{UAH} US election media review - Is Donald Trump's campaign over?

October 8, 2016
Among all the media fallout over the revelation of Donald Trump's obscene comments about women in a 2005 videotape, two things stand out.

Did he really apologise? And has his campaign terminally imploded?

There have been many turning points in many campaigns in the long history of American politics, and for many US commentators, Donald Trump may have finally dropped off the edge of the cliff.

Glenn Thrush and Katie Glueck, writing for Politico, said it was "fitting that the election of Hillary Clinton as the first female president might have been sealed by Donald Trump's treatment of women as subordinate, interchangeable, pliable playthings.

"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."

'It's over'

Avik Roy in Forbes, cites a number of the faux pas that have dogged Mr Trump over the past few weeks.

He says: "None of this was enough to prevent nearly all leading GOP [Republican] lawmakers from endorsing Trump as their nominee. But the latest tape just might. Why?

"Because few Republican lawmakers have Muslim relatives. Few Republican lawmakers are of Mexican heritage. Few Republican lawmakers have faced discrimination based on the colour of their skin. But all of them have white female relatives. And therefore, when Trump talks about grabbing white women by the genitals, they can directly relate."

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