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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
To see what a second Trump administration would mean for reproductive rights, look to the mogul’s record and alliances.
Donald Trump has an abortion problem.
The presumptive GOP nominee boasts an advantage over President Joe Biden on most of today’s most salient issues. In a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll, voters said that they trusted Trump over the president on the economy, inflation, crime, and immigration. Biden, meanwhile, enjoyed a double-digit advantage on only one issue: by 47 points to 35 points, voters said they trusted the president over Trump to handle abortion policy.
It is not hard to see why.
Trump’s presidency left relatively few lasting marks on American public policy. But as he has repeatedly boasted since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, it was his judicial appointments that enabled the overturning of Roe v. Wade — and thus, the avalanche of abortion restrictions that followed its demise.
Except when he talks about wanting to be a dictator, that’s no lie. Of course the “one day” piece totally is.