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Prophet TB Joshua Gives Fresh Details Why His US Election Prediction Failed

Popular Nigerian pastor, T.B Joshua has said thousands of people who prayed on Donald Trump's behalf forced the prophecy to be reversed.

Prophet T.B Joshua

 

Prophet T.B Joshua, founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nation (SCOAN) has given new insight why his prophecy that Hillary Clinton would become the next president of the United States failed.

 

He gave the new reason on Sunday in front of his congregation members.

 

The clergy man who came under severe criticism following the defeat of Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump in the 2016 US Presidential election as people attacked him for 'giving a false prophecy', said fervent prayers and the number of people who begged God to change his heart, reversef the prophecy to favour Trump.

 

According to NewTelegraph, Joshua cited biblical reference where prayer altered a prophecy, and likened Trump shock victory to the prophecy of Jonah to the people of Nineveh which said that God would destroy Nineveh within 40 days; but was eventually averted because the inhabitants of the city offered fervent prayers to God.

 

He went further to present many emails which he said he received from some Americans confirming that his prophecy on the election spurred them to intense prayers and which God eventually granted. His words: “Thousands of people that heard my prophecy prayed to God, they fasted and prayed that God should change the prophecy.

That a prophecy is disclosed and it did not come to pass does not mean that it is not authentic.” The author of one of the mails which was read out to the congregation during the service commended Joshua saying: “Your word came and challenged us to pray.

"It was like the prophecy of Jonah when God told him that he would destroy the people of Nineveh. Thank you prophet, your word saved America, it was a warning, like the prophecy of Jonah when the people prayed, and God changed His mind.

Prophet, God hears your prayer. We prayed and fasted.” Confirming the power of prayer in prophetic utterances, Joshua said, “They know my antecedent that what I say always come to pass.

"As a result, they went to God in prayer. This is the power of prayer; it is not a crime to tell you. If you have doubt, look at the track record of the person that is talking. I said that the boat will be rocked, and there will be challenges. What else do you need? Let’s believe in the power of prayer. He added: “We have seen the outcome of the election in America. You will notice that it is all about the popular vote, the vote of the majority of Americans. In this case, we need the spirit of a prophet to recognize or to know a prophet.

Our levels are different. We are not on the same level. We might have great cathedrals, huge bells and all kinds of activities that are good by human standards; but human point of view is limited."

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Wow! Donald Trump's U.S Presidency was Actually Predicted 16 Years Ago...See the Evidence

Donald Trump may have just won the U.S presidential election today, but his story was actually predicted several years ago.

Donald Trump depicted as president in an episode of The Simpsons

 

Donald Trump's presidency was predicted by The Simpsons about 16 years ago in an absurd forecast.

 

In an episode aired in 2000, the show portrays a grown-up Lisa as the incumbent, who refers to“inheriting quite a budget crunch from President Trump”.

 

The uncanny prediction occurred in Bart To The Future, an episode revealing how the lives of its central characters could turn out.

 

It later referenced his real-life run for the presidency again last year in a short clip called Trumptastic Voyage - though by this stage his candidacy was more commonly expected.

 

Earlier this year, Simpsons creator, Matt Groening told The Guardian they used Trump because he was"the most absurd placeholder joke name that we could think of".

 

He added: "That's still true, it's beyond satire. If by chance he gets elected, which I doubt highly will happen, I think we’ll suddenly be very inspired."

 

Dan Greaney, a long-time writer for the show, said it was a "warning to America".

 

He told The Hollywood Reporter: "That just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom. It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane."

 

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Omg! See the First Lesbian Governor Elected in the U.S (Photos)

In a historic landmark victory, a lesbian has been elected the governor of a state in the United States of America.

Kate Brown

 

For the first time, a U.S. state has elected an openly LGBT governor.

 

The landmark was reached in Oregon, where the Associated Press projects that Kate Brown has won the gubernatorial election. Brown was the incumbent in her race — but running for election for the first time.

