WASHINGTON — Former President Trump is still struggling to land on an abortion answer that will satisfy both moderate voters and his party’s anti-abortion contingent, and Vice President Harris hammered him for it at Tuesday night’s debate.
In Trump’s telling, the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade was popular across the nation. But Trump also doesn’t want to be associated with many Republicans’ longtime plans for a national ban, reflecting the political quagmire the issue has become for the GOP.
“I’m not signing a ban, and there’s no reason to sign a ban because we’ve gotten what everybody wanted,” Trump said during his first debate against Harris. The Democratic candidate hammered him on his shifting stance while highlighting conservative groups’ anti-abortion proposals — leading Trump to once again throw distance between himself and a pack of his former officials.
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