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Donald Trump says he will be voting to keep near-total abortion bar in Florida, when the issue heads to the ballot box in November.
The former president told Fox News on Friday that he would be voting against Florida's Amendment 4, which would amend the state's constitution to say that "no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health..."
It comes one day after Trump said Florida's six-week abortion ban is "too short" and that he wanted "more weeks."
Elsewhere on Friday, Trump held a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in which he treated crowds to a selection of his greatest hits from previous campaigns and criticized Kamala Harris' sit-down with CNN. He is also due to address ultra-conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty in Washington DC this evening.
On Thursday, Harris gave the first official interview of her campaign alongside her running mate Tim Walz, during which she declared that her "values" were unchanged, despite some reversals on key policy positions surrounding immigration and fracking.
JD Vance quickly jumped on the comment and accused Harris of "flip-flopping" during her interview in a scathing analysis while speaking to Fox & Friends on Friday.
Key Points
- Trump claims IVF costs will be covered for all Americans
- JD Vance accuses Harris of ‘flip-flopping’ during her CNN interview
- Harris shares ‘TMI’ on how she learned Biden was exiting race during CNN interview
- Trump accuses Biden and Harris of ‘killing’ US troops amid Arlington cemetery spat
- Schedule: Where are the Trump-Vance, Harris-Walz campaigns today?
Trump says he will vote to keep Florida’s six-week abortion ban
Donald Trump says he will be voting to keep near-total abortion ban in Florida, when the issue heads to the ballot box in November.
The former president told Fox News on Friday that he would be voting against Florida’s Amendment 4, which would amend the state’s constitution to say that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”
“All of that stuff is unacceptable so I will be voting no for that reason,” he told Fox News.
It comes one day after Trump said Florida’s six-week abortion ban is “too short” and that he wanted “more weeks.” In an interview with NBC he appeared to suggest that he would vote for the abortion rights amendment to the state’s constitution.
That amendment would effectively overturn the state’s ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy - before most people know they are pregnant.
Trump says Florida abortion ban is ‘too short’, suggests he will vote to amend it
‘I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,’ Trump says when asked about Ballot Amendment 4 in Florida
Mike Bedigan30 August 2024 23:05 1725054605Trump brushes off media claims that he ‘rambles'
Mike Bedigan30 August 2024 22:50 1725054005Trump says he looking forward to debate with Harris ‘very much'
Donald Trump said that he was looking forward to his debate with Kamala Harris on September 10 “very much.”
Speaking about Harris attitude to Joe Biden before becoming his vice president, Trump said: “She called [Biden] a racist... she’ll probably call me a racist in a week or so, a week and a half?
“I look forward to that debate very much.”
Mike Bedigan30 August 2024 22:40 1725053405Trump praises China leader for executing drug offenders.
At Friday’s rally, Trump once again praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for executing drug offenders.
“‘If they sell drugs, they die,“’ Trump said Xi told him. “When they have that, you don’t have a drug problem.”
He said that “every drug dealer on average kills 500 people,” a completely made-up figure that he has repeatedly floated in rallies.
After spending some political capital in office to get drug offenders out of prison, Trump has called for executing people who are charged with drug crimes, potentially tartgeting the same kind of people he invested his political capital in freeing.
Read more from Alex Woodward and Josh Marcus:
Donald Trump helped release drug prisoners. Now he wants to execute them
After helping release people convicted of drug crimes, Trump now wants the death penalty for those same offences. Experts and the people given reprieve by the former president warn Josh Marcus and Alex Woodward against the dangers of his rhetoric
Mike Bedigan30 August 2024 22:30 1725052505Trump repeats bizarre claim that nobody knows Kamala’s second name
Donald Trump once again repeated his bizarre claim that people did not know the last name of his Democratic rival.
“Kamala Harris… nobody knows what her last name is,” the former president said, seemingly unaware of the irony of his remark.
Mike Bedigan30 August 2024 22:15 1725051905Trump opens Pennsylvania rally with greatest hits
The Independent’s Alex Woodward writes:
Within moments after taking the stage to his personal anthem of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” Trump repeated his familiar refrain of “China,” told his supporters to look at the press behind them as he blasted “fake news,” and reminded them of his attempts in 2020 to throw people in jail for vandalizing protesters — launching into a sort of sleepy greatest hits from previous campaigns.
Mike Bedigan30 August 2024 22:05 1725050960Donald Trump takes the stage in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Donald Trump has taken the stage at his rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
The former president began immediately by attacking Kamala Harris and her appearance on CNN on Thursday night.
“It’s coming... 67 days. Wow. 67 days from now, we’re going to win Pennsylvania,” he said.
“We’re going to defeat comrade Kamala Harris. Did you see her last night? ... I dunno. You think she’s going to be able to handle President Xi [of China], North Korea, Russia, I don’t know, but we’re going to win back the White House.”
Mike Bedigan30 August 2024 21:49 1725050152Army defends employee linked to Trump campaign altercation at Arlington National Cemetery
The US Army has defended the Arlington National Cemetery employee who was “abruptly pushed aside” during an altercation with Donald Trump’s campaign staffers on Monday.
The official filed an incident report with the military after the alleged incident on Monday with Trump’s campaign staff, according to The New York Times.
Read more from The Independent here:
Army backs employee linked to Trump campaign altercation at Arlington Cemetery
US Army has confirmed that female Arlington National Cemetery official was ‘abruptly pushed aside’ by Trump’s staff members
Mike Bedigan30 August 2024 21:35 1725048652Former Trump lawyer speaks ahead of him at Pennsylvania rally
Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba took to the stage in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, ahead of a speech by the former president and proceeded to lay into Kamala Harris, telling those gathered “I’m over it.”
“Kamala talks about shattering glass ceilings, but let’s look at the facts,” she said. “Kamala make talk a big game but her policies are crushing us, and let me be clear, when you say Biden it’s the same damn thing.”
“I’m not buying her headline grabbing stunts – I’m over it.”
She added: “Ladies and gentleman, I don’t know if you saw the CNN interview. But I am an american woman, I am a maga woman, and I don’t need a man standing next to me to get up and speak.”
Mike Bedigan30 August 2024 21:10 1725048080Watch live: Donald Trump holds Johnstown town hall as Arlington cemetery visit fallout continues
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