 

She stepped in as governor of Oregon in February 2012, after former Gov. John Kitzhaber resigned over an influence-peddling scandal. She was secretary of state at the time; as Oregon does not have a lieutenant governor, she was first in the line of succession.

 

"Now, she'll serve the remaining two years of the four-year term Kitzhaber won during the 2014 election," Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

 

Earlier this year, during a graduation speech at Willamette University, Brown told the graduate about the years she spent in the closet, The Associated Press reports. She told the students she worried that she could lose her job if it was discovered she was bisexual.

 

Brown was outed in the '80s, and has been married to her husband since 1997. Slate reported last year that while it was not her choice to be out, she embraced her identity once it was public.

 

 

Brown was not the first LGBT person to serve as a governor — former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey came out as gay in 2004 and resigned months later. But she has now become the first openly LGBT person to win a gubernatorial election.

 

She spoke to the Washington Blade last month about what her victory would mean.

 

"You can't be what you can't see," she said. "If I can be a role model for one young person that decides that their life is worth living because there's someone like them in the world, it's worth it."

 

OPB has more on Brown's tenure so far:

"The state's political scene was roiling from Kitzhaber's abrupt departure amid a cloud of scandal. Brown pushed forward with a legislative agenda that included creating an automatic voter registration system, expanding the state's clean fuels mandate, and implementing a broad transportation funding package. While the first two items passed with mainly Democratic support, the transportation package failed to even come to a vote.

 

"As an unelected governor, Brown also was faced with guiding the state through a series of unusual and traumatic events, including a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College that left nine victims dead, a 41-day occupation by an armed group at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a searing drought that affected nearly the entire state, and a derailment of an oil train in the Columbia Gorge."

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Watch the Moment TB Joshua Predicted that Hillary Clinton will Win 2016 U.S Presidential Election (Video)

This is the moment Prophet TB Joshua of The Synagogue Church of All Nations prophesied that Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump in the U.S Presidential Election.

 

Prophet TB Joshua 

 

Following the shocking victory by Donald Trump to become the 45th President of the United States of America after defeating Hillary Clinton, Nigerians have dug deep to unravel the video in which Prophet T B Joshua had prophesied that Clinton would defeat Trump before thousands of his congregants.

 

Nigerians are not finding it funny at all as they have asked if the prophet did not see or hear well from God following his failed prediction.

 

Nigerians took to social media to mock, cajole and blast the prophet for the false prophecy.

 

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Tear Your Green Card Sir! - Nigerians Blast Wole Soyinka as Donald Trump Wins US Election

Following Donald Trump's shocking win in the US presidential elections, Nigeria's professor, Wole Soyinka has come under a blast.

 

Wole Soyinka

 

Many Nigerians on social media have called on Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, to tear his green card. This is following the vow he made should Donald Trump become the president of the United States.

 

It will be recalled that Soyinka made the vow last week while giving a speech to students of Oxford University, England.

 

According to the literary doyen, “If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that.”

 

“The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up,” said Soyinka, who is scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.

 

Trump won the US presidential election early this morning in an incredible victory that has shocked pundits and observers all around the world.

 

‎Democrats nominee, Hillary Clinton, had thanked her supporters and called Trump to concede defeat.

 

Twitter went agog following the results as some Nigerians reminded Soyinka of his vow, and others dragging him to the mud for ‘just opening his mouth to talk.’

 

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Markets, Dollar Plunge as Donald Trump Takes White House

There has been shocking financial reactions in the international market since the announcement of Donald Trump as the winner of the U.S. presidential election.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

Share markets plunged on Wednesday and the dollar tumbled against the yen and the euro as Donald Trump was elected US president, in a stunning upset with major implications for the world economy.

 

The Mexican peso also fell to a record low as safe-haven assets soared, with gold rising more than five percent and German government bonds rallying. Fears about the impact on financial markets led Japanese and South Korean authorities to call crisis talks.

