memeorandum: Why Republicans Are Probably Stuck With Donald Trump (Alan Rappeport/New York Times)

3:45 AM ET, October 9, 2016

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

WHIP LIST: Republicans breaking with Trump — GOP lawmakers and elected officials are abandoning presidential nominee Donald Trump — in droves just one month before Election Day after audio emerged of him making sexually obscene remarks about groping women.

Discussion: Indianapolis Star, Vox, USA Today, Politicus USA, RedState, Heat Street, Guardian, Raw Story, twitchy.com, Talking Points Memo, Patterico's Pontifications, NBC News, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, Presidential Gender Watch and Washington Post

Wall Street Journal:

GOP Scrambles to Salvage Election After Donald Trump's Latest Imbroglio — Republican candidates and party officials disavow presidential candidate, seek personal paths to political survival — A divided Republican Party descended into turmoil, as a startling chorus of GOP candidates …

Discussion: USA Today, The Week, Politicus USA, Heat Street and Business Insider

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:

With less than a month to go, a major party is walking away from its nominee — With less than a month to go before the election, a major political party is poised to walk away from its own presidential nominee — a situation with few precedents in American political history.

William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Dump Trump, Now More Than Ever

Discussion: National Review and Power Line

Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Why Republicans Are Probably Stuck With Donald Trump

Discussion: Politico and The Mahablog

New York Times:
Lewd Donald Trump Tape Is a Breaking Point for Many in the G.O.P.

Discussion: Crooked Timber, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Heat Street, Vox, Guardian, JustOneMinute, Mother Jones, Business Insider and No More Mister Nice Blog, more at Mediagazer »

Jordyn Phelps Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Trump Vows 'Zero Chance I'll Quit' in Wake of Fallout From His Vulgar Comments

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:

Donald Trump just retweeted Juanita Broaddrick calling Bill Clinton a rapist. All bets are now off. — In the wake of a newly released video showing Donald Trump talking in very lewd terms about women, he strongly suggested he would now take this opportunity to compare his own indiscretions to Bill Clinton's.

Discussion: Business Insider and FiveThirtyEight

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

“Shame On You!”: Trump Supporters Clash With Republican Leaders — ELKHORN, Wisconsin — In a jarring illustration of the chaos now engulfing the Republican Party, supporters of Donald Trump clashed bitterly with GOP leaders at a rally here Saturday — booing elected officials …

Discussion: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, EW.com, PredictWise, Washington Post and Business Insider

Donald Trump / Entertainment Tonight:

EXCLUSIVE: Nancy O'Dell Reacts to Donald Trump Recording — Entertainment Tonight host Nancy O'Dell has released the following statement in response to comments made by Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump that came to light Friday: — “Politics aside, I'm saddened that these comments still exist in our society at all.

Discussion: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Occupy Democrats, ABC News, Slate, Ad Age, The Daily Caller, New Urban Legends, Business Insider, Politico, Mashable, KING-TV, Talking Points Memo, Vox and Mother Jones

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

The Bottom Could Fall Out For Trump — Let's not naively insist on taking a wait-and-see approach regarding the events of the past 24 hours. The revelation of a tape from 2005 in which Donald Trump was caught making a number of lewd comments about women, and seemed to condone unwanted …

Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Unqualified Offerings

Louis Nelson / Politico: Trump puts Clinton on watch by retweeting Juanita Broaddrick

Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
BROADDRICK: Hillary's actions speak louder than Trump's words

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, Information Liberation, The Daily Caller, Infowars, ABC News, Guardian, CNBC and BizPac Review

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
POLITICO Breaking News: Pence reverses, no longer attending event with Paul Ryan

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Fox 59, WREG-TV, Washington Times, ABC News and Los Angeles Times

Robert Costa / Washington Post:

Amid growing calls to drop out, Trump vows to ‘never withdraw’ — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview Saturday that he would not drop out of the race under any circumstances, following calls from several in his party to do so. — “I'd never withdraw.

