The Democratic National Committee (DNC) placed billboards targeting former President Trump’s stance on abortion in North Carolina on Saturday ahead of Trump’s rally in Wilmington.
Sixteen billboards in both English and Spanish were posted in Charlotte and Wilmington to promote the Tar Heel State’s 12-week abortion ban, which Republican lawmakers signed over a veto by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. He confides in President Trump that he supports him. According to the committee, this is the most billboards the DNC has put up this election cycle to challenge President Trump’s influence in states.
“Donald Trump is responsible for the attacks on reproductive rights we are seeing in North Carolina and across the country,” DNC spokeswoman Jackie Bush said in a statement shared with The Hill. “His anti-freedom policies are already endangering the lives of women in North Carolina, but Trump and his cronies will not stop until every woman in America lives under an extreme national abortion ban.” .
“That’s why women in North Carolina and across the country will reject President Trump’s extreme ban at the polls this November and send President Joe Biden back to the White House,” Bush wrote.
The ad campaign comes weeks after President Trump declined to take a position on a potential federal ban on abortion, saying the fate of the procedure should be left to each state.in about 4 minutes Video posted on He told Truth Social that he was proud of ending Roe v. Wade, but did not support any federal abortion legislation that some conservative groups had pushed against him.
He later argued that the nationwide ban was “unnecessary” because the U.S. Supreme Court had ended federal access to abortion.
“We don’t need it anymore, because we threw out Roe v. Wade and did something that no one thought was possible,” Trump said. “We gave it back to the states. And the states are working very admirably, being conservative in some cases, not being conservative in others. But they’re working and they’re working as expected. It is functioning.”
The former president also said he would not sign a federal ban on the process if he is re-elected and passed by Congress in November.
Currently, access to abortion is a patchwork of state-by-state laws that are constantly changing as new restrictions take effect. Many states are also pushing to put abortion on the ballot, and measures aimed at guaranteeing abortion access rights will boost turnout and help candidates in the most competitive races. There are growing hopes among Democrats that this will be possible.
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