Tue Sep 19, 2023 – 2:55 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential contender Ron DeSantis excoriated his chief rival former President Donald Trump Monday for his intentions to broker an abortion compromise that will let Republicans “go on to other things” if elected, which DeSantis took as a signal to pro-lifers that Trump is “preparing to sell you out.”
Over the weekend, Trump appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, during which said that if he returns to the White House he will mediate a negotiation that will “agree to a number of weeks or months or however you want to define it, and both sides are going to come together, and both sides, both sides—and this is a big statement—both sides will come together, and for the first time in 52 years you’ll have an issue that we can put behind us.”
During the exchange, Trump also repeatedly refused to say if he believes the preborn have constitutional rights, would not commit to signing a 15-week abortion ban (which would only stop an estimated 7% of abortions), expressed indifference as to whether abortion is resolved at the state or federal level, reiterated
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