Laura Coates: If the Blanket Assertion Is that No Party Should Stand by Candidates with Sexual Assault Allegations, Trump Should’ve Been out of the Race

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COATES: "So, to be clear, if there is a credible allegation of either womanizing, domestic violence or sexual assault, no one in a party should ever stand by the candidate. Because if that — if that is your statement, and I‘d love to hear from you on this, if that is your blanket assertion, I gotta tell you, Herschel Walker should have been out, Donald Trump should have been out of the race. You‘ve got Roy Moore shouldn‘t have been running. I could go on and on, on candidates. And I know that‘s not the the ultimate test, but there‘s a hypocrisy to it. I‘m not in any way, just so we‘re clear, I have been a rape prosecutor. You know I‘m not condoning any allegation of sexual assault, but the question I have politically for you is the idea of the state of our politics right now, that it would take this in order to have this person be asked to step down. They still have not stepped down. And yet the conversation has not been — you said that Democrats don‘t care about rape victims. That‘s not true. But the conversation has been about why the party is being held hostage.”