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Trump contradicts himself on abortion, searching for a winning message

With two months to go until the election, Trump,
who has taken credit for the fall of Roe v. Wade,
is sending contradictory messages as he grapples with how to handle an issue many Democrats believe will help lead them to victory in November
— trying to appear more moderate on abortion than much of his party without alienating his evangelical base.

On Friday Donald Trump announced that he would be voting #against a ballot measure in his home state of Florida that would make abortion legal until a fetus becomes viable.

But just a day earlier he appeared poised to do the #opposite. When asked if he would vote for the measure
— the only clear path to restoring abortion access in Florida, where abortion is banned after six weeks of pregnancy
— he said, “I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.”

In addition to his comments on Florida’s six-week ban, Trump also announced this week that he would make in vitro fertilization treatments free if reelected and declared that his administration would be “great for women and their reproductive rights.”

His running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), pledged that Trump would veto a national abortion ban,
even though Vance and many of Trump’s allies have previously backed such a measure.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/30/trump-vance-abortion-anger/