“[For] 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it,” Trump said. “And I’m proud to have done it.”
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But Trump criticized the anti-abortion movement after the Dobbs decision for explicitly political reasons. He saw the push for total abortion bans as contributing to Republicans’ poor showings in the 2022 midterm elections.
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“You have to win elections,” Trump said. “Otherwise you’re going to be back where you were, and you can’t let that ever happen again.”
Abortion rights will again be a major issue in the 2024 election, with the public largely opposed to the demise of Roe v. Wade. A near record 55% of Americans reported that they support universal abortion rights, according to a Wall Street Journal-NORC poll in November.