Discussion: ABC News, The Montgomery Advertiser, Business Insider, Guardian, KTLA, Politico, AOL, Politicus USA, NPR, Independent Journal Review, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Fox News Insider, ThinkProgress and Vox

Burgess Everett / Politico:
How McCain finally decided he couldn't stomach Trump anymore

Discussion: Occupy Democrats

John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Just Lost The Election

Discussion: Media Matters for America

Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Says Campaign Not in Crisis, and There Is 'Zero Chance I'll Quit'

Discussion: Politico, Mediaite, Al Jazeera English, Daily Kos, TheStreet.com, Business Insider, New York Magazine, AOL and The Week

Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
GOP consumed by crisis as more Republicans call on Trump to quit race

CNN:

Donald Trump to Howard Stern: It's okay to call my daughter a ‘piece of ass’ — Topics Trump discussed: Ivanka's physique, having sex with women on their menstrual cycles. and leaving women after they reach the age of 35. — (CNN)Warning: This story contains graphic language.

Discussion: Mediaite, ABC News, Raw Story, Washington Post, Jezebel, Mother Jones, Vox, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, NBC News, Outside the Beltway, Occupy Democrats, RedState, ThinkProgress, Politico and Gothamist

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

WIKILEAKS BOMBSHELL: Racist Hillary Trashes African Americans - Calls Them Losers — Julian Assange announced in August: The “Most Interesting and Serious” Wikileaks Info On Hillary Clinton Yet to Be Released. On Friday Wikileaks released clips of Clinton's paid speeches to Wall Street banks and other organizations.

Discussion: New Urban Legends, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, CANNONFIRE and The American Mirror

Associated Press:
Leaked Campaign Emails Show ‘Moderate’ Side of Clinton

Discussion: Politico and Washington Post

BBC:
Hillary Clinton's Wall St speeches published by Wikileaks

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Week, Washington Times, twitchy.com, MichelleMalkin.com, Politico and New York Times

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

RNC halts Victory project work for Trump — The Republican National Committee on Saturday appeared to at least temporarily halt the operations of some of the “Victory” program that is devoted to electing Donald Trump. — The move comes as the GOP nominee is under mounting pressure …

Discussion: Business Insider, The Daily Caller, NBC News, Mashable, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Mediaite, BuzzFeed and Instapundit

Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
RNC lawyers look at options for replacing Trump

Discussion: Hot Air, The Daily Caller, RedState and Joe.My.God.

Washington Post:

Inside Trump Tower: The defiant and insulated Republican nominee — ST. LOUIS — He beamed in just after midnight Saturday like a captive in his own gilded cage. A man who demands the best of everything was speaking to America from a dimly lit, home-built studio against a fake backdrop …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Politico

Annie Karni / Politico:

Clinton team girds for all-out assault — The bombshell Donald Trump video that surfaced Friday has so dramatically altered expectations for Sunday's town hall debate that one Democrat close to Bill and Hillary Clinton had a new view of what may unfold in St. Louis: “Expect Armageddon.”

Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:

“The Apprentice” Under Pressure To Release Unaired Trump Footage — Your move, Mark Burnett. — Pressure is building on The Apprentice producers to release unaired raw footage of the show after Friday's release of a 2005 hot mic video of Donald Trump apparently bragging about sexually assaulting women …

Discussion: Independent Journal Review, Vox and Media Matters for America

Desert Sun:

Two slain police officers identified in Palm Springs shooting — (Oct. 8, 2016) Gabby Ferriera/The Desert Sun — Two police officers were killed and one was wounded in a shooting in Palm Springs on Saturday, plunging the community into mourning as police searched for the suspect.

Discussion: New York Daily News, Guardian, New York Times and Mediaite

Los Angeles Times:
3 police officers shot in Palm Springs; manhunt underway, one officer in critical condition

Discussion: KTLA, twitchy.com and WREG-TV

Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:

Kellyanne Conway's Political Machinations — Can the first woman to run a Republican Presidential campaign reform Donald Trump? — In late September, when Donald Trump spoke in Chester Township, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, he wasn't the only star at the event.

Discussion: Mediaite

Reuters:

Evangelical leaders stick with Trump, focus on defeating Clinton — Leaders of religious conservative groups largely stood behind Donald Trump on Saturday, the day after vulgar sexual comments he made about women surfaced online, but some expressed concern that the U.S. Republican presidential …