The Harris-Walz campaign today blasted Trump for suggesting in an interview that abortion rights are not a top concern for voters this election.
“Because of extreme Trump abortion bans, women’s health, freedoms, and lives are on the line — yet Donald Trump says women ‘will no longer be thinking about’ it this November. Doctors are facing criminal penalties for providing care, but Trump claims the issue has ‘defused,’” Harris campaign senior adviser Morgan Mohr said in a statement first shared with NBC News.
Trump said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that the issue of abortion has been “largely defused” when he was asked whether women needed to be afraid of a national abortion ban, saying that was “off the table” and that the issue was in the hands of the states.
Trump called abortion a “small issue” at an August news conference, saying it was “not a big factor anymore.”
A new NBC News poll found that abortion was the issue respondents feel so strongly about they would vote for or against a candidate solely on that basis. Twenty-two percent of voters ranked it as a motivating issue.
The same poll asked who voters thought would handle key issues better. Harris’ best issue was abortion, with a 19-percentage-point lead over Trump.
“Survivors are facing the barbaric repercussions of Trump bans with no exceptions, but Trump shrugs it off and says abortion is ‘overplayed’ and is ‘going to be a very small issue,’” Mohr said. “Trump thinks he can get away with his unpopular Project 2025 plans to ban abortion nationwide because he doesn’t think women’s freedoms matter to the American people. He’s wrong — and he’ll learn the hard way this November.”
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