VOA常速英语：特朗普攻击共和党斥其放弃竞选

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at fellow Republicans for giving up on his campaign and instead focusing on House and Senate races and keeping control of Congress.
With Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a double-digit lead in one poll and experts giving her an 86 percent chance of winning the election, top Republicans have seemingly conceded the presidential race to the Democrats.
Trump ranted against the Republicans on Twitter, calling House Speaker Paul Ryan, who is no longer campaigning for Trump, a "very weak and ineffective leader."
"Disloyal R's [Republicans] are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don't know how to win. I will teach them." Trump tweeted.
No more 'shackles'
But he also sounded a bit grateful not to be saddled with politicians he considers to be losers.
"It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me, and I can now fight for America the way I want to." He called Democrats "far more loyal to each other than the Republicans!"
Trump's campaign may have been mortally wounded by the emergence of a 2005 videotape in which he made crude comments about women, telling a TV host that he can grope women because he is a "star."
The While House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama found Trump's remarks about groping women "repugnant" and considered it sexual assault.
Republican apologizes, attacks
Trump apologized for his 2005 words during Sunday's debate with Clinton, calling it "locker room talk" and that he was not proud of his remarks. He said he was embarrassed and hated what he said.
But he viciously attacked Clinton during the debate, saying she had threatened several women who accused her husband, former President Bill Clinton, of raping and sexually abusing them.
Trump gave three of Bill Clinton's alleged victims front-row seats at the debate and pointed them out to the audience several times.
Hillary Clinton ignored the sexual assault issue Tuesday during an appearance in Miami in favor of what she called a global crisis: climate change. She called global warming a real and urgent problem and said the U.S. could take the lead in addressing it. Clinton said she fully backed the Paris Agreement on climate change, while Trump wants to scrap it. She reminded the crowd that Trump has called global warming a Chinese-created hoax.
On Tuesday, Clinton appeared with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, founder of the Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit group focused on addressing climate change. Gore said the nation needs a leader who is passionate about the environment instead of a denier who would take the globe to "climate catastrophe." He pointed to Hurricane Matthew as an example of the stronger and deadlier storms that develop because of warmer seas.
Registering to vote
Gore barely lost the White House in the extremely close and controversial 2000 election that needed to be settled by the Supreme Court because of flawed Florida ballots.
Although he was joking when he said he had firsthand experience of how every vote counts, he was quite serious in urging anyone who has not yet registered for the November 8 election to do so now. He said staying home was not an option because the stakes could not be higher.