Republican VP candidate announces Monday visit to Charlotte and flood-damaged Fayetteville

Fleeing a disastrous weekend of raunchy rhetoric about women from his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will arrive in North Carolina Monday as tar heels cope with still-rising flood waters and wind damage from Hurricane Matthew. According to schedules sent to supporters and news organizations Saturday night, Pence will visit Charlotte in the early afternoon and then move onto K3 Enterprises, Inc. on Cumberland St. in Fayetteville that evening.

Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis withdraws support for Trump

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis is joining the ranks of Republican officials who have withdrawn their support for Donald Trump after the release of a recording in which Trump makes vulgar comments about women. The Herald and Review reported Saturday that Davis has asked to be removed from the Trump's agriculture advisory committee.

Lewd language on Trump tape creates a challenge for parents

The 6-year-old girl turned to her mother and asked, "What does it mean to grab somebody by the p---y?" Then she saw the television screen. "You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them," Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, was saying in a 2005 recording.

Klarides

Connecticut's top Republican female office holder says she's re-evaluating her support of Donald Trump after hearing Trump's lewd banter about a television host in a bombshell video that has many in the GOP ducking for cover. House Minority Leader Themis Klarides , R-Derby, told Hearst Connecticut Media Saturday that she was repulsed by Trump's crude remarks about entertainment newscaster Nancy O'Dell in 2005.

With campaign in crisis, Melania Trump asks country to forgive her husband

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump introduces his wife Melania on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Melania Trump came to her husband's defense Saturday, saying the vulgar comments the Republican nominee made in an uncovered video do "not represent the man that I know."

The Latest: Ryan greeted with some boos from Trump backers

The Latest on the presidential campaign a day before the second presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump : House Speaker Paul Ryan is greeted with a mixture of boos and cheers at a Republican rally in his Wisconsin congressional district. Ryan began his comments Saturday by saying "there is a bit of an elephant in the room," referring to the profane comments made by GOP nominee Donald Trump that came to light Friday.

Trump vows to press on as GOP calls grow for him to quit

A defiant Donald Trump insisted Saturday he would "never" abandon his White House bid, rejecting a growing backlash from Republican leaders across the nation who disavowed the GOP's presidential nominee after he was caught on tape bragging about predatory advances on women. Trump's own running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, declared he could neither condone nor defend Trump's remarks, which sparked widespread panic inside Trump Tower and throughout the Republican Party with early voting already underway exactly one month before Election Day.

Mike Pence must dump sexist Trump, anti-Donald group says

If Mike Pence is truly offended by Donald Trump's past comments about women that surfaced Friday, he should withdraw as his vice presidential candidate, an anti-Trump group said Saturday. Pence, the Republican Indiana governor, said in a statement Saturday that as a husband and father he was offended by Trump's comments in the 11-year-old video that surfaced Friday, but wanted to give his running mate a chance "to show what is in his heart" during Sunday's presidential debate.

Is it too late to dump Trump? Pressure mounts for the Republicans…

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.

Trump throws GOP into chaos

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.

Iowa political leaders react to Donald Trump’s lewd remarks

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.

The Latest: GOP Rep. Roby calls on Trump to quit as nominee

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: Oh Gop chief says debate “is now everything”

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."

Rhoads: Mike Pence for President

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.

How Republicans Could Replace Donald Trump If He Steps Down

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.