Momentum now with Hillary Clinton after Donald Trump's stumble

By The Canberra Times
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:38pm, first published October 10 2016 - 5:50pm

Donald Trump's unconvincing performance in the second presidential debate – following the debacle of his 2005 video comments aired the day before – has probably extinguished whatever hopes he may have had of succeeding Barack Obama in the White House in 2017. It was not the novelty of the 2005 remarks which shocked Americans – for the list of Mr Trump's sexist and demeaning utterances is long and extensive – but the crudity. True to form, Mr Trump tried to slough off the remarks as nothing more than "locker room talk", and then sought to draw attention to Bill Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct by appearing alongside several of the former president's accusers present in the debate audience.

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