The evening was sweet for Donald Trump. Washington may well represent the heart of this “Deep State” fantasized, supposedly on his heels, the former president had traveled to the capital on September 15 to attend the annual evening of an influential evangelical organization, the Family Research Council. An electorate very courted on the right in the run-up to the primaries, which gave him a triumphant welcome. With one reservation: an awkward silence during a passage of his speech, the one devoted to abortion.
An interminable, improvised passage, often nebulous and contradictory, but whose general tone was a questioning of the most repressive approach to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) by elected officials and by the fervent religious base of the Republican Party . Since the Supreme Court removed the right to abortion from American women in June 2022, referring the question to each state, this subject has been a powerful mobilizing factor among Democrats. In every local referendum, voters have rejected extremist measures, including in conservative states like Kansas and Kentucky.
During the mid-term elections in November 2022, the disappointing result of the Republicans, despite a narrow majority obtained in the House of Representatives, was due in part to the significant participation of young people and women, worried about the ongoing reactionary offensive . Since then, Democrats have continued to achieve very good electoral results locally.
“Very delicate” problem
“Like President Ronald Reagan before me, I support the three exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother”, said Donald Trump, thus following a traditional lineage. Welcoming the end of the Roe vs. Wade ruling (1973), thanks to the three conservative judges he had promoted to the Supreme Court, the former president also considered that this problem was “very delicate”. “Many politicians who are pro-life don’t know how to discuss this topic that is so important to the people in this room and so important to millions and millions of people in our country, added Donald Trump. And if they don’t know how to talk about it properly, they won’t win. »
Does he support the idea of a federal law setting a maximum period of twelve or fifteen weeks for abortion? Mr. Trump deliberately maintains confusion on this point. ” But nowhe said, addressing the audience, suddenly tense, you have this enormous power to negotiate something, and something will be negotiated, because we need to bring our country together on this issue. » It is difficult to advocate a compromise in front of activists for whom abortion is an absolute ideological battle.
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