President Biden’s reelection campaign said Tuesday that former President Trump’s second term will be “straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Criticism of the former president comes from the following points of view. Politico report It details how Trump’s allies are trying to inject “Christian nationalist ideas” into a potential second term.
“This is something straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale: a national abortion ban, an attack on same-sex marriage, restrictions on contraception, all by Team Trump and those who appear to be the architects of his second-term policies. This is a frightening reality that is being openly discussed,” said Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for the Biden campaign.
The Biden campaign outlined that President Trump had said he would become a one-day dictator at the start of his new administration, and pointed to a Rolling Stone report that said the former president would accept recommendations from the conservative Heritage Foundation during his second term. .
“Every day, Donald Trump openly supports policies that limit Americans’ freedoms, divide our country, and attack our rights. That’s what he will do as president. We are not who we are,” Hitt said. “As they have in election after election, Americans will reject Donald Trump and his outrageous extremism this November.”
The campaign also pointed out that: New York Times coverage The newspaper said Trump told advisers and allies that he supported a 16-week ban on abortions, a story the Trump campaign pushed back but did not contradict.
President Trump has repeatedly dodged questions over the past year about whether he would sign a national abortion ban if re-elected, but Democrats see this new evidence as evidence that Trump would sign a national abortion ban if he wins. The report was used.
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