I do not want to derail a Trump thread on abortion, but I do think that Trump may in the end not have a problem getting enough women to vote for him to win. I think there is a subset of otherwise politically moderate women voters who do silently vote for the pro abortion candidate in every election as one of their primary issues.
This subset didn’t trust even “Romney” to not take away abortion rights. They might however trust Trump, simply because Trump has held liberal views in the past and doesn’t appear to threatening to them on that issue.
Frankly I think this is why some Dems are cautious and fearful of a Trump candidacy because they can’t trap him on social or personal lifestyle issues like they have done with other GOP candidates in the past.
I have 2 recent college graduate kids. They have tons of college age friends. And both always tell me, their friends do not like republicans only because they are too rigid on women’s abortion rights. My counter-point always is that presidents have almost no bearing on abortion laws. But of course youngsters get their information from TV clips, and not from reading anything substantive.
That’s why Trump keeps saying he “loves women’s health.”