A new ad campaign sponsored by George Conway's Anti-Psychopath PAC features two women, Natasha Stoynoff and Jessica Leeds, who say former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted them. More than a dozen women have described similar encounters with the Republican presidential nominee, and their accounts are consistent with the behavior that Trump bragged about in the Access Hollywood tape that surfaced the month before the 2016 election. One of those women, journalist E. Jean Carroll, obtained a $5 million civil verdict against Trump last year after a New York jury concluded it was more likely than not that he had sexually assaulted her in 1996.
With the exception of the Carroll verdict, all of this information was available to voters in 2016. They nevertheless elected a man who had been credibly described as a sexual predator—by himself as well as his accusers. It therefore seems doubtful that reminding voters of all this will make a difference in this year's election. Yet the crimes that Carroll et al. allege are far more troubling than Trump's 34 felony convictions, which Trump's Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, highlights by depicting the race as a contest between a prosecutor and a felon.