Initial confidence that market favourite Hillary Clinton would win vanished as results showed the firebrand tycoon picking up the major scalps needed to take the White House.

After he won a swathe of states, Clinton called Trump to concede, handing him the keys to the White House. Markets have been plunged into turmoil as Clinton was considered by many investors to be a safer bet than Trump, who is seen as a loose cannon with policies many fear could wreck the world’s number-one economy.

 

“It’s been a bloodbath in the markets over the last few hours with the Mexican peso suffering particularly,” said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at OANDA. Tokyo had collapsed 5.4 percent by the end of trade, while Hong fell 2.2 percent and Shanghai sank 0.6 percent.

 

Sydney gave up almost two percent, Seoul shed 2.3 percent and Singapore dived 1.8 percent. Wellington plunged 3.3 percent while Taipei was 3.0 percent off. Manila skidded 2.5 percent and Jakarta two percent.

 

The Sensex on the Bombay Stock Exchange was three percent off, having initially plummeted more than six percent on Trump’s performance and news that high-denomination notes were being pulled from circulation as part of a crackdown on tax evasion.

 

Futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq on Wall Street dived more than five percent at one point while those on the Dow were off four percent. In early European trade London fell 1.9 percent, Paris lost 2.8 percent and Frankfurt dived 2.9 percent.

– Crisis talks –

 

The Mexican peso — which was battered by Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric earlier in the campaign — hit a record low against the dollar. The greenback soared to 20.7128 pesos, around its highest-ever point and about 12 percent up on earlier levels, before paring back slightly.

 

Trump’s anti-Mexican promises have included a pledge to remove undocumented immigrants, build a border wall and tear up a trade deal. Mexico’s Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade and central bank chief Agustin Carstens will address the media later in the day to outline actions after the peso’s losses.

 

The dollar tumbled against the yen as investors rushed into the Japanese unit, which is considered a safe bet in times of uncertainty. The greenback sank to 101.30 yen from above 105 Tuesday before edging back up to 103.00 yen. The sharp moves led Japan’s central bank and government to hold emergency talks as a stronger yen hammers the country’s crucial exporters.

 

Later it emerged Seoul’s financial regulatory body would hold an emergency meeting with executives at major local banks to monitor the impact of the result. The South Korean won was down 1.3 percent.

 

The euro also rose 2.1 percent against the dollar, while gold soared 5.4 percent at one point — its biggest rally since Britain’s June vote to leave the EU, which also jolted markets.

 

High-yielding currencies in Asia-Pacific were battered against the dollar, with Australia’s dollar 0.9 percent off, Indonesia’s rupiah down 0.8 percent and the Malaysian ringgit 0.4 percent lower.

 

Oil prices plunged, with both main contracts more than two percent down.

– Key figures around 0800 GMT

 

Tokyo – Nikkei 225: DOWN 5.4 percent at 16,251.54 (close)

 

Hong Kong – Hang Seng: DOWN 2.2 percent at 22,415.19 (close)

 

Shanghai – Composite: DOWN 0.6 percent at 3,128.37 (close)

 

London – FTSE 100: DOWN 1.9 percent at 6,718.85

 

Dollar/Mexican peso: UP at 20.1100 from 18.6152 pesos

 

- Late Tuesday

 

Pound/dollar: UP at $1.2500 from $1.2378

 

Euro/pound: UP at 90.07 pence from 89.03 pence

 

Euro/dollar: UP at $1.1243 from $1.1020 Dollar/yen: DOWN at 103.00 yen from 105.14 yen

 

Oil – West Texas Intermediate: DOWN $1.22 at $43.76 per barrel

 

Oil – Brent North Sea: DOWN $1.08 to $44.96 per barrel

 

New York – Dow: UP 0.4 percent at 18,332.43 (close)

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Hillary Clinton Supporters Weep Bitterly as Donald Trump Shocks the World to Become U.S President (Photos)

The mood was sombre and tears were shed as those who backed Hillary to be the first female American Commander in Chief saw victory slip away.

