While hardcore anti-abortion works in some place’s?
It cost the party elections in a lot of others…….
Party leaders ARE warning their people to think and become more flexible on the subject in some places….
The majority of Americasn DO support abortion on some level…..
This will add to the Grand ole Parties internal push/pull going on on several levels and policies….
Republicans are recalibrating their messaging on abortion after Democrats successfully used the issue to galvanize their base and win over swing voters in 2022.
While the GOP largely focused on the three-pronged message of combatting rising inflation, crime, and the flow of migrants over the southern border, exit polls showed that abortion was a top priority for voters at the ballot box.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has attributed some of the party’s losses to candidates ignoring the issue.
“It was probably a bigger factor than a lot of people thought,” McDaniel said in an interview earlier this month with radio talk show host John Catsimatidis. “We’ve got to get conversant on that.”
“We can’t just do an ostrich method and pretend that it doesn’t exist when Democrats are spending $30 million on that message.”
According to exit polling, 27 percent of voters said that abortion was the most important issue in deciding their vote, coming in only behind inflation at 31 percent.
The issue played a key role in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, where Sen.-elect John Fetterman (D) strongly elevated the issue, particularly in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Thirty-six percent of voters in that state said abortion was their top issue, while 29 percent said inflation.
Abortion access proponents were also victorious on a number of ballot measures, with voters in California, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont voting in favor of abortion rights…..
This seems a little sketchy.
I haven’t seen any evidence that Republicans are “rethinking “ their abortion stances .
Mere verbal philosophizing by some unimportant Republican functionaries does not a change in policy make.
Let’s see a previous hardline Republican abortion foe come out for allowing first term abortions.Until one sees that or something similar?This “rethinking” remains nothing more than some useless talk.
I might add The Hill is notorious for “seeing” all sorts of political matters that upon closer examination is nothing more than some writer concocting a “story” with very little actual evidence to back it up other than a few quotes from people who are of marginal importance to the topic at hand.
In fact some of the GOPer’s HAVE acknowledged that abortion has to be addressed as the piece linked points out….
McDaniel also admitted the party has an issue in some places with it…..
No evidence?
She heads the RMC……
Big deal!
She’s nothing but a toad with no influence whatsoever.How many “votes” dies this functionary have?
Name me one prominent Republican officeholder ,on the national level ,who has,in any way, “moderated” their stance on abortion as a result of the recent election?
BUT!?
She’s Trump’s pick!
Gee I bet there a lot of Republican officeholders are just getting ready to change their position on abortion because of some innocuous remark by Ronna McDaniel!
How damn dumb!
It’s about location…..,,
Sure in certain places U can be NO ABORTION PERIOD
BUT
As we saw……
And the piece points out
Abortion AND RIGHTS did NOT go away….
And it can KEEP COSTING GOPer’s votes ….