Trump Campaign Reels as Some Donors Explore Replacing Him

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.

Trump issues defiant apology for lewd remarks – then goes on the attack

Donald Trump issued a defiant apology Saturday morning for lewd and sexually aggressive remarks he made a decade ago - and then made it clear he is girding himself for a nasty political battle. The GOP presidential nominee posted a 90-second video just after midnight on social media, telling voters that he is not a "perfect person" and that the words captured by a hot mic in 2005 "don't reflect who I am."

This is what would happen if Donald Trump quit the…

After a 2005 video of Donald Trump making salacious comments about women surfaced on Friday, some prominent Republicans are calling on their nominee to drop out of the race. In August, the right-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board published a scathing op-ed calling on Trump to mature his campaign style or hand the nomination to his running mate, Mike Pence.

The Latest: Utah’s Lee calls on Trump to quit after apology

Utah Sen. Mike Lee is the latest Republican member of Congress to call on Donald Trump to drop out of the race for president. Lee is responding to Trump's apology for making crude comments about women and his defiant aassertion that those remarks from 2005 are a "distraction from the important issues we're facing today."

Pence: Trump is “still standing stronger than ever”

Mike Pence ignored questions from reporters Friday evening about leaked video in which Donald Trump is heard making very sexually explicit comments about women. "Governor, how can you ignore this question?" asked ABC producer Ines De La Cuetara -- as Pence ignored her question and multiple questions in the same vein from other reporters.

Local unions criticize Pence on auto bailout

Members of the local Democratic and labor communities blasted Indiana governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence for his opposition to the auto industry rescue hours before his Rossford visit on Friday, calling him a threat to the working class. At the United Association Local 50 hall in Northwood, Wood County Democratic Party Chairman Mike Zickar said residents have a history of listening to politicians from all parties, but that Gov. Pence's record speaks for itself, particularly his vote against the 2008 auto bailout.

V.P. pick Pence touts Trump for defense in Rossford speech

SLUG: CTY PENCE08 10/7/2016 The Blade/ Amy E. Voigt Rossford, OH CAPTION: The bus for Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence arrives in to Rossford on October 7, 2016. About 500 people saw Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence at the Rossford Community Recreation Center.

Trump campaign battered by cascade of missteps, new lewd comments

In this Oct. 6, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall in Sandown, N.H. Trump made a series of lewd and sexually charged comments about women as he waited to make a cameo appearance on a soap opera in 2005. The Republican presidential nominee issued a rare apology Friday, "if anyone was offended."

The Latest: Trump shakes up advertising plans

Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, speaks during a Nevada Democratic Party rally at the Carpenters International Training Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. FILE - In this July 6, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets striking workers outside the Trump Taj Mahal Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. On Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, the last vestige of Donald Trump will vanish from Atlantic City when the Trump Taj Mahal casino shuts down.

Matthew hammers Florida, begins dayslong beating of coast

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decades-long civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people in the South American country. Hurricane Matthew's howling wind and driving rain pummeled Florida early Friday, starting what's expected to be a ruinous, dayslong battering of the Southeast coast.

Progressives Unite in Opposition to Donald Trump

The Pulse nightclub, still painted in funereal black, is surrounded by a fence covered with colorful murals commemorating the victims of the June assault, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. On the murals, people have written messages of love, of hope and most commonly, of unity.

Illustration on Donald Trump’s accumulating negatives by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency

The 2016 presidential campaign will go down in U.S. history as a nasty, below-the-belt, political brawl, filled with ugly, juvenile, mean-spirited behavior that has embarrassed our country before the world. Take the first campaign debate where the Republican front-runner suggested that one of the anchors, who asked why he insulted women he didn't like - calling them "fat pigs," "dogs," and "slobs" - was on her menstrual cycle.

Taking softer tone, Pence says Clinton is admirable

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Thursday offered rare praise for Hillary Clinton, saying both the Democratic presidential nominee and Donald Trump have "many admirable qualities" for young people to look up to. The modest compliment came as Pence fielded a question that tripped up another Republican earlier in the week: Is Donald Trump a role model for children? "I frankly think both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have many admirable qualities that young people can look up to," Pence said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show.

As president, Trump would have huge trade powers

As president, Trump would have huge trade powers Congress has ceded much power to the White House on trade policy. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2dNMPxq NEW YORK - Donald Trump promises to do a lot of things if he is elected president, but there is something different about his pledges to change trade deals.

Pence pardon

For nearly 20 years, Keith Cooper has been a felon - a label wrongfully placed on him by the criminal justice system. And for the past three years, Cooper had hoped and waited for Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to use his executive power and issue a gubernatorial pardon, permanently removing that label and the stigma that goes along with being a felon.

Vice presidential debate seen by 37 million viewers

More than half of the 84 million viewers who flocked last week to the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton found something else to do when their respective running mates faced off Tuesday night. A total of 37 million viewers watched GOP vice presidential hopeful Mike Pence debate Democratic rival Tim Kaine on nine networks measured by the Nielsen company.