With less than two months until Election Day, former President Donald Trump is playing a show for female voters by suggesting that reproductive rights will be a thing of the past if he is elected to another term.
In an all-caps post on his Truth Social platform on Friday, September 20, he told the women their current lives were “miserable” and vaguely promised to help them move forward, including removing abortion from people’s minds.
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“Women are poorer than four years ago, they are less healthy than four years ago, they are less safe on the street than four years ago, they are more depressed and unhappy than four years ago and they are less optimistic and more confident about the future than they were four years ago !” Trump’s fast has begun.
He continued: “I will fix it all, and fix it fast, and finally this national nightmare will be over. Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free! You will no longer think about abortion, because it is now where it always had to be, with the States and the voice of the people.”
The former president then repeated the false claim that Democrats support “executing babies after birth.”
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Trump held a campaign rally in North Carolina the day after Truth Social’s announcement, where he shared the same message about women’s lifestyles.
“I will protect women on a level never seen before. They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe and secure,” Trump said at the rally. “Their lives will be happy, beautiful and their lives will be great again. So women, we love you. We will take care of you.”
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MSNBC reports that a recent NBC News poll shows Trump trailing Vice President Kamala Harris by 21 points among women voters — worse than his numbers in 2016 (12 points behind) and 2020 (15 points behind).
During their first (and likely only) presidential debate on September 10, Trump and Harris clashed over the issue of abortion, with the vice president vowing to bring it back Roe v. Wade while Trump celebrated the US Supreme Court for overturning it.
“One doesn’t have to abandon one’s faith or deeply held beliefs to believe that the government and Donald Trump should certainly not be telling women what to do with their bodies,” Harris said.
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Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally in Savannah, Ga., on August 29, 2024.
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Hours before Trump tried to win over female voters at the Truth Social, Harris also accused her opponent of being behind the reproductive rights “crisis.”
Speaking about the impact of state abortion bans during a rally in Atlanta, Harris said, “It happens every day in our country: untold numbers of people suffer, women, who also feel like they’ve done something wrong.”
“So to those women, to those families, I say on behalf of what I believe we’re all saying: we see you and you’re not alone and we’re all here and we stand with you,” she continued.
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Harris said at the time that the rollover from Roe v. Wade caused a “healthcare crisis,” adding, “And Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis.”
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