After a week that included the release of an 11-year old video intended to cause Donald Trump to step down as a Presidential candidate, and ending with the second Presidential candidate debate, Trump goes into this week with his base more solidly behind him and Ms. Clinton exposed even more clearly as the hypocrite she is.
The video, coordinated by the Democrats and NBC to be released at a time they felt would be most harmful to the Trump campaign, would have absolutely derailed one of the Establishment Republicans’ carefully groomed candidates. They would do the typical Republican thing when the truth of something considered sexually scandalous is brought out in the open. They would do the “moral” thing and resign.
Donald Trump, however, had a better response. He said it was wrong, he’s sorry for saying it, and that’s not the person he was any more. Why did that work? Because he wasn’t posturing when he said it. He was showing, I believe, that he actually was examining his heart and realizing that if he was to become President there would have to be no talk like that - he was determining to separate himself from the playboy celebrity persona that he emulated in previous years.