The ex-President’s ‘If He Wins’ Time appearance has comments that Democrats have jumped ALL over….
The Biden campaign is mounting a concerted push to attack former President Donald J. Trump over statements he made to Time magazine in a wide-ranging interview published Tuesday morning, particularly on abortion.
In the interview, Mr. Trump refused to commit to vetoing a national abortion ban and said he would allow states to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violated abortion restrictions.
“This is reprehensible,” President Biden wrote on X. “Donald Trump doesn’t trust women. I do.”
Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Mr. Biden’s campaign manager, said in a statement that Mr. Trump would “sign a national abortion ban, allow women who have an abortion to be prosecuted and punished, allow the government to invade women’s privacy to monitor their pregnancies and put I.V.F. and contraception in jeopardy nationwide.”
Abortion has become a winning issue for Democrats, and Mr. Biden has argued that Mr. Trump and Republicans will continue to erode abortion rights. He and Vice President Kamala Harris have campaigned heavily on the issue in battleground states, and Democrats hope that state ballot initiatives to protect abortion rights will help their candidates for president, Congress and state offices. Their messaging has sought to pin state abortion bans directly on Mr. Trump, whose appointees to the Supreme Court helped overturn Roe v. Wade….
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The former president also told Time that he would deploy the U.S. military to detain and deport migrants, and did not dismiss the possibility of political violence should he lose the election.
Democrats highlighted some of those statements as well.
“Donald Trump’s repeated threats of political violence are as horrifying and dangerous as they are un-American,” said Alex Floyd, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee. “Trump is hellbent on threatening our democracy, win or lose.”
Hillary Clinton urged her followers on X to read about Mr. Trump’s plans for a second term and “take them seriously.”….
More the Trump Time magazine interview…
…Among the many policies that Trump discussed and sometimes dodged were the termination of Roe v. Wade (of which he is extraordinarily proud), a national abortion ban (which he repeatedly refused to say he would veto), and pardoning Jan. 6 rioters (he would “absolutely” consider pardoning them all).
In May 2023, Navigator polled the idea of Trump pardoning most of the Jan. 6 rioters, which he had recently said he would do at the time.
Among all voters, 51% said it “raises major doubts” about him leading the Republican Party, while 35% said it did not raise doubts, and 15% said it raised minor doubts. Here is a breakdown along party lines:
Democrats: 80% have major doubts and 11% have no doubts
Independents: 45% have major doubts and 34% have no doubts
Republicans: 19% have major doubts and 62% have no doubts
In the Time interview, Cortellessa pressed Trump on whether he would veto a national abortion ban, and Trump declined to commit one way or the other.
Navigator polled support for a federal abortion ban in January. It was not popular, with 66% opposed to it and a meager 27% in support. Even Republican voters were split on the matter. Here’s the partisan breakdown…
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