At a North Carolina rally on October 20, in the final two weeks before the midterms, President Trump described studying the body and legs of Ohio Senator John Husted. The remarks were reportedly loaded into the teleprompter, and Trump repeated the riff at a South Carolina event, where he said he had examined Husted's ass and had never done that with a man before, and that he had fallen in love with Tim Scott as much as he can with a man. The discussion now centers on how the lines were written and approved, and whether the campaign will address them.