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Why Republicans are withdrawing support for Donald Trump

 
Students pose with their sign outside the site of the second US Presidential debate, on October 8, 2016, at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. US Presidential Republican nominees Donald Trump and Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton will debate for the second time in St. Louis on October 9. / AFP PHOTO / PAUL J. RICHARDS
 

Why now? And why this?

For the legion of Republicans who abandoned Donald Trump on Saturday, recoiling in horror from comments their party’s White House nominee made about using his fame to prey on women, there is no escaping those questions.

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