and now to the growing Fallout over Trump's latest comments on abortion the former president said he was proud to have ended roie Wade but that abortion restrictions should be left up to the states and that's getting him heat from both sides of the aisle President Biden accusing Trump of lying about his stance while Trump's own vice president Mike Pence and his longtime Ally Lindsey Graham blasted him for opposing Federal abortion restrictions let's bring in NBC News correspondent Asha Burns for
mer democratic congresswoman from Maryland Donna Edwards former Chief strategist for the bush Cheney 2004 campaign Matthew D also with us thank you all Dasha fill us in on the blowback Trump is getting from both sides on this issue well the blowback came pretty fast and furious from both sides of the aisle Onna look he had been test driving this idea of like 15 16 weeks at a as a as a federal ban so there was some speculation that he might come out and endorse something like that instead he came
out and said you know what I overturn roie I did this for you guys now it's up to the states some will have more restrictions some will have less well the right of his party the conservatives in his party that are anti-abortion were not too happy about him allowing States like New York and California to pursue uh their own agenda on this and you heard from Lindsey Graham you heard from Mike Pence you heard from the Susan B Anthony organization that's really influential uh in in anti-abortion ad
vocacy the former president though knows that this is a tough issue for Republicans when it comes to elections and even in that 4-minute video where he came out with his position he said at one point you know follow your heart but we must win and on social media he's clapping back at Lindsey Graham saying the senator is doing a great disservice to the Republican party to our country writing later many good Republicans lost elections because of this issue and people like Lindsey Graham that are u
nrelenting are handing Democrats their dream of the house senate and perhaps even the presidency now president B and the Democrats are jumping on this right away criticizing the former president criticizing the fact that he's taking credit for the overturning of Row versus weight and all of the complications and the Fallout afterwards they came out with a pretty uh deep raw personal ad highlighting the story of a woman who had a miscarriage at 18 weeks and was not able to get appropriate medical
care because of the overturning of Row versus weight I want you to take a listen to some of this these are little Footprints it's okay this is something that Democrats at the Biden campaign will keep hammering on the campaign Trail we've seen time and again Anna that abortion is a losing issue for republicans and it can drive Democratic voters and voters in the middle to the polls Anna Matthew so Trump is blaming other Republicans on election losses those Republicans who backed strict abortion
rules what do you make of the the party in fighting well it's funny that he's blaming other Republicans when he picked most of the losers he endorsed most of the losers that ended up uh losing in their key races so if anybody's responsible for the losses it's Donald Trump in this to me Donald Trump ended up on the at the actual worst possible political position that he could have been in he didn't satisfy the right and he still has he still is allowed to be able to motivate the left and the cent
er in this country against his policies and add to that Donald Trump is going to be confronted by this every day when he says leave it up to the states he's goingon to after the answer have to answer the question well do you agree with what Florida's doing do you agree with what Texas is doing do you agree with what Alabama's doing do you agree with what Mississippi is doing in all of this and so he I think ended up on the worst possible position in this he's he's offended his his part of his ba
se and he's done nothing to appease swing voters so to me take the substance out of the question which we could have a conversation about substantively where Donald Trump in this which is awful politically it's a loser in every way and so Democrats are pouncing congresswoman they've been quick to hammer home as DHA points out how Trump has proudly taken credit for ending roie Wade let's listen I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that all legal Scholars both sides wan
ted and in fact demanded be ended r v Wade if he were to be put back in a position where he could sign off on a law he would sign off on a National Abortion ban let's be very clear about that congresswoman what should Democrats do if they want to keep this issue top of- mind for voters well it's going to be top of mind for voters because on the one hand Donald Trump is in a box of his own making he takes credit for ending roie way but now he wants to dance all over uh uh The Middle on this issue
and so I think that Democrats are going to be smart up and down the ballot of uh running on uh restoring and protecting abortion rights and they are where the majority of the American people are on this issue and Donald Trump should not be able to escape responsibility for overturning grow and you're going to see it on ballots all across the uh the country where this is going to be a ke key issue front and center for voters Democrats need to run with it run on it hey everyone MSNBC has a new an
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