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Donald Trump’s abortion statement angers conservatives and gives the Biden campaign a new target

Associated Press
Trump, Trump Administration
April 9, 2024

Trump has long tried to steer clear from supporting national restrictions that could be a political disaster for Republicans struggling to win back key groups — especially suburban women — who turned their backs on the GOP in recent years.

Donald Trump declines to endorse a national abortion ban and says it should be left to the states

Associated Press
Trump, Trump Administration
April 8, 2024

Trump again took credit for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to end Roe v. Wade, saying that he was ‘proudly the person responsible for the ending’ of the constitutional right to an abortion and thanking the conservative justices who overturned it by name.