Abortion Again Puts GOP On Defensive.
“Donald Trump and Republicans know they have a problem with women on abortion. Three weeks before the election, it’s showing up everywhere.
Across a series of debates over a roughly 24-hour span, Republicans twisted and tangled themselves on the issue: In Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz repeatedly declined to say whether he supports allowing abortions in cases of incest or rape. In Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, the Republican Senate nominee, called abortion a “state’s rights issue,” while also saying he supports exceptions to restrictions on the procedure and would not back a national ban. And in New Hampshire, where the GOP is locked in a close contest to keep the governor’s seat, Republican former Sen. Kelly Ayotte was again forced to defend her past votes to restrict abortion access.
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The right to ‘choose’ is an issue the GOP never imagined warming up to but with dismal polling among women many of them are doing just that. The overturning of ‘Roe’ was a huge gift to Democrats and it appears to continue to give years after it happened. The public is overwhelming in support of at least some abortion rights but the hard base of the GOP is stead fast against it and will not vote for candidates who support a women’s’ right to choose. Therein lies their conundrum.
