Trump's 'Locker Room Talk' Is 'What Sexual Abusers Do': Kaine

A federal judge ordered Florida election officials to extend the state's voter registration deadline to October 18, in response to damage and disruption caused by Hurricane Matthew.

The state's original deadline was October 11.

Florida Democrats and the state's League of Women Voters asked the judge for the extension. Gov. Rick Scott initially refused to push back the deadline, saying late last week, "Everybody has had a lot of time to register."

Donald Trump is out with a new television ad claiming Hillary Clinton "only cares about money, power and herself."

The ad will air nationally and be heavily rotated in battleground states, according to the Trump campaign.

When Donald Trump threatens to lock up Hillary Clinton if he were president, he's merely "channeling the frustrations of millions of Americans" — and doesn't ultimately have that power, his campaign manager suggested Wednesday.

"It wouldn't be up to him whether or not she goes to jail.That would have to be fully adjudicated through the regular channels like it would be for anyone else," Kellyanne Conway said on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Conway has been tamping down that remark first made by Trump during the second presidential debate on Sunday.

The GOP presidential nominee said as president he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate his Democratic rival over her "situation" — the scandal over her use of a private email server — and ultimately jail her.

Conway later appeared on Fox News and was asked how the campaign was preparing should more behind-the-scenes footage emerge from Trump's TV work.

"Well I don't know what's out there," she said. "There's no way for me to know what is and isn't out there. I only know what I read. And so we'll deal with them as they come, we'll have to find out what is on there, and what the context was."

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine once again rebuked Donald Trump's lewd comments about groping women, saying "there is no doubt that the behavior described in the video is sexual assault."

"You can't grab people's genitals," Kaine told radio host Solomon Jones Tuesday on 900 AM WURD in Philadelphia. "You know, that's sexual assault, I mean it's clear."

Kaine also criticized Trump and his supporters' attempts at defending the 2005 comments in the days since they were mined from the archives of Access Hollywood. Trump has dismissed his boasts about kissing and grabbing women without invitation as "locker room talk," while former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said "men at times talk like that."

Not so, said Kaine. "It's what sexual abusers do, but it's not what men do," he said.

In the interview, Kaine also sought to quell concerns his running mate, Hillary Clinton, was inappropriately communicating with the Justice Department during litigation involving her emails when she was secretary of state. Kaine said the hack that unearthed the correspondence between a Clinton aide and the DOJ was "beyond dispute" the work of the Russians and "should be an additional reason to vote" against Trump.

The hacked emails, released Tuesday by WikiLeaks, were purportedly from Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta's Gmail account. Last week, the U.S. government formally accused Russia of orchestrating cyber attacks against the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

"It is I think beyond dispute that the Russians are behind efforts to hack into these emails," Kaine said. "Not only John Podesta — Colin Powell, the DNC, various state boards of elections have been hacked. And our director of National Intelligence last Friday said that it is absolutely clear from all the evidence that this is being orchestrated by Russia to at a minimum destabilize the U.S. election and maybe at a maximum to put their thumb on the scale for Donald Trump."

He added: "This should be an additional reason to vote."

Former House Speaker John Boehner has described his party's presidential nominee as "barely a Republican."

Donald Trump is "not a conservative," Boehner told VICE News in an interview excerpt released Tuesday. "He's barely a Republican. He kind of became a Republican in order to run."

Still, Boehner said he'd be voting for Trump.

"His ideas, when you can get to them, are frankly more in the direction that I would want the country to go to than Hillary Clinton," he said. "Donald wasn't my first choice, wasn't my second choice. For that matter, he wasn't my third choice. But he's the nominee and I'm going to vote for him."

Boehner resigned in October 2015 after prolonged pressure from Republican conservatives who accused him of failing to fight President Barack Obama on key issues.

Tad Devine, who served as the top strategist on Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, came the defense of Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile Tuesday after hacked emails showed what some read as improper coordination between Brazile and the Clinton campaign.

Brazile said the question in the email was for a normal upcoming appearance on CNN and said she would regularly contact both campaigns for guidance.

"Yes that is absolutely true," Devine said of Brazile's account of the matter in an email to NBC News. "She would get in touch all the time for guidance, so I can verify her recollection on this issue."

The email, allegedly stolen from Clinton Campaign chair John Podesta's personal account and posted WikiLeaks, showed Brazile communicating with a Clinton aide about a question CNN planned to ask her. Brazile was a paid CNN contributor, and many observers assumed the question was one CNN planned to ask Clinton in a joint town hall with Sanders and Clinton.

That would have been improper since Brazile was also the co-chair of the DNC and thus supposed to remain neutral. But both Brazile and CNN denied that she even had access to the town hall questions, let alone leaked them to the Clinton campaign. Devine agreed.

"I don't think she gave anybody the questions," he said. "I was in touch with her all the time."

The Clinton campaign has refused to authenticate the emails.

Mike Pence had to talk down a supporter at an Iowa town hall Tuesday suggesting a "revolution" if Hillary Clinton becomes president.

The woman, who identified herself as Rhonda, told the GOP vice presidential nominee that she was worried because "our kids' futures depend on this election."

"I will tell you just for me — and I don't want this to happen — but I will tell you for me, personally, if Hillary Clinton gets in ... I'm ready for a revolution because we can't have her in," she said in an emotional moment.

Pence, who remains steadfast to running mate Donald Trump, interjected: "Yeah, you don't want — don't say that."

Instead, Indiana's governor shifted the focus to the ballot box, adding, "There's a revolution coming on November the 8th. I promise you."

Hecklers temporarily halted President Barack Obama's rally in support of Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Two protesters wearing hand-drawn T-shirts declaring "Bill Clinton is a rapist" broke through barriers, chanting and shouting before they were escorted out of the amphitheater. Obama paused for a couple of minutes while the crowd chanted "Hillary" to drown out the demonstrators.

"Those folks are auditioning for a reality show," Obama said.

Conservative pundit Alex Jones has offered $5,000 to anyone who gets on television wearing a "Bill Clinton rape" shirt or who is heard accusing the former president of sexual assault. (Bill Clinton has never faced criminal charges in relation to rape allegations.)

A few minutes later, Obama briefly paused again when crowds began booing another protester.

"Is somebody hollering again? You know what, here's the deal — try to get your own rally!" the president quipped to cheers. "See, if you can't get your own rally, don't come mess up somebody else's, right? We got work to do here!"

In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell, GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said he disagrees with House Speaker Paul Ryan's "focus in this campaign." On Monday, Ryan said he would no longer campaign with Donald Trump or defend him after video of the presidential nominee making sexually aggressive comments about touching and kissing women without their consent was made public.

"Paul Ryan is my friend but, yea, I respectfully disagree with his focus in this campaign," Pence said in an interview with O'Donnell. "Donald Trump and I couldn't be more grateful for the support that we're receiving from people all across this country, including Republican leaders."

Asked about a long list of Republicans who have withdrawn their support from the nominee, Pence said, "I think campaigns are about choices and this is a choice, not just between two people, but it's a choice between two futures. I think what people saw on Sunday night, on that stage, was in Donald Trump, there's a bold vision for a stronger America at home and abroad."

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Hillary Clinton won the second presidential debate, according to 44 percent of likely voters who watched or followed coverage of the face-off, which came in the wake of a controversy around vulgar comments Donald Trump made about women in 2005. Thirty-four percent of likely voters said Trump won the debate.