Trump a compulsively public politician who has mouthed some of the most hilarious (intentionally or otherwise), offensive, fact-allergic and misogynistic statements by anyone competing in the public arena might be ultimately undone by a private admission about a woman he wanted to have sex with.
Story Continued Below There has never been a major party nominee like Trump, and there has never been anything like the release of Trump speaking about women in the most vulgar and demeaning terms in a 2005 hot mic recording -- including the nauseating admissions that he made an apparently unwanted pass on a married woman and that he liked to grope the women he courted whether they liked it or not.
Americans don’t trust politicians (it’s one of the biggest reasons for Trump’s improbable rise), but they trust their eyes and ears. And the recording of Trump talking with radio and TV host Billy Bush makes a starker case that he’s unsuited to occupy the nation’s highest office rendering Mitt Romney’s infamous leaked “47 percent” tape seem like a high-minded Great Courses lecture.
Sunday’s U.S. presidential debate in about 24 hours likely would determine whether Donald Trump remains competitive in this contest. After losing the first debate to Hillary Clinton, the heat clearly is on the GOP candidate to bring his A game to the second debate or risk losing more grounds in the polls. The pressure is even more on Trump, considering that no presidential candidate in recent memory has lost back-to-back presidential debates and gone on to win the American presidential election. Trump needs a superb performance at the debate to stop the momentum of his Democratic Party rival, which has seen Hillary regaining a lot of lost territories in the last 10 days.