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From: zax10/8/2016 1:21:08 PM
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Lewd Donald Trump Tape Is a Breaking Point for Many in the G.O.P.
Pressure Mounts on Trump to Step Aside
By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS OCT. 8, 2016

nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump’s campaign was teetering on Saturday after the release of a video in which he speaks of women in vulgar sexual terms, with more Republican leaders calling for him to leave the ticket and demanding that the party shift focus to down-ballot races. Representative Charles Dent, Republican of Pennsylvania, said on Saturday that the party, which has been helping the Trump campaign financially and organizationally, should no longer “defend the indefensible.” He urged the party to abandon Mr. Trump if he refuses to withdraw and focus solely on electing the rest of the ticket.

“The priority for the Republican Party has to be protecting our congressional majorities,” he said.

There were no signs on Saturday morning that Mr. Trump might heed the mounting calls for him to stand down, nor did party leadership appear willing to abandon him. People close to the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee roundly denied that there was any effort afoot to ease him from the race.

On Saturday morning, Mr. Trump told The Wall Street Journal there was “zero chance I’ll quit” and that the “support I’m getting is unbelievable.”

The video released on Friday and recorded in 2005 showed a bus that had Mr. Trump aboard, and included an audio recording of him privately bantering with other men. Mr. Trump, then newly married to his third wife, Melania, crassly boasted about groping women’s genitalia, vulgarly commented on their bodies and generally described women as sex objects who could not resist his advances

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