Donald Trump faced the biggest decision of his campaign.
Trump’s choice could mean the difference between victory and defeat.
And Donald Trump made one announcement that had supporters jumping for joy.
Donald Trump’s stance on abortion
Pro-abortion forces in Florida succeeded in getting Amendment Four on the ballot.
Amendment Four would enshrine taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand until birth in the Florida State Constitution.
Donald Trump is Florida’s most famous resident, and Trump had yet to declare which way he would vote on this ballot initiative.
Trump previously said that abortion was a state issue and criticized Florida’s law that protected life once doctors detect a heartbeat at six weeks as too harsh.
Both of those stances angered some supporters.
But Trump further upset Pro-Life voters when he sounded like he was open to voting for Amendment Four in an interview with NBC’s Dasha Burns.
“I think the six weeks is too short, there has to be more time,” Trump told Burns.
"I think the six week is too short, there has to be more time," former President Trump says how he'll vote on an abortion rights amendment in Florida. pic.twitter.com/rQAdPtW9i0
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) August 29, 2024
Donald Trump announces his opposition to Amendment Four
Conservative pundit Erick Erickson wrote that Pro-Life activists were talking amongst themselves about voting for Republicans down ballot but leaving the Presidential line blank in protest.
“We have a really good shot at taking the Senate. Manchin leaving gets us to 50. Tester is toast. That’s 51. Between that and the Supreme Court, we can hold off Harris for two years and get more reinforcements then fight in 2028 for the White House. If Trump gets in, we set back the pro-life cause and free markets by a generation at least,” Erickson described these theoretical conversations going.
Donald Trump clearly felt the pressure.
Within 24 hours, Trump told Fox News that while he still disagreed with the Florida law, he would vote against Amendment 4 because it would impose the most radical pro-abortion laws in the country on Florida.
“I think six weeks, you need more time than six weeks,” Trump began.
“I’ve disagreed with that right from the early Primaries when I heard about it, I disagreed with it. At the same time, the Democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation, where you can do an abortion in the ninth month,” Trump added.
Trump also slammed Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz for presiding over a state where it’s legal to let a baby born alive following a failed abortion procedure die without medical treatment as the type of extremist policy Democrats want to foist on red states like Florida with these ballot measures.
“Some of the states like Minnesota and other states have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth, and all of that stuff is unacceptable,” Trump concluded. “So, I’ll be voting no for that reason.”
Trump supporters breathed a sigh of relief for two reasons.
First, it galvanized his base heading into what will be an insanely close election.
And second, in Florida, a ballot initiative requires 60 percent of the vote to pass.
Many Republicans in Florida don’t understand the consequences of passing Amendment Four.
Trump coming out in opposition to this ballot measure could push some on the fence Republicans to vote no and keep Amendment Four below the 60 percent threshold.
