Trump Says He Won’t Quit as Republican Officials Abandon Him
- Presidential nominee defiant after crude video resurfaces
- Calls grow from elected Republicans for him to step aside
Donald Trump Vows to ‘100 Percent’ Stay in the Race
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday defied party members’ calls for him to quit the presidential race over a 2005 video that surfaced of him talking crudely about women, as open rancor about the GOP’s White House choice thrust the party into its biggest crisis in decades.
“100 percent,” said Trump, 70, about staying in the race during a brief appearance outside his namesake tower in Manhattan to greet supporters after one Republican lawmaker after another abandoned him in an extraordinary political reckoning just one month before Election Day.