Blog de Dunlap: Donald Trump can’t hide from this

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Donald Trump can’t hide from this

Danielle, I want to make this abundantly clear: There is no acceptable middle road or compromise when it comes to abortion rights.

The vast majority of Americans agree that the government shouldn't interfere with people's personal decisions on abortion. The GOP and anti-abortion extremists know this, so they worked for years to force their unpopular agenda through the courts — and away from the ballot box.

But now that they've gotten their wish and overturned Roe v. Wade, voters have been fighting back. In election after election ever since — in Kansas, in Michigan, in Ohio, and in Virginia — they keep reminding anti-abortion extremists how out of touch they really are.

Now the GOP can try to soften and message test their anti-abortion stances all they want ahead of the 2024 election, but the fact is that voters support abortion access. Period. And their current frontrunner for president, Donald Trump, can't hide from his extreme anti-abortion record:

He appointed anti-choice Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade
He's boasted about being the president who "got rid of Roe v. Wade"
He supports a national ban
He said there has to be "some form of punishment" for women who get abortions

I won't stop calling out the GOP's extremism and fighting for the right to an abortion nationwide. That means electing pro-abortion Democrats and ending the filibuster so we can codify Roe v. Wade into federal law. That means reversing right-wing takeover of our Supreme Court by working to expand and rebalance it. And that means supporting local candidates and ballot measures that will defend abortion rights at the state level.

If you're with me, please pitch in $100 so we can keep growing our pro-abortion movement ahead of the 2024 election. We've got to campaign against MAGA Republicans' out-of-touch extremism in order to prevent their plans for a national ban.