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Jason A Clark's avatar

His stance makes little sense. One of the reasons he enjoys such strong support among Christian conservatives is because of what he was able to accomplish in regards to abortion in his first term. To now take an opposite opinion (yes, yes, I know the argument that he wants to leave it up to the states) is basically a slap in the face to these supporters.

And, like I said, it makes little sense. He will not win over one single voter with his current pandering. No one who supports abortion or IVF is going to vote for him because he is backtracking. On the other hand, he could very well lose many supporters and many votes because of it. Whoever is telling him to do this is an idiot. Hopefully, it's not his idea...

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Andrea M's avatar

I fear that, if Trump loses, it will all be because of this (and we will not be able to say it was not well-deserved). No one wants to elect a candidate with an unsure stance. Trump seems to want to keep his 2016 base and seems to want his campaign to be the same as it was then, but he is betraying his original voters in order to win. The very reason why Donald Trump was elected in the first place was because he did not seem to care about what other Republicans did. And I'm not just saying this about his stance on abortion (because his "leave it to the state" argument existed even before 2016), it's about everything. Things are different. I think if Trump wins this year, it will be because of everything the present administration has done to him during the past 4 years, not because his campaign was great.

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