Trump seeks third way on abortion
Story by W. James Antle III When Florida passed a six-week abortion ban, former President Donald Trump called it a “terrible mistake.”
Now the matter is headed to the ballot in November and is giving Democrats their first rays of hope in Florida since Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) trounced former Gov. Charlie Crist in 2022.
At the time Trump made his abortion remarks, DeSantis was his main opponent. Now it is President Joe Biden, who is running on restoring Roe v. Wade, which was overturned by Trump’s three appointees to the Supreme Court plus two other conservatives named by Republican presidents.
Trump was always going to have to switch from running to DeSantis’s left to Biden’s right on abortion. The former president has at times been more explicit in describing abortion as killing than any Republican nominee since Ronald Reagan, including in a 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton.
This year Trump may need to take a page out of Clinton’s husband’s playbook: triangulation. It was the strategy Bill Clinton employed when he sought a second term as president in 1996. The 42nd president ran to the right of congressional Democrats, supporting welfare reform and deficit reduction, and to the left of his Republican opponent Bob Dole, promising to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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