this was not something that was going to go away. also that statement was so short, the idea that he apologizes if he offend you. now a lot of republican women have recoiled from that idea. it s not an apology. i think the trump campaign realize that in four weeks outside of the election that he was going to have to do something much more forceful. thank you very ch for joining us tomorrow. i really appreciate it. thank you. we re joint joined by presidential campaign veterans. your worst program were poll numbers for rand paul in your case, mcnally in 24 case. we sit around and talk about how should they handle this or that. in the trump campaign don t we have to face the reality that we re talking about a set of
people that there are so many other fundamental problems with the campaign now that you re going to see a little bit of bla glastnost that even if he survived this, there are others problems, the deterioration of polling that we ve seen over the last nine days, that again, would make the challenge of coming back from this even with the performance of a lifetime in a midnight video a bridge too far for some. again, don t want to overstate it. the people around trump is saying this is all silly. this is an overreaction and that trump is going to be there sunday night and fight his way back. but i ll say again, very high levels of the party, that s cancer that this simply not just not just the last straw but a bridge too far regarding the statements that he was
else is out there. this sounds like a typical trump conversationnd if there is, there will be more tapes, outtakes in television shows, there will be other things. it s almost to the point trump has to understand, at least my opinion is, somebody ought to tell him this that the odds of winning the presidency now you ve gone from being behind to almost nil. it s time to look in the mirror and decide whether the best thing is to stp aside and not hand hillary clinton the white house. he is in an existential crisis for this campaign tonight. in a normal war room, how much more of this is out there? obviously donald trump does not know. it is entirely likely that donald trump had absolutely no memory of that conversation on that bus that was recorded on video. and access hollywood has said
it s so incredibly difficult to get donald trump off the ballot at this stage of the game. we re going to go to there s a we re bog to a higher legal authority on this right now. we have mr. ben ginsburg. mr. ben ginsburg is joining us by phone. he has provided legal counsel to the romney, bush presidential campaigns. he knows this stuff. ben, race car we tonight if donald trump decides he cannot cannot to campaign for the presidency? well, under the rules of the republican party, lawrence, they the republican national committee can reconvene and vote for a new nominee. now, that s the rules. the practical problem is the ballots are printed in most of the states and early voting has started in any number of states. so the practical itseities of t are really, really steep and of
and robert, there s this is a campaign that doesn t really have any experience obviously in trying to do what they are reportedly doing tonight, and that is to get donald trump to apologize in a clear and genuine way. before you even get to convincing, robert, i mean just i ve been using the conventional language of apology that is absolute, not kj. that is the kind of apology that mitch mcconnell was demanding of trurch, apparently still demanding of donald trump. seems mitch mcconnell made his endorsement conditional on gettings that kind of apology. that s exactly right. there s going to be more of these kinds of demands. your point is crucial. the people around trump tonight