Some of the supporters of Hillary Clinton in tears

 

The victory of Republican Party presidential candidate, Donald Trump has brought mixed feelings to Americans with his supporters buzzing while the camp of his Democratic Party counterpart, Hillary Clinton has been filled with agony, pain and gnashing of teeth even in public places.

Women looked inconsolable, and many of her supporters appeared to be dumbfounded in shock according to The SUN.

The bad news kept coming throughout the evening as Clinton lost out to Donald Trump in key battleground states including Florida, North Carolina and Ohio – which has again predicted the winning nominee having picked every US President since 1964.

Republic nominee Trump also won in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
 

Emotions were running high at the ‘party’ held for the Democrat nominee in Manhattan. The soiree had a sombre mood, after being billed as the “Hillary for America Election Night Event” and opened up to the public.

As states began to slip away one by one and Trump increased his lead, there was a tidal wave of desperation from those who had backed her. Senior staff were nowhere to be seen, while Clinton was hunkered down in her hotel suite watching the results.

Meanwhile, over at the New York Hilton, there were scenes of jubilation as his supporters chanted“President Trump” and “lock her up”.

However the real estate tycoon and billionaire clawed sizeable victories which tipped the election firmly in his favour. It looked like a new record had been set in the turnout with some reports suggesting 140million voters took part, far higher than the 131.4million total in 2008.

 

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Hillary Clinton Supporters Weep Bitterly as Donald Trump Shocks the World to Become U.S President (Photos)

The mood was sombre and tears were shed as those who backed Hillary to be the first female American Commander in Chief saw victory slip away.

Some of the supporters of Hillary Clinton in tears

 

The victory of Republican Party presidential candidate, Donald Trump has brought mixed feelings to Americans with his supporters buzzing while the camp of his Democratic Party counterpart, Hillary Clinton has been filled with agony, pain and gnashing of teeth even in public places.

Women looked inconsolable, and many of her supporters appeared to be dumbfounded in shock according to The SUN.

The bad news kept coming throughout the evening as Clinton lost out to Donald Trump in key battleground states including Florida, North Carolina and Ohio – which has again predicted the winning nominee having picked every US President since 1964.

Republic nominee Trump also won in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
 

Emotions were running high at the ‘party’ held for the Democrat nominee in Manhattan. The soiree had a sombre mood, after being billed as the “Hillary for America Election Night Event” and opened up to the public.

As states began to slip away one by one and Trump increased his lead, there was a tidal wave of desperation from those who had backed her. Senior staff were nowhere to be seen, while Clinton was hunkered down in her hotel suite watching the results.

Meanwhile, over at the New York Hilton, there were scenes of jubilation as his supporters chanted“President Trump” and “lock her up”.

However the real estate tycoon and billionaire clawed sizeable victories which tipped the election firmly in his favour. It looked like a new record had been set in the turnout with some reports suggesting 140million voters took part, far higher than the 131.4million total in 2008.

 

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Ejike, Rasheed, Chidi & More: Meet Nigerian Candidates in Today's U.S. General Elections (Photos)

The names of four Americans of Nigerian descent are on ballots in grassroots elections at township and county levels as citizens of the United States of America head to the polls in the country's general elections today.

Charles Onyejiaka

 

Americans in Franklin, New Jersey, will vote for Charles Ejike Onyejiaka, a fellow citizen and a transplant from Imo State, Nigeria, as the U.S. general election unfolds today.

 

The Nigerian from the eastern part of the country who is a democrat, is the incumbent in a two-way race for Ward 3 Councilman seat in Franklin. He was one of three men presented to Franklin Town Council as fill-in candidates for the unexpired term of Phil Kramer, former Ward 3 Councilman, who became Mayor of Franklin last January.

 

Onyejiaka beat Alex Kharazi and Azim Uddin, also democrats and immigrants, to succeed Kramer. Today, he is contesting against Beverly Briggs-Lawson, a Republican, in the general election.

