former u.s. sen. bob dole said he is standing by donald trump after a decade-old recording emerged in which the republican presidential nominee speaks in crude sexual terms about women . mr. dole, the republican party<u+2019>s presidential pick in 1996, is the only former gop nominee to express support for mr. trump. reached by phone on saturday, mr. dole said he had <u+201c>great respect<u+201d> for sen. john mccain of arizona, who said earlier in the day that he would no longer support the party<u+2019>s 2016 nominee. <u+201c>i look at it a little differently,<u+201d> the 93-year-old mr. dole said. <u+201c>i<u+2019>ve been a republican forever. the party has been very good to me. i<u+2019>ve had many opportunities as a republican, and i find it very difficult to desert the party after trump won 40% of the vote in the primary.<u+201d> <u+201c>it was 11 years ago,<u+201d> mr. dole said. <u+201c>he shouldn<u+2019>t have said it, but there<u+2019>s nothing he can do about it except to do well in the debate. i think he can overcome a lot of this in the debate tomorrow night.<u+201d> <u+201c>the clintons aren<u+2019>t pure either,<u+201d> mr. dole said. mr. dole said mr. trump must do better in sunday<u+2019>s debate than he did in his previous faceoff against democratic nominee hillary clinton. <u+201c>he started off pretty good last time but didn<u+2019>t do well in the finish. tomorrow he<u+2019>s got to do well for 90 minutes,<u+201d> mr. dole said. <u+201c>no insults,<u+201d> mr. dole said. <u+201c>he<u+2019>s should talk about women, and what he truly feels about women, and what he<u+2019>s done for women.<u+201d> write to michael c. bender at mike.bender@wsj.com
former u.s. sen. bob dole maintains support for donald trump   - wsj
michael c. bender