Leading Republicans are furiously denouncing Trump for his leaked comments about women

The leak of Donald Trump’s recorded 2005 comments describing his behavior toward women has quickly brought his campaign to a crisis point.

Republican officials are lining up to denounce the GOP nominee’s remarks in very strong terms indeed. Some of them, like Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, have long been critical of Trump — though it’s significant that they’ve now chosen to be much more vocal about this criticism just a month before the election.

Yet potentially much more significant is this statement from RNC chair Reince Priebus, who has been staunchly in Trump’s corner of late:

It is not clear whether Priebus will back up these strong words by, say, renouncing his support of Trump. But this condemnation of the GOP nominee by the RNC chair one month before the election is certainly an inconvenient — even an unprecedented? — thing.

Furthermore, Speaker Paul Ryan and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — both Trump supporters — have jointly disinvited him from a campaign event that had been scheduled for Saturday.

Paul Ryan disinvited Trump from his Wisconsin event tomorrow pic.twitter.com/lUkpSbuIok

— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) October 8, 2016

More from @KellyO: It was "a joint decision" by Ryan and Gov. Walker to disinvite Donald Trump to the Wisconsin GOP event Saturday night.

— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) October 8, 2016

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have spoken up too:

These comments are disturbing and inappropriate, there is simply no excuse for them.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 8, 2016

Donald's comments were vulgar, egregious & impossible to justify.
No one should ever talk about any woman in those terms, even in private.

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) October 8, 2016

Gov. Gary Herbert (R-UT) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) went as far as withdrawing their endorsements of Trump:

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, who over the summer had said he would vote for Donald Trump, has withdrawn his support https://t.co/InEncwTLpQ

— CNN (@CNN) October 8, 2016

Comment from @jasoninthehouse retracting his Trump endorsement https://t.co/mejs8jvRtX pic.twitter.com/EjDzxcCHv7

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) October 8, 2016

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans in competitive races are also throwing Trump under the bus to try and save themselves:

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