 

He is one of four Americans of Nigerian descent whose names are on ballots in grassroots elections at township and county levels this year. The others are George Chidi, Rasheed ‘BJ’ Dawodu and April Ademiluyi. All four are product of currents of civic engagement by hundreds of immigrants and first generation Americans who maintain their ties to Nigeria even as they live relatively comfortable lives in the United States.

 

George Chidi

 

George Chidi is also a veteran and, the son of George Njoku Chidi, a native of Umuoye in Imo State. The younger George is running for a seat on the Board of Commissioners in DeKalb County, Georgia. His story reads almost like that of Barack Obama. His dad arrived Massachusetts in 1970 on a student visa, met his mum who is a Caucasian of Polish descent.

 

They got married and, unlike Obama’s dad, the older George stayed in the United States. George junior was an active duty soldier in the 25th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army for five years and, he has been a journalist and civic leader for twenty years.

 

Of the four Nigerian-Americans running for office, he seems to have the deepest connection to his constituents and the widest name recognition among Americans and Nigerian-Americans alike. He defeated eight other aspirants to become the Democratic nominee for this general election which he is strongly favored to win. He is very supportive of the Nigerian immigrant community, he is a known face at their social events and an active promoter of worthy causes, including the candidacy of Rasheed Bolaji (or ‘BJ’) Dawodu.

 

Rasheed ‘BJ’ Dawodu

 

Mr. Dawodu, a Democrat, is running against Republican Kristie King for the position of Tax Commissioner in Fayette County, Georgia. A small business owner and seasoned financial management professional, Dawodu relocated to the United States from his native Lagos (Isale Eko) more than 20 years ago. He worked extensively in the public sector before going into private practice, his bid for office of the Tax Commissioner is actively supported by Fayette Chamber of Commerce and his immigrant constituency.

 

April Ademiluyi is the only female American of Nigerian descent contesting in the general election and she is contesting for a judicial not administrative position. She is a candidate for the Seventh Circuit Court in Prince George’s County, Maryland. April is a first generation American with roots in the Ademiluyi royal family in Ife.

 

Election into Circuit Courts is non-partisan, candidates participate in as many party primaries as they choose but they have to win at least one primary to get on the ballot. Ms. Ademiluyi won the Libertarian Party primary.

 

Prince George’s county is reputed to be home to some of the richest Nigerians in the United States, there have been some local fund raising gatherings to support April’s candidacy. She also got a boost from NAPAC president, Mr. Segun Adeyina who came from Georgia to campaign for her.

 

April Ademiluyi

 

Township and county level elections usually do not attract polling agencies so it is not easy to track the progress of these candidates. One thing that can be said for all of them is, if elected, their constituencies will get top-tier professionals and more in each of them.

 

Charles Onyejiaka has a degree in Electronics Engineering from Thomas Edison State University, he is also something of a veteran public servant with experience dating back to Nigeria’s Second Republic.

 

George Chidi has a bachelor degree in Journalism, MBA from Georgia Tech and was chief executive officer of a firm that markets competitive intelligence for corporate clients.

 

Rasheed Dawodu has degrees in accounting, law, public finance and is a certified fraud examiner. He has worked for Fortune 500 firms including General Electric and Georgia Pacific.

 

April Ademiluyi has a first degree was in Chemical Engineering, law degree from an Ivy League university and has been recognized by Congressional leaders for working with families facing foreclosure.

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Finally, Prophet TB Joshua Predicts Who Will Win US Presidential Election...See Details

Revered man of God and founder of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations, TB Joshua has left a shocking prediction of who will win the US Presidential election.

US Presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

 

Prophet T B Joshua has predicted who will win US Presidential election between Republican candidate, Donald Trump and Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton which will hold on Tuesday November 8th 2016.

 

The man of God made the disclosure while speaking to a packed congregation at The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) on Sunday 6th November 2016, a service broadcast live to millions more on the popular Christian channel Emmanuel TV. Joshua said he saw the outcome in a ‘vision’ 10 days ago.

