gone. reporter: voter anger at weiner keeps rising. you re putting on a show. so? reporter: if anything, you would have expected that spitzer would have had much more of an uphill battle in this race given his behavior was clearly illegal. weiner s may have been unethical but it wasn t necessarily illegal as far as we know. yet the opposite has transpired in that weiner has found it very difficult in the aftermath of a second scandal to recover from it. reporter: hard to believe that weiner was once at the top of the pack. now polls show him near the bottom with the city s public advocate bill de blass jo in the lead. if he fails to get 40% of the vote, he faces a runoff. spitzer, if he wins or loses, his neck-to-neck race, all agree he has made a political comeback. diane nyad is going online
python bit. i don t know. would anything stop me? is a rock going to fall on my head? no, i m going to win this election. best case, he was trying to be funny, but there s been not too much funny in the way of his candidacy so far. earlier this week, weiner got it into with an opponent who s reportedly called him a sel self-pleasuring freak. among the sniping if i can just finish my answer, that would be great. reporter: the mocking and carlos danger sexting, voters may be wondering, when will it end? voters are willing to give him a second chance. they re not willing to give him a third, fourth, or fifth chance. in the latest poll, weiner keeps sliding. in fourth place and down to 10% of the vote. his intent to dig out may only be really digging himself deeper. reporter: weiner s still forecasting a win and inexplicably, the weather in gland. it s going to be raining, cloudy, and grey, so do what you
weiner s [ bleep ] getting smaller. hard ball. very gritty movie. you want to take a nice hot [ bleep ] after watching parts of this. with weiner you look at it and say what is this guy doing other than [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] i was never against [ bleep ] i was just against doing the [ bleep ] without offsetting it with [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. you agree to what you can along the way. by that [ bleep ]. we may be in business. i m sure we both can [ bleep ]. who needs a seven second delay, you know? who needs it? you. me? that s right. where s my theme song. politics can get nasty in washington, but it s a whole different animal in taiwan. that s where a voluntary debate turned into an all out brawl over a vote to construct a power plant. punches were thrown, water was
rack racketeering trial in boston. prosecutors were outraged after the defense released personal photos in an attempt to show bulger in a good light. in one picture, bulger is seen with a priest defrocked for abuse young boys. try as he might to focus on issues, new york mayoral candidate anthony weiner having a tough time talking about anything other than his scandal. yesterday, weiner said he can t guarantee more women won t come out with private information. last night, he backed away from a press secretary who unleashed a rant against a former intern earlier this week. i didn t approve it. she apologized. end of the conversation. all right. weiner s press secretary rant aimed at an intern who wrote a tell-all article in a tabloid. a california boy is in critical condition after a freak accident at his home near los angeles. the 8-year-old almost drowned in his family s washing machine. sucked in while putting clothes in the top loading machine. his father found him face dow
expletive. terrible at her job and much worse apologizing on twitter, not my best day yesterday, should have known better, been better, gotta pay up. weiner s wife, huma, top aide to hillary clinton, is reportedly taking time off from that job, but has not reemerged on the campaign trail. the man who ran bill clinton s presidential campaign became their closest ally to publicly urge weiner to quit. if you follow him, would i get out, yes. if i was working on his campaign would i say i can t take this anymore and resign, yes. reporter: but james carville tells abc news hillary clinton feels more personal pain than political damage. i know she doesn t feel very good for her friend. reporter: the clintons themselves sources say preferring surrogates to deliver the political hammer. jim avila, abc news, washington. president obama and the first lady are giving their daughters a reality check in an online interview for kindle