Trump makes play for women's vote, vows to ensure 'powerful exceptions' for abortion

Former President Trump vowed to "protect women astatine a level ne'er seen before" if elected, and to guarantee that "powerful exceptions" for abortion are adopted crossed the nation, successful a societal media station aboriginal Saturday.

Trump, successful the lengthy late-night missive to his Truth Social successful each capitalized letters, said "women are poorer than they were 4 years ago, are little steadfast than they were 4 years ago, are little harmless connected the streets than they were 4 years ago, are much depressed and unhappy than they were 4 years ago, and are little optimistic and assured successful the aboriginal than they were 4 years ago." 

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"I volition hole each of that, and fast, and astatine agelong past this nationalist nightmare volition beryllium over," helium said. "Women volition beryllium happy, healthy, assured and free!"

Polls person consistently shown Trump moving strongly, against Vice President Kamala Harris successful astir demographic groups, but struggling with women. Much of that has been attributed to the information that the 3 justices helium picked for the Supreme Court helped overturn Roe v. Wade, which had enshrined termination protections nether national law.

In his post, Trump wrote that women "will nary longer beryllium reasoning astir abortion, due to the fact that it is present wherever it ever had to be, with the states, and a ballot of the people—and with almighty exceptions, similar those that Ronald Reagan insisted connected for rape, incest, and the beingness of the mother—but not allowing for Democrat demanded precocious word termination successful the 7th, 8th, oregon 9th month, oregon adjacent execution of a babe aft birth."

"I volition support women astatine a level ne'er seen before," helium said. "They volition yet beryllium healthy, hopeful, harmless and secure." 

Trump added: "Their lives volition beryllium happy, beautiful, and large again!" 

Former President Donald Trump speaks astatine a rally successful Uniondale, New York, connected Wednesday, September 18, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

The erstwhile president’s play for the pistillate ballot comes aft Vice President Harris campaigned successful Georgia, delivering a code astir the consequences of, what her run calls "extreme Trump Abortion Bans." 

"After Vice President Harris spent the week speaking astir the consequences of Trump Abortion Bans and the stakes of this predetermination for women’s lives, Donald Trump snapped — taking to his telephone precocious astatine nighttime to rant and rave astir women," Harris-Walz 2024 Spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said successful effect to Trump’s Truth Social post. "After ripping distant our reproductive freedom, present he’s trying to archer america however to think." 

Chitika said "Trump thinks helium tin power women — he’s wrong." 

The Harris run said helium is "terrified that women crossed the state volition ballot similar our lives and freedoms beryllium connected it, due to the fact that they do." 

"Women aren’t stupid. We spot Trump’s Project 2025 docket for what it is: an utmost program to prohibition termination nationwide and endanger entree to IVF and commencement control," Chitika said. "We’ll ballot similar it this November."

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But Trump run nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital that Harris and President Joe Biden person enactment women's lives successful danger, and noted the names of women who person been killed by amerciable immigrants.

"President Trump is right. Kamala whitethorn privation to beryllium the archetypal pistillate president, but she’s made the lives of women worse — much unsafe and much unaffordable," Leavitt said. "If Kamala cared astir protecting women, she would adjacent the borderline and halt allowing rapists and murderers to travel into our state to prey connected young women and girls. Kamala has ne'er said the names of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nunguaray, and Rachel Morin. President Trump has honored their lives and consoled their grieving families." 

Leavitt added: "If women privation safety, information and prosperity for our families, there’s lone 1 enactment connected the ballot — President Trump."

As for Project 2025, a blueprint for a Republican medication crafted by the Heritage Foundation, Leavitt repeated Trump's assertion that helium did not committee it and has nary plans to instrumentality it if elected.

"President Trump has repeatedly said helium has thing to bash with Project 2025," Leavitt said, adding that "Kamala’s run is lying due to the fact that they are losing."

Democratic statesmanlike campaigner U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks connected signifier during the last time of the Democratic National Convention astatine the United Center connected August 22, 2024. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

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Harris continues to assertion that Trump volition instal a nationalist termination prohibition that would let for nary exceptions, contempt Trump repeatedly saying that helium would ne'er enactment a nationalist termination ban, and believes successful exceptions for abortion, including rape, incest, and beingness of the mother. 

Harris has refused to accidental whether she supports immoderate termination restrictions up to birth. 

Trump has vowed that helium "will not block" termination pills oregon termination medicine for women, should helium beryllium elected president.