“Ten days ago, I saw the new President of America with a narrow win,” the cleric, who is renowned for his controversial prophetic abilities, began. According to what he saw, the female candidate would win the Presidential election.

 

He however said the new President would be visited with many challenges including attempts to possibly pass a "vote of no confidence” amidst difficulties in the passing of bills. 

 

“The boat of the new President will be rocked,” he said

“In order not to keep you in suspense, what I frankly saw is a woman,” he stated, in a message subsequently posted to his official Facebook page followed by over 2.5 million people.

 

Joshua, however, lauded Clinton’s outspoken opponent Donald Trump. “I want to salute the opposition – a very strong man and courageous. He is my friend because he is very, very courageous. Challenges don’t mean anything to him. The more they abuse him, the more he comes out to talk and smile.”

 

With several predictions circulating online which forecast a positive outcome for Trump, Joshua clarified that such visions may have been seen at an earlier date. “The men of God that said opposite – maybe they saw it 15 days ago,” he explained.

 

Joshua went further to reveal that two states would be instrumental in Clinton’s impending victory at the polls.

 

“Challenges determine where you are spiritually,” he told the faithful earlier in a sermon. “How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.”

 

This is not the first time the man of God is making such predictions. He is known to have correctly predicted the death of iconic pop legend Michael Jackson, ISIS-inspired terror incidents in Paris and the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.

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Trump Says Election Being Rigged 'At Many Polling Places'

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump dug deeper in his efforts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the U.S. election, saying on Twitter on Sunday that he believed the results were being "rigged" at many polling places.

His tweet came hours after his vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, said Republicans would accept the outcome of the Nov. 8 contest between Trump and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

"The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD," Trump wrote on Twitter, in the latest of a series of comments he has made over the past several days calling into question the fairness of the election.

Trump, who is trailing Clinton in opinion polls, did not provide any evidence to back his allegations of impropriety at the voting booth

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Trump, Clinton hit campaign trail after fiery debate



Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Monday headed back to the campaign trail after a fiery presidential debate, with the Republican looking to bounce back after a weekend that crippled his White House bid.

With just over four weeks to go before American voters head to the ballot boxes to choose their next commander-in-chief, the candidates traveled to swing states — Trump to Pennsylvania and Clinton to Michigan and Ohio — to court voters.

On Sunday, before tens of millions of television viewers and a live audience including Bill Clinton and three women who have accused him of abuse, Trump threatened to jail his Democratic rival and lobbed incendiary allegations against her former president husband.

The 70-year-old real estate mogul, seeking to stem the bleeding in his campaign after scores of Republicans deserted him, apologized Sunday for “locker room talk” in which he bragged about groping women.

But he stated baldly that “Bill Clinton was abusive to women.”

“If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse,” Trump insisted. “Mine are words, his was action,” he said.

Shattering the last vestiges of political decorum, Trump threatened the former secretary of state — whom he accused of having “hate in her heart” — with imprisonment if he wins the presidency.

“If I win, I’m going to instruct the attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there’s never been so many lies, so much deception,” Trump said.

The 68-year-old former first lady and US senator, who is vying to be America’s first female president, pushed back by saying Trump’s lewd comments merely showed his true self.

“This is who Donald Trump is, and the question for us, the question our country must answer is that this is not who we are,” she said.

When Clinton said that it was “awfully good” that someone with Trump’s temperament was “not in charge of the law of our country,” he shot back: “Because you’d be in jail.”

Two separate polls showed Clinton had prevailed in the second of three presidential debates.

A CNN/ORC survey of debate watchers put her up 57-34 percent, while a YouGov snap poll put her margin of victory closer at 47-42 percent.

“I think last night he showed his heart to the American people. He said he apologized to his family, apologized to the American people, that he was embarrassed by it,” Trump’s running mate Mike Pence told CNN on Monday.

