Ben Kerrigan-
Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy is in ruins after Saturday’s release of a video showing him speaking of women sexually in a chauvinistic way
His comments have caused his image to plummet to new lows in America overnight. A group of senators and House members yesterday, withdrew support for him, some demanding his immediate withdrawal from the race.
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High among the list of those deserting him at the last moment is senator Mccain. “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 sexual assault make it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy.”
Worsening internal tensions, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, refused to appear on Mr. Trump’s behalf at a party gathering in
In a statement, Mr. Pence said he was “offended by the words and actions described by Donald Trump”. Several Republican members of Congress and governors have now turned their backs on Trump, with just one month to go until the elections.
Mr. Trump is said to have been shaken, watching news coverage of the video with a mix of disbelief and horror. Trump said in a videotaped statement, saying, “I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them.”
Trump has resisted calls to leave,saying he would “never drop out of this race in a million years.”
“I haven’t heard from anyone saying I should drop out, and that would never happen, never happen,” Mr. Trump said. “That’s not the kind of person I am. I am in this until the end.” He continued to express confidence of victory, saying ”we can win, we will win,” he said. “We have tremendous support. I think a lot of people underestimate how loyal my supporters are.”
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A couple of hours later, the campaign released a statement from his wife, Melania. “The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me,” she said. “This does not represent the man that I know.”
“I hope people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world,” she said. However, that is wishful thinking. An apology is not good enough when it comes to how such comments can affect the prospects of a candidate winning an election.
Many of his colleagues want Mr.Trump to make way for Mr. Pence to serve as the presidential nominee. On Saturday afternoon, Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the chairman of the Republican Conference, became the most senior Republican to call on Mr. Trump to make way for Mr. Pence.
Republican senator,Kelly Ayotte, of New Hampshire announced in a statement that she would write in Mr. Pence for president instead of Donald Trump.
“I’m a mum and an American first, and I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women,” she wrote on Twitter.
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Mr. Trump is now seen as posing an immediate threat to their own candidacies,that they have abandoned his presidential candidacy. A presidency candidacy, released video footage shows Trump crassly boasting about groping women’s genitals,boasting about on their bodies and generally described women as sex objects who could not resist his advances.
In his video statement released early Saturday, Mr. Trump said: “Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.”
“I pledge to be a better man tomorrow and will never, ever let you down,” he said. He then promised to bring up the sex scandals of Bill Clinton’s presidency and Hillary Clinton’s response to them. However, this will be a lame approach that will be too feeble to change the minds of those voters who have made up their minds to oppose Donald Trump.
Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy is clearly in ruins and will take a miracle to return his relatively weaker ratings than Clinton, back to the close race between the pair, in which Trump was trailing Clinton.