Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives on the airport on Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump is visiting Atlanta for a marketing campaign fundraising occasion he’s internet hosting.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives on the airport on Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump is visiting Atlanta for a marketing campaign fundraising occasion he’s internet hosting.
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This week, Donald Trump upset abortion rights opponents by not mentioning a federal ban in his long-awaited abortion coverage announcement.
Now, he is going additional — telling reporters in Atlanta that he wouldn’t signal a federal ban, even when one got here to his desk.
Responding to a shouted query about whether or not he would signal a ban if Congress handed one, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee shook his head and repeated “no” twice.
Trump says that Arizona’s abortion ruling went too far: “Yeah they did, and that can be straightened out.”
Additionally tells @ABC he wouldn’t signal a nationwide abortion ban as president. pic.twitter.com/wQdByVodtv
— Lalee Ibssa (@LaleeIbssa) April 10, 2024
It is one other twist in Trump’s lengthy historical past of shifting stances on abortion rights. As president, Trump supported a 20-week federal abortion ban, and in current weeks has stated he was open to fifteen weeks.
Even earlier than that, when he was operating for president in 2016, at one level he stated ladies looking for abortions ought to obtain “some type of punishment.”
In his remarks to reporters on Wednesday, Trump additionally addressed the Arizona Supreme Courtroom’s determination to permit an 1864 near-total ban to be enforced.
Requested if the state courtroom went too far, Trump responded, “Yeah they did, and that can be straightened out.”
He was additionally requested in regards to the current determination in Florida, his house state, to permit a 6-week ban to take impact. In response, Trump implied that he needs Arizona and Florida to loosen their abortion restrictions. However whereas criticizing these states’ bans, he additionally stated he helps states’ rights to resolve their very own abortion insurance policies.
“Now the states have it and the states are placing out what they need. It is the need of the folks,” he stated. “So Florida’s in all probability going to vary, Arizona’s going to positively change, all people needs that to occur.”
For the reason that overturn of Roe v. Wade, abortion rights have repeatedly gained in statewide poll measures. As well as, abortion has confirmed to inspire voters in state legislature elections. Each Florida and Arizona will possible see a query on abortion entry on their ballots this fall.
With that in thoughts, the Biden marketing campaign has been attacking Trump on abortion rights all through this marketing campaign. The Biden marketing campaign launched an announcement in response to Trump’s Wednesday remarks.
“Donald Trump owns the struggling and chaos taking place proper now, together with in Arizona, as a result of he proudly overturned Roe – one thing he referred to as ‘an unimaginable factor’ and ‘fairly superb’ simply at this time,” stated communications director Michael Tyler.