“And then he moved on to the real choice in this election, which is really not just a choice between two candidates — it’s a choice between two futures,” said Pence, who had said over the weekend he himself was “offended” by Trump’s remarks.

– End game –

Trump faces a make-or-break moment after his crude boasts, which he made in 2005 and which became public in a video released Friday, as streams of Republicans have retracted their support for his campaign.

With a campaign based on earning free television air time and little ground game, Trump is dependent on the Republican Party machinery to get out the vote.

The party leadership had been deeply angered by Trump’s misogynistic remarks, and Pence said they were indefensible, though he was back on his side by Sunday night.

In an extraordinary step aimed at reversing the tide of public opinion, Trump had convened a press event just minutes before the debate that included several women who accuse Bill Clinton of sexual harassment and rape — later invited to attend the debate.

Introduced by Trump as “very courageous women,” the speakers included Paula Jones, a former government employee in Arkansas who sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment, and Juanita Broaddrick, also of Arkansas, who claims that Clinton raped her in 1978.

But Trump needs a dramatic boost if he is to claw back ground against Clinton, who has surged in the polls since their first debate on September 26.

Larry Sabato, who heads the Center for Politics at University of Virginia, tweeted that “Trump has done well enough to stop GOP bleeding.”

But Dante Scala, political science professor at the University of New Hampshire, said he doubts Trump can recover.

“I didn’t see enough this evening to turn things around,” Scala told AFP.

“The news of the last 48 hours will continue to settle into voters’ minds and I’m not sure this debate will be enough in itself to change the trajectory of the race.”

– ‘Abuse of power’ –

Trump’s threat to jail Clinton over her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state sparked a firestorm of criticism, as critics painted him as a dictator in the making.

“In the USA we do not threaten to jail political opponents. @realDonaldTrump said he would. He is promising to abuse the power of the office,” President Barack Obama’s former attorney general, Eric Holder, said in a tweet.

A number of fellow Republicans also tarred Trump as undemocratic.

“Winning candidates don’t threaten to put opponents in jail,” said former George W. Bush White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

In Sunday’s debate in St Louis, Clinton largely refused to respond to Trump’s barrage of attacks, opting to adhere to advice from First Lady Michelle Obama: “When they go low, you go high.”

“This is not an ordinary time and this is not an ordinary election,” she said.

But, as in the first debate, she also laid a series of traps for Trump, prodding him toward admitting he had not paid federal income tax in around two decades.

“Donald Trump’s trying to change the dynamic. But I would argue he’s just digging the hole deeper with these attacks,” Clinton’s campaign manage Robby Mook told CBS on Monday.

AFP

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Sexual Remarks: Trump Vows Never To Quit

Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to "never" drop out of the presidential race as a growing chorus of Republicans urged him to do exactly that after sexually aggressive remarks he made in 2005 surfaced a day earlier.

The Republican nominee, eager to dispel notions of waning support, emerged from the front entrance of Trump Tower in Manhattan late Saturday afternoon to greet a throng of cheering fans after spending the day huddled with campaign advisers.

For just over a minute, he shook several hands, pumped his fist in the air and waved to the supporters and passersby huddled on a rainy Fifth Avenue before heading back inside. Asked by reporters if he planned to stay in the race, Trump answered simply: "100%."

But meanwhile, Trump's campaign appeared to be deteriorating around him as the Republican Party descended into a state of chaos.

His own running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, said he was "offended" by Trump's remarks and canceled plans to represent him at a political event on Saturday.

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US Election: Trump 'Fool' And Clinton 'Weak', Say VPs

Donald Trump was likened to a "fool or maniac" while Hillary Clinton was dismissed as "weak and feckless" in a punchy vice-presidential debate.

Democratic Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence clashed on a series of topics ranging from abortion to Russia. But they focused their sharpest exchanges on Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump.

The running mates tangled at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, 34 days before Americans go to the polls.

It set the stage for a second presidential debate this Sunday in St Louis, Missouri, where Mr Trump needs to rebound from a wobbly performance in the first match.

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