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Donald Trump entered the second presidential debate in one of the most contentious U.S. presidential elections in decades facing the potential collapse of his campaign over revelations that he’d bragged about sexually assaulting women.

The Republican nominee went to astounding lengths Sunday night to deflect from the fallout, going so far as to threaten to jail rival Hillary Clinton if he were to win, and contradicting his own vice-presidential pick on questions of foreign policy, while tossing in support for embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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