Do you think this will actually change anything?

[retrowire]

I honestly didn't think it could get worse.

But it did.

Holy shit.

But do YOU actually think it will change anything?

How much faith do you have in the American people to turn their backs on this?

[gopiscrap]

1. Yes I think this wil peel a few evangelical

and woman voters from him. It definitely won't garner any additional votes for him and he's already behind....

[oberliner]

51. Top Evangelicals Stand By Trump

“I’ve listened to the tape, my view is that people of faith are voting on issues like who will protect unborn life, defend religious freedom, create jobs, and oppose the Iran nuclear deal,” Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and a member of Trump’s religious advisory board, said in a statement. “I think a 10-year-old tape of a private conversation with a TV talk show host ranks pretty low on their hierarchy of concerns.”

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, another Trump supporter, told BuzzFeed he isn’t concerned with sharing “values” with the GOP nominee.

“My personal support for Donald Trump has never been based upon shared values, it is based upon shared concerns about issues such as: justices on the Supreme Court that ignore the constitution, America’s continued vulnerability to Islamic terrorists and the systematic attack on religious liberty that we’ve seen in the last 7 1/2 years,” he said in an email.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/evangelicals-trump_us_57f83051e4b068ecb5de95fb?section=

[gopiscrap]

54. the top ones will stand by him

but will the rank and file?

[oberliner]

56. The Hillary-hate is very strong with that crowd

It's hard to imagine them moving over to her.

[forgotmylogin]

55. Ralph Reed and Tony Perkins support unsolicited genital groping.

[onecaliberal]

2. I thought we had seen beyond the pale, but this is wow

[tblue37]

41. It is not a surprise at all--it is who we knew him to be. The only surprise is that we have

actual recorded evidence, not that it happened.

[Lucinda]

3. Yep. A bit. His awful core wont care, but the fundies will have a hard time ignoring this...

and the media will dig for more.

[tblue37]

42. ANd as with Cosby, more will come forward now, because they will have a

chance of being believed, and because he won't be able to hurt them now.

[MyNameIsKhan]

4. Yup voter depression and Evangilicals not voting

[geek tragedy]

5. it will prevent things from changing in his favor.

He's locked in at 42%. That's his ceiling.

His floor? We'll see how many people show up for him.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. His ceiling now 40%

And that is generous.

[MANative]

6. If my Facebook feed is any indication, yes.

Blowing up tonight with this. Everyone (females especially) from my 85-year old aunt to my 23-year-old niece is FURIOUS, and some who had either remained circumspect about their choice or kept quiet about politics in general, are speaking out angrily and committing to ensuring that Trump is trounced by Hillary.

[tblue37]

45. This is the woman he was talking about--Nancy O'Dell--who had been married for just a few months

http://media.celebrity-pictures.ca/Celebrities/Nancy-O'Dell/Nancy-O'Dell-1075897.jpg when he made the moves on her.

[emulatorloo]

8. He needs married suburban women to vote for him

How do they and their husbands respond to his moving in on a married woman to "fuck" her.

I don't know for sure, but I when put myself in their shoes it makes me not to want to vote for me.

[ffr]

9. Absolutely. Trump has a full-on damage control problem. His ship is listing.

Sure to sink the GOP hopes coming up, without a doubt!

[Doreen]

10. No

I hate saying it but to many of the fundamentalists do not believe in respect for women and the women who vote for him have long been beaten down into believing the mans word is the only word and all that counts is that they vote like their man tells them to. There are other things that will be changing peoples minds from Trump but women's rights are not one of them.

[yardwork]

20. I agree that the fundamentalists won't care, but a lot of Republicans will.

I guarantee this is not going over well on small town Main Street. Not at all.

[Doreen]

21. I will believe

when I hear about a Trump voter who actually has the brains to change their vote away from Trump.

[regnaD kciN]

53. Doesn't matter…

He's already behind, and there's no way he's going to pick up votes after this.

[spooky3]

29. Agree. And DT's said MANY vile things yet

Millions of deplorables see nothing wrong with them, and support him. I can't see that this incident will change the mind of a single one of them.

[uponit7771]

32. +1

[femmedem]

11. Yes, because this is going to be the tip of the iceberg.

I expect reporters will revisit Jill Harth's account of being groped, and Temple Taggart--1997's Miss Utah--account of being kissed on the lips without her consent. Who knows how many more?

It's going to be in the news cycle for days.

[Pathwalker]

15. According to Mark Halperin there are FOUR more tapes that will

be released once a week for the next four weeks. IF you can believe him, plus a few more reporters who've said there are more coming. This isn't over, by a long shot.

[retrowire]

19. ewww we gotta learn about more??

Can't this be enough?

Leave it to Trump to bring smutty bullshit into politics. God damnit.

He's actually turned it all into a reality TV show.

[The Genealogist]

34. Good!

No doubt it is painful for the women this man has mistreated to have to rehash these awful events, but this kind of monstrous behavior in someone who is vying to be president needs the sun to shine on it.

[tblue37]

46. NY Times article about Trumps crude advances toward women:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html?_r=0

Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private
Interviews reveal unwelcome advances, a shrewd reliance on ambition, and unsettling workplace conduct over decades.

