WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, under fire for vulgar comments caught on tape in 2005 and published on Friday, said that running mate Mike Pence would represent him at a Wisconsin campaign event on Saturday.
Trump said in a statement that he would stay in New York “in debate prep” with Republican National Campaign chairman Reince Priebus, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Senator Jeff Sessions before flying to St. Louis on Sunday for the second presidential debate.
Donald Trump issued an apology on Friday after the release of a video in which the Republican presidential candidate was recorded on an open microphone in 2005 talking in vulgar terms about trying to have sex with women.
He was originally supposed to campaign with GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan at a Wisconsin festival Saturday. After hearing the tape Ryan said he was sickened and that Trump would not be coming.
(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Sandra Maler, Eric Walsh)
