Can the GOP Really Bump Trump from The Ticket?

The Takeaway | Oct 10, 2016

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With less than a month until Election Day, scores of GOP leaders have withdrawn support from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in response to a recently surfaced video in which the candidate vulgarly describes his aggressive sexual advances on women.

Though Trump chalked it up to "locker room talk," many within his own party are calling for his resignation from the campaign. But Trump isn't backing down.

Caitlin Huey-Burns, national political reporter with RealClearPolitics, discusses the plausibility of removing Trump from the ticket, and how this political fallout might affect down-ballot GOP candidates.

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