GOP Presidential Hopefuls Are Trying To Thread The Needle On Abortion
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
That leaves 2024 presidential hopefuls attempting a balancing act: how to appeal to primary base voters that oppose abortion rights, without alienating the moderate, independent and swing voters who support them.
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| 1:14.4 | cover politics. And today on the pot how Republican presidential candidates are |
| 1:19.2 | trying to thread the needle on one of the biggest and thorniest issues in the primary race, abortion |
| 1:25.6 | has been a driving force motivating Republican base voters for decades, but since the Supreme |
| 1:30.0 | Court decision overturning Roe versus Wade, Democrats, |
| 1:33.2 | independence, and swing voters |
| 1:34.8 | have been turning out an election after election |
| 1:37.1 | to preserve abortion rights. |
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