Protecting Abortion, Electing Trump
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump’s position on abortion was opaque enough that even states that passed protections for abortion rights still voted for him by a large margin. But even if a national abortion ban—something JD Vance has spoken in favor of—is probably untenable politically, how else could the incoming administration restrict access to abortion across the country?
Guest: Caroline Kitchener, national reporter covering abortion for the Washington Post.
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| 1:04.4 | Since last week's election, there's been a whole lot of Monday morning quarterbacking about what exactly went wrong for the Democrats. |
| 1:16.8 | Did they fail to communicate the stakes of this election? |
| 1:20.8 | Were they to flip about the economy? |
| 1:24.1 | But I wanted to talk to Caroline Kitchener, who covers abortion for the Washington Post, |
| 1:29.5 | because she didn't wait to understand how well the Dems were communicating |
| 1:33.4 | when it came to one of their signature issues. |
| 1:37.1 | Well, going into the election, I really wanted to know, like, is abortion going to be enough to sway people? |
| 1:42.8 | Is abortion actually going to be enough to sway people? Is abortion actually going to be enough |
| 1:44.6 | to change somebody's mind on the presidential race? I actually started by looking for people |
| 1:51.4 | that were really torn, you know, more independent or Republican-leaning voters who cared about |
| 1:57.9 | abortion rights and because of abortion were really torn. |
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