The debate came as a growing number of Republican officials called on Trump to step down as their party’s nominee following Friday’s release of the video showing Trump boasting of sexual assault. Fifteen Republican senators, including former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, are now openly opposing Trump’s candidacy. The highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress condemned Trump’s comments. Congressmember Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state said, “It is never appropriate to condone unwanted sexual advances or violence against women. Mr. Trump must realize that it has no place in public or private conversations.” Donald Trump has rejected calls to step down. In the wake of the tape’s release, there’s a renewed focus on other reports of Trump’s mistreatment of women. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a piece Friday titled “Donald Trump, Groper in Chief.” It details the claims of Jill Harth, a Florida business associate of Trump who sued him for sexual harassment after he groped her at a business dinner and later attempted to sexually assault her in the empty bedroom of his daughter Ivanka. Harth described the incident to The Guardian.

Jill Harth: “He pulled me aside in the children’s room and made another sexually aggressive advance on me, where he tried to make his move. He pushed me up against the wall and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again. And I had to physically say, 'What are you doing? Stop it.' It was a shocking thing to have him do this, because he knew I was with George, he knew that they were in the next room. And how could he be doing this when I’m there for business?”