make that challenging”. But it probably won’t.

Privately, even Republicans who didn’t formally revoke their support for Trump conceded there was little he could do to right his campaign at this point. LeMieux, a lifelong Republican who served as chairman of the Broward Young Republicans two decades ago, then chairman of the Broward Republican Party, and as a USA senator from 2009 to 2011, has never before publicly not supported one of his party’s candidates.

Trump apologized on Friday, issuing the following statement: “This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago”. Rump declined to say anything more.

Former president Bill ClintonBill ClintonFor conservative voters, issues “Trump” words, bad as they are Trump apologizes for lewd comments about women: I was wrong Cardona op-ed: We can not elect a pervert and pig president MORE has been accused of sexual assault by Kathleen Willey and of rape by Juanita Broaddrick. He then continues: “And Hillary has attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims”.

The clarification was just one of several Pence has been forced to offer in recent days as he seeks to defend a candidate who can come across as imprecise, and has taking numerous, sometimes contradictory positions on a number of issues over the course of the campaign.

That could change with Friday’s news and Sunday’s debate.

You might want to put the kids to bed first. Right-wing broadcaster Glenn Beck, The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, Washington Post columnist George Will, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and former Central Intelligence Agency and NSA director Michael Hayden have also spoke out against Trump.