After Debate, Trump’s Candidacy Still Leaves Questions for GOP

House Republicans are preparing to hold a conference call today and, after a weekend when a wave of party leaders withdrew their support from their GOP presidential nominee, the subject of Trump’s candidacy is expected to come up.

Trump is considered by many observers to have done well enough in Sunday’s debate against Hillary Clinton to keep his campaign alive, despite the growing number of Republican defections over a 2005 recording of Trump making vulgar comments about women.

But the GOP nominee’s debate performance was not strong enough to put him in a position to win the election — creating what ABC political analyst Matthew Dowd called a “worst-case scenario” for the Republican Party.

On top of that, there are rumors that more potentially damaging tapes or revelations about the Republican nominee could come.

“We don’t have any idea what’s going to come out in the next few weeks,” Dowd said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Dowd suggested that GOP congressional representatives and candidates who have not yet publicly responded to the tape of Trump’s 2005 comments may now be stuck on the fence, having to decide whether to support their party’s nominee — or not.