This Kansas result is honestly consistent with my long-standing gut feeling on the abortion issue and the Republican party.
I think there are a lot of loyal Republican voters who are such because they want border security, law and order, a strong defense and small government.
I think a LOT of those Republicans, when the issue of abortion came up, would say “oh yeah, I’m pro-life” because that’s their “team’s” position. But a lot of those same people would want abortion to be an option if they got drunk and got some girl in a bar pregnant.
We need to defuse this issue somehow before November. As long as we take the House we can stop the Biden agenda.
Poll after poll after poll has consistently shown that a majority of Americans (to include many Republicans and Trump-voters) support legal abortion in the first trimester.
Many people here don't want to hear it and expect politicians to champion laws that are 100% pro-life with zero exceptions. Roe was a convenient foil that allowed GOP politicians to do just that, back extreme anti-abortion measures that would please the pro-life side of their base, while still retaining many more moderate voters, because they knew that these laws would be struck down in the courts.
Now Roe is gone and we are going to see where the issue truly stands. And those who think it stands firmly behind life without exceptions are likely to find themselves on the losing side of elections except in the safest of red districts (and maybe not even there, as the results of this referendum has demonstrated).