The question in my mind is how his statement about punishing women who have abortions have hurt his numbers. Even those generally opposed to abortion probably did a double take, particularly women.
That statement hurt him a lot.
His trumpers were actually defending it, but no one else in the world thought it was an okay thing to say.
He walked it back the next day, but the damage was done.
It revealed his shallow mindset. He doesn’t have core principles to rely on so he says the first thing that comes into his mind. I think he was trying to show just how anti-abortion he is now after embracing abortion for so many years.
But he wasn’t smart enough to pull it off.