carly fiorina wants donald trump to be replaced by mike pence. | ap photo by katie glueck 10/08/16 11:45 am edt several prominent republican women on saturday retracted their support for donald trump, in a sign of just how toxic lewd leaked audio featuring the gop nominee has become. carly fiorina, a former republican presidential candidate, called on donald trump to "step aside" for the good of the republican party and make way for his running mate, indiana gov. mike pence. new hampshire sen. kelly ayotte, running a competitive race in a swing state, said she <u+201c>cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women.<u+201d> and sen. shelley moore capito of west virginia <u+2014> a trump stronghold -- said, <u+201c>the appropriate next step may be for him to reexamine his candidacy.<u+201d> story continued below " donald trump does not represent me or my party. i understand the responsibility of republicans to support their nominee. our nominee has weighty responsibilities as well. donald trump has manifestly failed in these responsibilities," fiorina said in a facebook post on saturday. fiorina, who briefly served as ted cruz's vice presidential pick during the waning days of the gop primary, said that a shift at the top of the ticket was necessary to defeat democrat hillary clinton. "i have traveled the country for years warning americans that hillary clinton is unfit to be president," fiorina wrote. "we must have a conservative in the white house to restore accountability, opportunity and security. for the sake of our constitution and the rule of law, we must defeat hillary clinton." she added: "today i ask donald trump to step aside and for the rnc to replace him with gov. mike pence." by bill scher by joshua zeitz by thomas wright by jack shafer
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