Trump jokes about lurking behind Clinton at debate: 'The last space I want to invade is her space'

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the second presidential debate.
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At a rally in Florida on Wednesday, Donald Trump addressed the post-debate hysteria about him lurking behind Hillary Clinton as she answered voter questions at Sunday's second presidential debate. "Believe me," Trump told the crowd, "the last space I want to invade is her space."

On the heels of the Friday release of a grotesque audio tape, in which Trump is heard graphically describing forcing himself on women, many took the implication of Trump's comment Wednesday a step further:

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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.