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Donald J. Trump, once a big-city Democrat, has come out as a social moderate, as he always has.
During a Fox News “town hall” that aired Wednesday morning, Trump spoke with Harris Faulkner and a group of friendly female voters in Georgia, seeking to strengthen his appeal to key demographics.
A recent Fox News poll shows Kamala Harris leading Trump by 10 points among women.
Sure, he's been cast by the left as a Handmaiden villain, but his position on abortion – much to the chagrin of the pro-life wing of the Republican Party – is nuanced.
The 45th president appointed three Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, which sent abortion issues back to the states, but said some states' abortion bans were “too strict.” And he said he supports exceptions for “rape, incest, and the life of the mother.”
In his hyperbolic Trumpian language, he declared unequivocal support for IVF, calling himself the “father of IVF.”
Trump ignores easy persona — remember, he remade the Republican Party in his own image (for better or worse).
And it was important to him to at least answer these questions from real women. The Republican Party has struggled to communicate its message to a post-Roe world, allowing the left to relentlessly pursue women voters with fear-mongering messages about reproductive rights, often by distorting the truth. There is.
Why else would Tim Walz lie about himself and his wife doing IVF?
City Hall also addressed other topics, including border security, the economy and child care costs. Because women aren't just single-issue voters who eat pro-abortion slogans for breakfast.
We are concerned about housing costs and high food costs. We worry that there are too many unvetted illegal immigrants in this country, sucking up government resources, security, and security. (ABC host Martha Raddatz) Although I'm tired of this concern). We worry that the left is allowing biological males into the feminine realm.
One woman asked President Trump what he would do to keep transgender athletes out of women's sports.
He said, “Just ban it.” This is a great slogan, but it doesn't translate into actionable action.
But it would be refreshing for candidates to at least acknowledge that biological males don't participate in women's sports.
Many on the left simply don't have the presence of mind to take this obvious position and to proclaim out loud a truth that probably would have been pretty commonplace eight years ago.
It is unknown whether any of these resonate outside the MAGA echo chamber. But at least it all came straight from his mouth and not through some diabolical messaging machine.
