Trump’s yearlong struggle to arrive at a position augurs poorly for a GOP that can’t ignore this issue -- no matter how much it might want to.
Joan Bell of Montague, N.J., prays for Donald Trump as she listens to him speak on Jan. 6, 2021. No modern presidency has been as consequential for the antiabortion movement as Donald Trump’s. And perhaps no present-day politician appears as uncertain about what to do about the issue now as Donald Trump.on whether to enshrine abortion rights into law — and whether to effectively veto Gov. Ron DeSantis’s and the state GOP’s six-week abortion ban — arrived this week.
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee has responded to this development with all the political certainty of a college freshman running for class president. And his hemming and hawing — even after effectively locking up the Republican nomination — speaks volumes about how much this sudden liability of an issue looms over the GOP’s 2024 hopes.
In January, a woman at a Fox News town hall urged Trump not to “compromise” on abortion. Trump provided no clarity on his position, but he did say four times that the GOP needs to “win elections” — the implication being that it shouldn’t alienate voters by being too extreme., according to the New York Times. One said Trump liked that number not because of anything specific to the gestation process but because, “It’s even. It’s four months.
In late February, Trump floated 15 weeks but suggested it should be a state issue. “More and more I’m hearing about 15 weeks, and I haven’t decided yet,” he told Sean Hannity on Fox News. “Also, we got it back to the states where it belongs.”, saying “maybe we could bring the country together on that issue. … Fifteen weeks seems to be a number that people are agreeing at. But I’ll make that announcement at the appropriate time.”.
Trump clearly doesn’t want that to happen to him. But it’s not as if he can spend the next seven months punting on this issue. And the fact that he still doesn’t have a good, ready-made answer a month after wrapping up the GOP nomination suggests that perhaps there just isn’t one.
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