[tinrobot]

12. Hillary was already set to win, so it doesn't change that...

The only thing that changes is how big of a margin he's going to give her.

[napi21]

13. YES, I think this is the death nail in the Con's casket. I also believe it will affect

votes for Pubs running for reelection and supporting the Con.

I want to see what Ryan does about the appearance he's supposed to do with the Con tomorrow. BAD TIMING!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. Yes, it will!

He will lose independent voters and a few conservatives as well.

His hard core base will support him no matter what, but they aren't enough to stop a landslide!

[retrowire]

17. Landslide.

I got a feeling you're damn right.

[BigDemVoter]

16. Yes, I most certainly do.

It will alienate quite a few women who for whatever the FUCK, cannot make up their minds for whom they want to vote. This will certainly push some "soft" Trump supporters away, and he cannot afford to lose ANY. Once FL goes BLUE, Trump is screwed.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. Yes I DO. More women will vote than ever. Many R men will have too much work

to do, or "forget" to get themselves to the polls.

[taught_me_patience]

22. It greatly diminishes his chance of a comeback

His pool of voters will be smaller after this. His supporters might start to get demoralized.

[radius777]

23. It won't shake his core base, but

it will cut off his ability to grow his support, and may even suppress turnout amongst the nevertrumpers (who may've turned out at the last second to vote against hillary) and social conservatives.

This is likely the beginning of an avalanche about to rain down on Trump.

We haven't even gotten into the Trump Model Agency sweatshop/visa fraud thing, which I think is even worse than this, because it cuts down his populist/tough on immigration image.

[MoonRiver]

24. Women who might not have been highly motivated to get out and vote for Hillary, will now. eom

[Cosmocat]

25. The "true Christians" won't give a shit

the 40% or so so republican base won't budge, but it probably will nudge a bit of the "undecideds" who probably were never going to vote for him, but have a hard time getting Hillary, to Hillary.

[spooky3]

35. But how could those undecideds see these comments

As out of synch with the many other things he's said and done?

[Cosmocat]

37. lol

yeah, I know ... But it is getting close and if they are more repulsed by him than Hill, which you have to believe most of the hold outs are, maybe it nudges them where they need to go ... Maybe.

[4139]

26. Why the Friday-Night news dump? That is where you dump stuff you don't want covered

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

27. Yes...GOP politicians are coming out strong against what he said

One GOP woman even referred to it as violence against women.

[blm]

28. It WILL affect at least 1-2% of holierthanthous who thrive on feigning being aghast

and that is plenty enough for some of us in NC and other swing states.

[Doodley]

30. Yes, Trump is going to get a good kicking, in the election, personally and financially.

[The_Casual_Observer]

31. Yes he goes into the debate carrying this new load.

It's got to rattle him

[Setsuna1972]

33. A nuclear bomb just went off inside of the Trump universe

And this was a direct hit ! He's done. There's no way out of this mess .

[Dawson Leery]

36. HRC is 45! Trump is sunk.

The only question is the margin of victory for HRC and Democrats down ballot, including the house.

[First Speaker]

38. I think so, a little...there *are* decent Republicans out there...

...I know some. They still support Trump, but know as well as anyone what his defects are. This is exactly the sort of thing that will disgust them. They probably won't vote for Hillary, but they might just sit the Presidential race out...

[rufus dog]

39. This is just the beginning of the October Slam

Intended to embarrass republican voters and create a wedge between Trump deplorables and the other republicans. Down ticket candidates will have to try to keep both sides happy, which is an impossible task.

So let's say Trump quits, you think camp Clinton won't have the Kaine/Pence debate clips ready with Pence refusing to condemn Trump? They are being put into a lose/lose situation.

[pansypoo53219]

40. a LOT of uneveolved men think we are just pussies, so they will ADORE THIS.

[TeamPooka]

43. It's baking the cake faster.

[Kingofalldems]

44. Many potential Trump voters will sit this one out.

We can now take the Senate, maybe.

[musicblind]

47. I thought it would, but after a visit to twitter...

... most of these deplorable people supporting Trump are just doubling down on being deplorable.

I truly believe these people are horrible human beings and want a horrible human being for president. So no, I don't think this will change much.

[retrowire]

48. i feel like we could use this data

To literally measure how many people in America have no decency.

[femmedem]

49. Yes. The fact that a wealthy, predatory boor exists doesn't sur me.

But the number of Americans who cheer him on has startled and frightened me. I wish I knew if it was our media, our income inequality, our racist and predatory national history that made this possible...and is this new, or has our national character always been this appalling?

[JTFrog]

50. Yes. nt

[stopbush]

52. He was already losing by a significant margin.

This just makes it worse.

[nadine_mn]

57. Nope - nothing will change

Trump has a hard core group of supporters that have repeatedly shown that they will dig in their heels and support him no matter what.

There is no political leverage to gain for the politicians who have supported or endorsed Trump to dump him now. Voters with integrity will see dumping Trump now as too little too late or as cowardly turning their backs on their nominee.

Any one in the GOP who acts "surprised" by these statements will come across as disingenuous, naive or stupid.