The 2016 presidential race, already the nastiest in modern history, is heading for new territory.

The daily drip of emails that were purportedly hacked from the private account of John D. Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, was obscured Wednesday evening by a new array of reports about Donald J. Trump’s conduct with women.

Mr. Trump said during the second presidential debate Sunday night that recordings of his boasting of sexual contact with women against their will were just “locker room talk” and did not represent actual actions. Several women have come forward to claim otherwise, saying that he touched them inappropriately.

Two spoke to The New York Times. A third spoke to The Palm Beach Post. And CBS played a video clip from 1992 in which Mr. Trump can be heard talking about a 10-year-old girl, saying that he would be dating her in 10 years.

And a former People magazine reporter on the Trump beat wrote that Mr. Trump had forced an unwanted kiss on her while she was on an assignment in 2005 and while his pregnant wife, Melania, was nearby. Mr. Trump’s campaign has denied all of the women’s accounts and has threatened to sue The Times.