ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Donald J. Trump on Monday disparaged the latest woman to accuse him of touching her inappropriately, dismissing her as a “porn star” and saying sarcastically, “Oh, I’m sure she’s never been grabbed before.”
The comment was a response to the accuser, Jessica Drake, who over the weekend accused Mr. Trump of groping and kissing her without her permission in 2006. He also, she said, offered her $10,000 to go to his hotel room.
Ms. Drake, an actress in pornographic films, is one of several women to accuse him of unwanted aggressive sexual advances after the release of a 2005 recording in which Mr. Trump boasted of being able to sexually assault women without consensus
Mr. Trump has called all of the allegations lies and has said that he does not know the women.
But in a radio interview on WGIR’s “New Hampshire Today,” it was clear that Mr. Trump was aware of Ms. Drake.
“One said, ‘He grabbed me on the arm.’ And she’s a porn star,” Mr. Trump said, in comments that were first given widespread attention by CNN . “You know, this one that came out recently, ‘He grabbed me, and he grabbed me on the arm.’”
He added, “Oh, I’m sure she’s never been grabbed before.”
The Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly lashed out at the women who have accused him of misconduct, suggesting in some cases that they were not attractive enough to warrant his attention. He has also suggested that his accusers were seeking fame and working in conjunction with Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Over the weekend, Mr. Trump vowed to sue those who have come forward.
The accusations are part of a “rigged” system, he said, that includes a “dishonest” news media and “phony polls” that show him well behind Mrs. Clinton.
The Clinton campaign has denied colluding with Mr. Trump’s accusers. Gloria Allred, the lawyer representing several of the women, has said that she expects more to come forward publicly with their stories.
Mr. Trump did not mention his accusers during campaign events on Monday in Florida, but he did focus his attention on another enemy: polls.
He is down double digits in some national polls and is having to campaign in Republican-friendly Arizona in the final weeks before Election Day. The polling aggregation site Real Clear Politics has shifted the reliably red Texas to into the “tossup” states.
But from his perch onstage in St. Augustine, soaking in the screaming cheers of thousands of fervent supporters, Mr. Trump saw a different reality.
“Just in case you haven’t heard, we’re winning, not only Florida, but we’re winning everywhere,” Mr. Trump told the crowd.
He also shared the victorious sentiment at a farmers’ round-table discussion earlier in the day in Boynton Beach, Fla., telling the dozens of attendants that he was leading.
Numerous polls show Mr. Trump’s path to victory drawing narrower, and he trails Mrs. Clinton in several swing states. But, in Twitter posts and stump speeches, the national polls have become the latest component of the “rigged” system that Mr. Trump has been railing against in the final month of his campaign.
In St. Augustine, he blamed the “thieves and crooks” in the news media for reporting on the polling and said the polls themselves were biased, all of it, he said, amounting to voter suppression.
“It’s called voter suppression because people will say, ‘Oh, gee, Trump’s down,’” Mr. Trump told the crowd, before reminding it, “Well, folks, we’re winning.”
He furthered his attack, citing a report from The Wall Street Journal that found that the political organization attached to Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, a key Clinton ally, donated more than $465,000 to the 2015 State Senate campaign of Jill McCabe, the spouse of Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the F.B.I. The donation was
among many made that year by the group in an effort to win back a Democratic majority in the Virginia Senate.
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