With lower than two months till Election Day, former President Donald Trump is making a play for ladies voters by suggesting that reproductive rights can be a subject of the previous if he’s elected to a different time period.
In an all-caps publish on his Truth Social platform on Friday, Sept. 20, he instructed girls that their present lives are “depressing” and vaguely promised to assist them flourish, together with by getting abortion off folks’s minds.
“Ladies are poorer than they had been 4 years in the past, are much less wholesome than they had been 4 years in the past, are much less protected on the streets than they had been 4 years in the past, are extra depressed and sad than they had been 4 years in the past, and are much less optimistic and assured sooner or later than they had been 4 years in the past!” Trump’s publish started.
He continued, “I’ll repair all of that, and quick, and in the end this nationwide nightmare can be over. Ladies can be pleased, wholesome, assured and free! You’ll now not be fascinated by abortion, as a result of it’s now the place it at all times needed to be, with the States, and a vote of the folks.”
The previous president then repeated a false declare that Democrats assist the “execution of a child after start.”
Trump held a marketing campaign rally within the swing state of North Carolina someday after his Fact Social publish, the place he shared the identical message about girls’s livelihood.
“I’ll shield girls at a stage by no means seen earlier than. They may lastly be wholesome, hopeful, protected and safe,” Trump mentioned on the rally. “Their lives can be pleased, lovely, and their lives can be nice once more. So girls, we love you. We’re going to maintain you.”
MSNBC reviews {that a} current poll from NBC News reveals Trump trailing Vice President Kamala Harris by 21 factors with girls voters — which is worse than his numbers in 2016 (12 factors behind) and 2020 (15 factors behind).
Throughout their first (and likely only) presidential debate on Sept. 10, Trump and Harris went head-to-head on the subject of abortion, with the vice chairman vowing to reinstate Roe v. Wade whereas Trump celebrated the U.S. Supreme Courtroom for overturning it.
“One doesn’t need to abandon their religion or deeply held beliefs to consider the federal government and Donald Trump definitely shouldn’t be telling girls what to do with their physique,” Harris mentioned.
Hours earlier than Trump tried to woo feminine voters on Fact Social, Harris additionally accused her opponent of being the person behind the reproductive rights “disaster.”
Addressing the influence of state abortion bans throughout an Atlanta rally, Harris mentioned, “It is taking place day-after-day in our nation: an untold variety of folks struggling, girls, who’re additionally being made to really feel as if they did one thing mistaken.”
“So to these girls, to these households, I say on behalf of what I consider all of us say: We see you, and you aren’t alone, and we’re all right here standing with you,” she continued.
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Harris then mentioned that the overturning of Roe v. Wade sparked a “healthcare disaster,” including, “And Donald Trump is the architect of this disaster.”