Democrats Focus on Vance’s Abortion Stance After Trump Spends Months Trying To Put the Issue Behind Him
The senator supported a national abortion ban that had no exceptions for rape or incest.

MILWAUKEE — President Trump has spent months trying to put the issue of abortion behind him, saying it belongs to the states and the federal government has no say. In choosing Senator Vance as his running mate, though, all of that work may have been for nothing. Mr. Vance’s views on abortion were quickly seized on by Democrats.
Since the Dobbs decision and the ensuing midterms disaster for Republicans in 2022, Trump has repeatedly tried to distance himself from his anti-abortion rights position and his role — by appointing three Supreme Court justices — in overturning Roe v. Wade.
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