Quick Take: Trump Nails it on Abortion
We get results! Trump's speech on abortion strikes precisely the right chord.
We get results!!! It appears as if somebody handed President Trump a copy of my post on Answering Democrats on Abortion. Now we just need to get the rest of the GOP on board.
For those of you who missed it, it’s very simple and Trump did an admirable job of laying out the key points:
We support the Dobbs decision, which sent the issue back to the states and the people to decide.
We do NOT support any federal interference in this process - for or against. That means we would NOT support a federal law restricting abortion or any other effort to apply a one-size-fits-all solution on all the states. This would be impossible to design and just as bad as Roe. Just ask Nancy Pelosi how that worked when she had the gavel.
As a federal candidate, you do not have a dog in the fight. Your opinion matters the same as every other citizen in your home state. Which means, as a federal candidate, your opinion is irrelevant. Learn how to say that succinctly.
Roe was the law of the land for two generations. Two generations of Americans did not have the chance to decide because the Burger court removed the issue from the democratic process. As such, the Dobbs decision will require generations to personally weigh the issue and decide for themselves how abortion will be treated in their state.
Note to the RNC and those raising funds for federal candidates: Stop talking about it. Stop sending “push polls” to solicit donations on the subject. Stop using abortion as a metric for measuring a candidate’s fitness. Amend that plank in The Platform to reflect the four bullets above.
Now, go on the attack.
Ask Democrats why they don’t support the law of the land like they did to Republicans for 50 years.
Ask Democrats why democracy itself cannot be trusted to resolve this issue among the states and the people.
Ask Democrats to explain why, in the 50 years since Roe, during which they frequently owned all three branches of government, even with super-majorities, they couldn’t pass a federal one-size-fits-all law on abortion - and yet they are promising to do just that now in a post-Dobbs nation.