Senator JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, made the campaign’s strongest statement yet on the hot button issue of abortion.
During a conversation with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Vance was asked about conservative lawmakers who continue to call for Trump to sign a national abortion ban.
Vance said Trump’s position remains that the issue should be handled by each state individually, which was accomplished with the SCTOUS’ repeal of Roe v. Wade.
“If California wants to have a different abortion policy from Ohio,” Vance said, “then Ohio has to respect California, and California has to respect Ohio. Donald Trump’s view is that we want the individual states and their individual cultures and their unique political sensibilities to make these decisions, because we don’t want to have a nonstop federal conflict over this issue.”
He also said Trump has “explicitly” said he would veto a ban.
“Donald Trump has been as clear about that as possible. I think it’s important to step back and say, ‘What does Donald Trump actually said on the abortion question, and how is it different from what Kamala Harris and the Democrats have said?’ Donald Trump wants to end this culture war over this particular topic.”
“If you’re not supporting it as the president of the United States, you fundamentally have to veto it,” Vance said.
Democrats spent much of their recent convention in Chicago creating hypothetical scenarios about Trump’s agenda.
“Children who have survived sexual assault, potentially being forced to carry a pregnancy to term. This is what’s happening in our country because of Donald Trump. And understand, he is not done. As a part of his agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress,” Vice President Harris said.
They deliberately lie, because they know their constituency will fall for it. Plus, it makes good, scary copy, and keeps conservatives busy trying to refute the claims.