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Senator John Thune is pulling his support for Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump. In a Twitter statement issued Saturday, Thune says "Donald Trump should withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately."
Describing Donald Trump's lewd remarks about groping women, shortly after his third marriage in 2005, as "unacceptable and offensive", his wife Melania Trump today exhorted the people to accept his apology, just as she has. "The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me.
Is it too late to dump Trump? Pressure mounts for the Republicans to abandon the Donald after latest deplorable remarks five weeks before the election As a rift breaks out in the Republican party over Donald Trump's latest controversy, many in the GOP are wondering if it's too late to change the party's nominee. Because more than 34,000 Republican voters have already cast their ballots, the right has run out of time to dump Trump.
Many in the GOP are reeling from shock, revulsion and utter confusion about what to do next after a video surfaced Friday of Donald Trump talking about women in crude and aggressive sexual terms. New revelations emerged Saturday after CNN's Kfile reviewed hours of newly uncovered audio of demeaning conversations Trump held over a 17 year period with radio shock-jock Howard Stern.
On the eve of the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Republican candidate is yet again under fire, this time for lewd and vulgar comments he made toward women during a 2005 conversation. "I'm automatically attracted to beautiful women," Trump said in a 2005 videotape released Friday by The Washington Post.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ted Strickland assailed his Republican opponent, incumbent U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, today for not retracting his endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the wake of lewd comments by Mr. Trump caught on tape in 2005. "I would say that after seeing this video that Donald Trump is unfit to be the president of the United States of America and as a result of Rob Portman's continued support of him, Rob Portman is unfit to be a senator from the state of Ohio," Mr. Strickland said in an interview today with The Blade.
The Latest on the presidential campaign a day before the second presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump : A conservative Alabama congresswoman says she will not vote for Donald Trump for president and wants him to step down as GOP nominee. Republican Martha Roby says Trump's newly disclosed comments about women and how he treats them make him "unacceptable" for the office.
The Latest on the presidential campaign a day before the second presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump : Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges says there will be no punishment for state GOP officials who drop their support of Donald Trump over his crude comments about women. Asked whether the revelations were a fatal blow to Trump's electoral prospects, Borges said, "The debate tomorrow is now everything."
Senior Republicans have lined up to attack Donald Trump after a leaked videotape emerged in which the presidential candidate brags about groping women. In footage dating from 2005, Trump can be heard discussing his attempts to sleep with a married woman and says his celebrity status allows him to "do anything", including "grab" women "by the pussy".
It is time for Donald Trump to end his childish and vulgar campaign against women and resign his nomination while there is still time for the Republican National Committee to replace Trump at the top of a new ticket. There is still time for the RNC to save some down-ballot candidates and nominate Gov. Mike Pence, who can unite the party and defeat Hillary Clinton.
Immediately after a scandal-inducing video of Donald Trump and a Hollywood reporter hit the web Friday night, Illinois U.S. Senator Mark Kirk called on Trump to step down from his position as the Republican Party's presidential nominee. Kirk has consistently condemned the Trump candidacy and has threatened to write-in military officials from General David Petreaus to former Secretary of State Collin Powell rather than vote for Trump.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk were just some of the Republicans who called on Donald Trump to give up the nomination after viewing video footage showing the Republican nominee joking of his ability to sexually grope women without repercussion. But their statements were requests, not commandments.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump released a video statement saying comments from a 2005 video in which he bragged about groping women emerged "don't reflect" who he is. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview Saturday that he would not drop out of the race under any circumstances, following calls from several in his party to do so.
Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, joined growing list of those demanding Donald Trump end his presidential campaign, calling on running mate Mike Pence to ascend to the top of the ticket.
Since then, he's been a reliable backer of Republican presidential nominees, including both presidents Bush, Bob Dole and Mitt Romney. The software engineer from Matthews isn't a fan of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, but he insists she would make a more reasonable president, especially on foreign affairs, than Trump.
Key Republican donors have begun looking into whether it's possible to replace Donald Trump as the party's presidential nominee after his campaign was jarred Friday by a video showing him speaking about groping women and making other crude, sexually aggressive comments. Trump released a video statement early Saturday apologizing for the second time in 24 hours for the 2005 comments.
In a videotaped midnight apology, Donald Trump declared "I was wrong and I apologize" after being caught on tape making shockingly vulgar and sexually charged comments. Yet he also defiantly dismissed the revelations as "nothing more than a distraction" from a decade ago and signaled he would close his presidential campaign by arguing rival Hillary Clinton has committed greater sins against women.
Republicans swiftly condemned Donald Trump after the revelations of crude comments he made about women, captured in a 2005 tape and made public Friday. Here is some of the reaction: "No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner.