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The Brian Lehrer Show

Abortion on the Ballot

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Unpacking Florida's ballot measure to protect and expand abortion rights—and why former President Donald Trump has publicly said he'd vote against it.

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

0:12.8

Good morning again, everyone.

0:14.4

So Donald Trump, a Florida voter, says he will vote to uphold the six-week abortion ban in the state.

0:21.9

He said that last Friday one day after he said he to uphold the six-week abortion ban in the state. He said that last Friday,

0:28.2

one day after he said he's against the ban. Here's Trump last Thursday when asked by NBC News about the six-week ban versus a Florida abortion rights referendum that'll be on the ballot in November.

0:36.2

I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.

0:39.2

So that wasn't quite an endorsement of the abortion rights referendum, right?

0:44.3

But anti-abortion rights groups freaked out that he said he'd be voting that they need more

0:49.8

than six weeks.

0:50.9

And the very next day asked if he would vote for the abortion rights measure again.

0:56.3

Trump said this.

0:57.6

So I'll be voting no.

0:59.8

Yeah.

1:00.5

So what just happened here in the context of the presidential race, where abortion rights

1:05.0

likely to drive so many voters to the polls to vote yes, is it time to ask what was previously an unthinkable political

1:13.8

question. Could Florida, after so many years as a solidly red state, be back in play as a swing

1:20.0

state in this presidential election? Let's take a closer look at the Florida referendum and the

1:25.8

election year politics of the Sunshine State

1:28.3

overall now with Grace Panetta, political reporter for the 19th, the news site named after the

1:34.3

19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote in this country

1:39.2

in 1920, and Kimberly Leonard, Politico politics reporter in Florida and author of their Florida playbook

1:48.7

newsletter.

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