A vulnerable GOP senator called on Donald Trump to drop out of the presidential race in the wake of an audio tape showing Trump making sexually explicit comments about women.
“@realDonaldTrump should drop out. @GOP should engage rules for emergency replacement,” Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wrote on Twitter Friday.
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman likewise called for Trump to exit the race, leaving his running mate Mike Pence to lead the ticket.
Audio surfaced Friday of Trump in 2005 making vulgar remarks about women and saying that his celebrity allows him to “do anything” with women, including “grab them by the p—y.”
The comments received swift backlash from Republicans, with Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus saying that “No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever.”