Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance says he’s learned a lesson about speaking for Donald Trump and backed away from a previous statement about Trump’s position on abortion. Left unanswered, though, is a basic question: Would Donald Trump veto a national abortion ban if he returns to the White House and such legislation landed on his desk? Vance, in an interview Sunday on “Meet the Press,” described the issue as a “ridiculous hypothetical.
” And he evaded the question, arguing the scenario never will happen. “If a national abortion ban was brought before the United States Senate right now, it would get, at best, 10 senators out of 100. So, I think we should talk about issues that actually might come before the president,” Vance told moderator Kristen Welker.
“His point was that it is a hypothetical, and not a hypothetical that has any chance of crossing his desk.” Abortion and reproductive rights are a high-interest issue in the presidential race. In several states, abortion issues are on the ballot for Nov.
5. Since the U.S.
Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, more than a dozen states have banned abortion outright. Several others have implemented restrictions.
Yet, reproductive rights issues have done well when put before voters. Voters in red states Kansas and Ohio enshrined reproductive rights in their state constitutions. Trump has changed positions on the issue several times, from professing to be pro-choice years ago to saying in 2016 that “ ther.