Posted on 06/25/2022 8:31:59 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The end of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling was the culmination of decades of work by Republicans and social conservatives — one that came to pass only after a former Democrat from New York who had once supported abortion rights helped muscle through three Supreme Court justices.
Publicly, former President Donald J. Trump heralded the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday ending federal abortion protections as a victory. Yet, as he faces possible prosecution over his efforts to subvert the 2020 election and prepares for a likely 2024 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump has privately told friends and advisers the ruling will be “bad for Republicans.”
When a draft copy of the decision leaked in May, Mr. Trump began telling friends and advisers that it would anger suburban women, a group who helped tilt the 2020 race to President Biden, and would lead to a backlash against Republicans in the November midterm elections.
In other conversations, Mr. Trump has told people that measures like the Texas state law banning most abortions after six weeks and allowing citizens to file lawsuits against people who enable abortions are “so stupid,” according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions. The Supreme Court let the measure stand in December 2021.
For the first hours after the decision was made public on Friday, Mr. Trump was muted in response, a striking contrast to the conservatives who worked in his administration, including former Vice President Mike Pence. Mr. Pence issued a statement saying, “Life won,” as he called for abortion opponents to keep fighting “in every state in the land.”
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April poll you can probably toss those results
>> Female voters are not happy about ending Roe vs Wade and they’ll vote for the blue team in November. Just my .02
Really? You know the mindset of female voters?
You seem to have concerns about the overturning of Roe v Wade.
That’s a lot of manure to shovel onto the pages of a flimsy failing has been of a newspaper.
I always believe anti-Trump stories from the NYT with multiple authors and unnamed sources. (/sarcasm) This story rates about a zero on the credibility scale.
laughable BS as usual from the Racist NY Times.
You’re giving the story too much credit
Let me guess.
Anonymous sources told the NY Slimes.
Yeah, I'm not even going to pretend to predict how this will turn out for Republican gubernatorial candidates running tight races in swing states, especially after many of them will feel pressured to make promises to enact extremely restrictive statewide abortion bans.
Not all female voters support abortion, and many of the super liberal ones will be in blue states anyway that matter less. That said, it’ll almost certainly help lift donations and some GOTV efforts (on both sides IMO).
For the record, I was not one of these people.
I tend to believe that mainstream political opinions and those expressed here on Free Republic are often quite different.
Dykes and skanks? Not so much.
NY Times flops just the Democrat three ring circus January 6th, 2022 gig has flopped 100%....”Very few TV Viewers” TV Media CEOS look and are 100% Butt Wipes!!! They are not too bright in the brains department!!!
Hey, folks, catch Trump tonight in Illinois “Save America” Rally. Newsmax and Right Side Broadcasting Network are covering this great event....from start to finish!!!
Thanks.....POTUS, Donald John Trump....you chose Lord, God , Almighty. and Life for the unborn. America & God both bless you...sir!!!
I doubt it’s an issue in a week. But it is keeping Ukraine’s biggest defeats in the war off of the front pages, which is probably good as otherwise The Administration would notice what’s going on there and probably get directly involved.
I doubt the authors have any evidence of President Trumps private conversation just simple minded projection
There 384,000 subscrbers to Pravda on the Hudson.
There are 2.834 million Wall Street Journal paper subscribers and nearly 2 million digital subscribers. They get the generally Conservative opinion page of the WSJ.
All of us (all sides of the political spectrum) tend to gravitate to those sources of news and discussion that cause us the least angst. That angst exists because the stakes are so high and the political divisions are so broad.
That said, how are you defining 'mainstream political opinions'? Also, should every effort and every position be determined on the basis of its political costs - or do we follow our principles for those things that are most important to us?
Any woman who votes for a democrat because of this decision....let’s face it, she wasn’t going to vote for a Republican anyway.
So... being a New Yorker makes one pro-abortion? That's right out of the Democrat propaganda playbook.
Apparently Melania, who is very pro-life, opened Trump's eyes.
Poll after poll has consistently shown over the years that a majority of Americans support some form of legal abortion but also support restrictions, whether these be parental notification laws or trimester limits.
These opinions are generally not shared on this forum. They are also not shared on the liberal forums where abortion should be offered any time for any reason, a position that is equally out of step with mainstream political opinions.
Winning elections often requires compromise. Holding strongly to principals often means losing. Is it better to compromise your principals and win or hold on to them and lose? In other words, is it better to support the candidate that represents 50% of your views and could win or the candidate who represents 100% of your views but has no chance at beating the candidate who represents 0% of your views?
“For the record, I was not one of these people.
I tend to believe that mainstream political opinions and those expressed here on Free Republic are often quite different.”
Nor I, and as to the second point sites like this can be every much the conservative echo chamber full of hopium and whistling-past-the-graveyard that places such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. are for liberals.
An example that comes to mind is when one of the supposedly respected conservative prognosticators posted on here in the summer of 2020 about something ridiculous like a “69-point enthusiasm gap” which compared enthusiasm FOR Trump to enthusiasm FOR Biden.
That, along with some other factors which were said to be important but turned out to be insignificant (like “college students not being present to vote on campuses due to COVID”) were to foreshadow a major Red Wave.
But even if that 69% number was accurate in its limited context, it was meaningless. The correct question for prospective Biden voters was NOT “How excited are you to vote FOR Joe Biden?”, it should have been “How excited are you to vote AGAINST Donald Trump?” Anyone truly interested in making an accurate prediction should have known that.
Goodbye 69-point advantage, and hello negative numbers.
It was always going to be close, although everyone who made any predictions about 2020 no matter how ludicrous (”Trump really won California and New York! And Massachusetts!) can always claim they were right because they believe they WOULD have been right had massive fraud not occurred.
Massive or at least well-targeted fraud DID occur in PA, AZ, GA, MI, WI, NV, etc., but not enough to make ludicrous wishes (”Trump won California!) become reality if it had not.
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