Biden: I Wish I Could Take Trump 'Behind The Gym'
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (CBSNewYork) -- A heated Vice President Joe Biden implied he would have fought Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in high school for the comments he made about women.
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"The press always asks me, don't I wish I were debating him," Biden said at a rally for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Friday. "No, I wish we were in high school and I can take him behind the gym. That's what I wish."
Several woman have come forward and claimed Trump sexually assaulted them after an "Access Hollywood" tape from 2005 surfaced where the GOP nominee was bragging to then host Billy Bush about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women who were not his wife.
"You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful … I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," Trump said on the video.
"Grab them by the p—-. You can do anything," Trump added.
A fiery Biden called it a "textbook definition of sexual assault."
"What he said he did and does is a textbook definition of sexual assault," said Biden. "Think about this, it's more than wrong. He said because I'm famous, because I'm a star, because I'm a billionaire I can do things other people can't. What a disgusting assertion for anyone to make."
Republican pollster and CBS News contributor Frank Luntz asked "where are the media cries of 'unpresidential'?" following Biden's comments.
A recent CBS News Battleground Tracker poll shows Clinton leading Trump nationally by nine points.
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