Donald Trumpās plan for a 16-week, national abortion ban wasnāt supposed to be public. Democrats are ready to pounce
LATE LAST WEEK, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump privately told his allies he backs a 16-week national abortion ban with some exceptions. Inside the Trump campaign, the news was immediately met with deep annoyance, anger, and a scramble for damage control, two people familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone.
Prior to the report, the former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner had repeatedly stressed to advisers that he wants to avoid announcing specific abortion policy positions, at least during this stage of the election cycle, sources close to him say. This is, of course, largely because he understands the dismantling of Roe v. Wade ā which he engineered ā has become a grave political liability for Republicans.
Members of Trumpās senior staff were maddened by the leak to the Times, venting to one another that whoever blabbed to the media about this wasnāt being helpful, the two sources recount. They werenāt the only ones upset by it: The report also served to inflame some of the anti-abortion movementās most uncompromising figures, who lashed out at Trump for being insufficiently āpro-life.ā Some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill winced at the news too; they, like Trump, hoped to spend the first half of 2024 talking about abortion as little as possible, according to one GOP lawmaker who bemoaned the recent string of conservativesā election losses that have largely been attributed to āthe Dobbs effect.ā Democrats, on the other hand, were thrilled.
A real square peg in a round hole.
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