{"id":1025873,"date":"2023-09-22T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1025873"},"modified":"2023-09-22T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:51:16","slug":"icymi-new-york-times-opinion-donald-trump-is-not-of-two-minds-about-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-new-york-times-opinion-donald-trump-is-not-of-two-minds-about-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: New York Times Opinion: Donald Trump Is Not of Two Minds About Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1025874\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cAs recently as last week, in remarks to the Concerned Women of America Summit, Trump bragged about the anti-abortion record of his administration. \u2026 The truth, established by his record as president, is that he is as committed to outlawing abortion in the United States as any other conservative Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/22\/opinion\/trump-republicans-abortion-2024.html\">New York Times Opinion<\/a>: Donald Trump Is Not of Two Minds About Abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Jamelle Bouie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As a candidate for president in 2016, Donald Trump promised to put \u201cpro-life justices\u201d on the Supreme Court. He even issued a list of potential nominees that featured some of the most conservative judges in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As president, Trump made good on his promise, appointing three of the six justices who voted last year to overturn the Supreme Court\u2019s precedent in Roe v. Wade and end, after years of erosion, the constitutional right to an abortion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Each of these appointments \u2014 Neil Gorsuch in 2017, Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 \u2014 was a landmark occasion for the Trump administration and a major victory for the conservative movement. Trump used his court picks to energize Republican voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election and, later, took credit for the court\u2019s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization, the case that made Roe obsolete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Dobbs decision, Trump said in a statement, was \u201cthe biggest WIN for LIFE in a generation\u201d and was \u201conly made possible because I delivered everything as promised, including nominating and getting three highly respected and strong Constitutionalists confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.\u201d It was, he continued, \u201cmy great honor to do so!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As recently as last week, in remarks to the Concerned Women of America Summit, Trump bragged about the anti-abortion record of his administration. \u201cI\u2019m also proud to be the most pro-life president in American history,\u201d he said. \u201cI was the first sitting president ever to attend the March for Life rally right here in Washington, D.C.\u201d The biggest thing, he emphasized, was his appointment of three Supreme Court justices who \u201cruled to end the moral and constitutional atrocity known as Roe v. Wade.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cNobody thought that could be done,\u201d Trump said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The truth, established by his record as president, is that he is as committed to outlawing abortion in the United States as any other conservative Republican.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is no reason, then, to take seriously his remarks on Sunday, in an interview on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d where he criticized strict abortion bans and tried to distance himself from the anti-abortion policies of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump is triangulating. He sees, correctly, that the Republican Party is now on the wrong side of the public on abortion.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is a real chance this could work. In 2016, voters did not see Trump as a conservative figure on either abortion or gay rights, despite the fact that he was the standard-bearer for the party that wanted restrictions on both. It would be a version of the trick he pulled on Social Security and Medicare, where he posed as a defender of programs that have been in the cross-hairs of conservative Republicans since they were created.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>But there\u2019s an even greater chance that this gambit falls flat. There are the Democrats, who will have his record to highlight when they go on the offensive next year, assuming he\u2019s on the ballot as the Republican nominee. There is the political press, which should highlight the fact that Trump is directly responsible for the end of Roe (so far, it mostly has). And there are his rivals, like DeSantis, who are already pressing Trump to commit to further anti-abortion policies in a second term.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It\u2019s probably no accident then that Trump went to Iowa \u2014 where the Florida governor is investing the full resources of his campaign \u2014 to remind voters of his role in ending Roe. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t get the job done, I got the job done,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI got it done. With the three Supreme Court justices that I appointed, this issue has been returned to the states, where all legal scholars on both sides said it should be. Of course, now the pro-life community has tremendous negotiating power.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump is no longer the singular figure of 2016. He is enmeshed within the Republican Party. He has real commitments to allies and coalition partners within the conservative movement. He is the undisputed leader of the Republican Party, yes, but he can\u2019t simply jettison the abortion issue, which remains a central concern for much of the Republican base.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cWe\u2019re at a moment where we need a human rights advocate, someone who is dedicated to saving the lives of children and serving mothers in need. Every single candidate should be clear on how they plan to do that,\u201d Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement issued in response to Trump\u2019s comments on \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump will have to talk about abortion again and again, in a context that does him no political favors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is a larger point to make here. Because we are almost certain to see a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, it is easy to think that the next election will be a replay of the previous one in much the same way that the 1956 contest between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson was virtually identical to the one in 1952.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>But conditions will be very different in 2024 than they were in 2020. Trump will not be an incumbent and, according to my colleague Nate Cohn, he may not have the same scale of Electoral College advantage he enjoyed in his previous races. He\u2019ll be under intense legal scrutiny and, most important, he\u2019ll be a known quantity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The public won\u2019t have to imagine a Trump presidency. It will already know what to expect. And judging from Trump\u2019s attempt to get away from his own legacy, he probably knows that a majority of the voting public isn\u2019t eager to experience another four years with him at the helm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cAs recently as last week, in remarks to the Concerned Women of America Summit, Trump bragged about the anti-abortion record of his administration. \u2026 The truth, established by his record as president, is that he is as committed to outlawing abortion in the United States as any other conservative Republican.\u201d New York Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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