Politics & Government
Trump to Campaign in Portsmouth Saturday
The Republican presidential nominee has scheduled a rally at the Toyota of Portsmouth dealership on Oct. 15.

PORTSMOUTH, NH — Anyone who thought that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was going to give up his run for the White House any time soon, due to the onslaught media coverage after a video surfaced from 11 years ago featuring lewd comments during an off-air interview, they thought wrong. For the third time in two weeks, the candidate will return to New Hampshire to campaign at the Toyota of Portsmouth dealership at noon on Saturday, Oct. 15, on Greenleaf Avenue, according to the campaign.
The dealership is the same location that Scott Brown earlier this year hosted Trump as part of his pre-first-in-the-nation primary “No BS Backyard BBQ” event, with the former Senator ultimately endorsing the real estate mogul. After the Portsmouth event Saturday, the candidate heads to Bangor, ME, for a stop at 3 p.m. Trump also has a post-Sunday debate stops booked for Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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The New Hampshire event will be the sixth time in two and half months that Trump has come to New Hampshire to campaign and will be the first time back in the state after the second debate – a town hall-style format event – between Trump and Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, which is scheduled for 9 p.m. tonight.
It is also his first foray into the state after the release of “Access Hollywood” footage from 2005 of the billionaire businessman bragging that women were willing to do anything sexual with him because he was a television star, and that he could “grab” their private parts if he wanted to, which set off a national firestorm. Both "Never Trumpers" and establishment Republicans have called on the nominee to step aside and allow his running mate, Gov. Mike Pence, R-IN, to run in his place. U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, who is in a tight re-election campaign this year, has stated that she will write-in Pence instead of vote for Trump.
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The GOP nominee issued two apologies on Friday, including a 90-second video that has been viewed more than 19.4 million times on Facebook, and vowed to fight on. He told the Wall Street Journal on Saturday that there was “zero chance” that he will quit the race.
While some Republicans were withdrawing their support, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll released this morning, only 12 percent of Republicans agree he should quit. Respondents not only want Trump to remain in the race, but 74 percent said they want the Republican Party to continue to give the nominee institutional support.
Trump also vowed to raise the claims of the numerous sexual assault and harassment allegations against former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s alleged activity enabling and even threatening victims against her during the final 30 days of the 2016 presidential race.
Juanita Broaddrick – a woman who alleged that she was raped by Bill Clinton when he was the Attorney General of Arkansas and running for governor in 1978 and also claims to have been threatened by Hillary Clinton – was featured in lengthy interview and story about her allegations this morning on Brietbart.com. In the video, Kathleen Willey, a former White House volunteer aide who was reportedly sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton in November 1993, is seen consoling Broaddrick while she cries, reliving the details of the alleged brutal attack.
Both Broaddrick and Willey, as well as a number of other women, were witnesses against Bill Clinton during the Paula Jones sexual harassment case – which led to his impeachment for perjury, after he lied under oath about having sexual relations with intern Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office of the White House. Bill Clinton later settled the harassment case with Jones for $850,000.
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