The guy who put together a court to throw out women’s ‘Rights’ by the US Supreme Court has put HIMSELF in an interesting place in his new home state of Florida……..
MOVE OVER, MARGARET SANGER. The new face of abortion rights in Florida is . . . Donald Trump?
One of the groups backing Florida’s abortion-rights initiative is trying to attract Trump voters with mailers and a soon-to-be-released digital ad that highlights the former president’s opposition to the state’s existing six-week abortion ban.
“I think the six-week ban is too short,” Trump told NBC News in August when he was asked about the ballot initiative, called Amendment 4, which would allow abortion before fetal viability. “There has to be more time . . . I want more weeks.”
Those Trump comments, along with other remarks he made in opposition to the ban last year, are splashed in large, white type on the 250,000 black mailers sent earlier this month by the Florida Women’s Freedom Coalition to Republican and conservative-leaning independent voters.
But the flyers don’t tell the whole story.
Though Trump constantly trashed Florida’s six-week abortion ban for more than a year, he ultimately said he would vote against the initiative to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution. Absent the passage of Amendment 4, the state’s six-week ban remains in place.
Trump made his opposition to Amendment 4 clear after social conservatives criticized his remarks in August, saying that they were undermining their campaign to defeat the initiative. But the decision to use Trump’s likeness and words in favor of the initiative illustrates the degree to which the ex-president’s muddled messaging on abortion could make him palatable to people on both sides of the issue.
It also underscores how eager the Amendment 4 advocates are to attract Republican support….
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Abortion-rights advocates, who are overwhelmingly Democratic, acknowledged that the coalition’s use of Trump’s likeness puts them in an awkward spot because they’re otherwise opposed to his candidacy and believe he’s heavily to blame for abortion restrictions like the one in Florida. But it’s hard to get to 60 percent support in Florida without Trump voters.
“This isn’t the messaging we would want because it’s Trump,” said one top Democratic official who spoke on condition of anonymity. “But if it takes using a Trump to beat a DeSantis and preserve the right to choose, then we’ve gotta face the facts that this is what it takes.”…
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