Trump Alienates His Base With Flip Flopping On Reproductive Rights
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🗓️ 6 September 2024
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Summary
Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign kicked off a weeks-long reproductive freedom bus tour this week, with a 50-stop route that runs through some of the biggest swing states in the upcoming election. It's an issue that plays to Harris' strengths — and former President Donald Trump's biggest weaknesses. While Trump loves to take credit for appointing the Supreme Court justices that ultimately helped overturn Roe v. Wade, he's spent the years since trying to moderate his stance on abortion and reproductive healthcare, angering members of his socially conservative base in the process. Shefali Luthra, who covers reproductive care for The 19th, explains how Trump's muddled stance has angered both sides of the abortion debate.
In Arizona, Republican Vice Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance got an icy reaction when he told a crowd Thursday, "It's very simple, we lost Arizona" in 2020. Election denialism has become a feature of the Republican Party since Trump became its leader, trickling down through the ranks of many state GOP parties, including Arizona's. Jane Coaston, former politics reporter for Vox, a contributor to The New York Times opinion section — and WAD's newest host — examines how Arizona politics went from the party of John McCain to the epicenter of election denialism.
And in headlines: Georgia police arrested and charged the father of the suspect in Wednesday's fatal shooting at Apalachee High School, Trump pleaded not guilty to the revised criminal charges in his election interference case, and President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to nine charges related to federal tax evasion and fraud.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, September 6th. I'm Trayvon Anderson. |
| 0:04.2 | And I'm Priyanka Aribindi and this is what a day, the show where we're trying to have a normal reaction |
| 0:09.3 | to the news that the FBI has raided the homes of not one, not two, but three of the top aides to New York |
| 0:15.9 | City Mayor Eric Adams. |
| 0:17.7 | He said he was bringing swagger back to New York City and I guess that means different things to different people. |
| 0:24.3 | I've never heard a good headline about this man and today that did not change. |
| 0:28.8 | On today's show, the father of the Appalachian School shooter has been arrested and charged. |
| 0:36.7 | Plus, today early voting is scheduled to start in North Carolina, and former presidential |
| 0:41.9 | hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is still on the ballot. |
| 0:45.6 | But first, this week Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign kicked off a weeks-long |
| 0:50.6 | reproductive freedom bus tour. The tour is meant to highlight a major |
| 0:54.2 | issue in this election, one that the Harris campaign hopes will motivate voters |
| 0:58.6 | especially suburban women to turn out for them. The bus tour is scheduled to make 50 stops on a route all |
| 1:04.7 | throughout battleground states in the coming weeks, and in a brilliant bit of trolling, it kicked |
| 1:09.2 | off in what is essentially former President Donald Trump's backyard, West Palm Beach, Florida. |
| 1:14.6 | And while Florida hasn't been a swing state for a while now, Democrats hope they can |
| 1:19.7 | put it back in play this year. |
| 1:22.4 | That's because it's one of 10 states where reproductive rights will be directly on the ballot |
| 1:26.9 | this November. In Florida there's a ballot initiative to amend the state |
| 1:31.2 | Constitution to protect the right to an abortion up to |
| 1:34.9 | fetal viability the same right that existed under Roe versus Wade. If it passes |
| 1:40.4 | it would also overturn the state's existing law that bans abortions |
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