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If Herman Cain cannot stand up to these charges, if he refuses to, then he should step out of the race. A man big enough to run for president should be big enough to have a full and candid press conference on all of this.

I think it's bad policy to do that. I also think it's going to be very bad politics, because of the opposition.

You're looking at a government that people distrust.

Look, there's one huge dominating issue in America right now. And that is the deficits and the economy and that's got everybody's attention, properly so.