Trump is choking like a dog and it’s his own fault

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Donald Trump and his apologists have spent the last two weeks seeking to tamp down public outrage around the release of his 2005 comments bragging about sexual assault. They assert that Bill and Hillary Clinton’s actions speak louder than Trump’s sexually explicit “locker room talk.”

Taking his argument at face value that actions are more important than words, it’s Trump’s lack of action that’s caused his campaign to go on life support. With only three weeks until Election Day, and difficult choices to be made about deploying severely limited resources, the most important person who hasn’t stepped up and done their part to fight for a Republican victory is Trump himself.

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