Trump took credit for appointing most of the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 but sought to insulate his campaign and the Republican Party from the resulting political fallout.
The former and now future president largely staked out a federalist position, saying abortion policy should be formulated by the states. The 48-year-old anti-abortion plank in the Republican platform was modified to drop support for the Human Life Amendment or other federal legislation prohibiting abortions. Trump denied supporting what Democrats described as a “national abortion ban,” sometimes going so far as to say that he would veto one if it were sent to his desk.
At the same time, Trump positioned himself to the right of Vice President Kamala Harris on abortion. He hit the Democrats hard on late-term abortions and challenged Harris on whether she would back…
