From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Wednesday, May 15th.

Erin Toherty is with us, political reporter for Axios covering breaking news and the 2024

presidential campaign.

Erin, thanks for coming on. Welcome to WNYC. It's great to be here. Thank you so much for having me.

And we'll go on both the Democratic and the Republican tracks with the Republican platform announced

this week ahead of the Republican Convention, which begins on Monday, and the Democrats still

assessing President Biden, some out loud, some only in private, to decide whether they think

he's still the best to be Trump. There's some breaking news on that that I know you reported on.

But, Aaron, you wrote an article about the abortion language in the new Republican platform,

framing it as the party adopts

Trump's language on abortion. But his language on abortion has been all over the place over

time. Which version of Trump on abortion is in the platform? Yeah. So that kind of is what actually

made itself into the platform. And basically, there was only

one mention of abortion in the entire platform that was ruled out earlier this week and approved

by the committee for the Republican National Convention tasked with approving the platform. So it's a dramatic

change in previous platforms as recently as 2020. the language in the platform had an explicit,

you know, had language that explicitly endorsed a national ban on abortion, whereas this language

that was ruled out on Monday, it says sort of like former President Trump stance that abortion

should be left up to the states, and it does not indicate support for a national abortion ban.

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