REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Herman Cain is trying to explain his Rick Perry moment in a videotaped interview, just as the Georgia businessman tries to make his upstart campaign less controversial and more conventional.

US presidential contender Herman Cain’s attempts to put a sexual harassment scandal to rest were set back as a witness disputed the candidate’s claim that he had never met one of his accusers.

REPUBLICAN Herman Cain insisted yesterday he could not remember meeting a woman who has accused him of groping her in the 1990s, as a spiralling scandal threatened to derail his White House bid.

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Mr Cain has promised to “set the record straight” over claims he sexually assaulted a woman.

US Republican presidential contender Herman Cain reached under a woman’s skirt and pushed her head toward pants, she claimed today.