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Given a choice between getting a root canal and having to talk about abortion in a presidential election year, best-selling author Bernard Goldberg thinks most Republicans would opt for the root canal. |
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Former President Trump thrust the issue back into the spotlight this week by releasing a video in which he said abortion should be left up to the states. This contradicts pro-life leaders who are calling for a national ban on the procedure. "That's what trying to have it both ways looks like when you're running for president," writes Goldberg of Trump. "He didn't come out in favor of a national ban on abortion…but he didn't come out against such a ban, either." Meanwhile, several states have moved to ban most abortions, keeping the issue in the news and allowing Democrats to portray Republicans as extremists. Trump is no doubt betting that crossing pro-lifers won't harm him politically. After all, pro-life leaders have spent the last four years referring to Trump as "the most pro-life president in history" and Biden as the opposite. It's not as if pro-lifers are going to vote for Biden or stay home on Election Day; they're stuck with Trump. "We can be sure of two things as the campaign moves on toward Nov. 5.," writes Goldberg. "One is that whenever abortion comes up, Republicans will want to change the subject." The other is that Democrats won't let them – and neither will Trump. Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, April 12. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By J.T. Young, former House and Senate staffer |
No one checks as many boxes on the identity-group politics bingo card as Harris. And none can claim the same executive experience at such a high level — unless Democrats are willing to admit publicly what they know privately: Harris has not been a good fit as vice president. |
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By Jason Steinbaum, adjunct professor at the American University School of Public Affairs |
Even though the case has been brushed aside repeatedly by commentators, it is all about Trump's first attempt to illegally interfere with and potentially steal an election. The country should pay much closer attention, because a conviction in Manhattan could change the course of this fall's balloting and, potentially, the future of our nation. |
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By Derek Hunter, radio talk show host |
The left appears to have decided to deal with Kennedy's candidacy by insisting that Kennedy somehow has no claim to the Kennedy legacy, or that his campaign is tarnishing it. The Democratic National Committee is effectively squatting on the Kennedy name, trying to claim it as their own while denying it to an actual Kennedy. |
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By Brad Bannon, Democratic pollster |
To escape the dark shadow that the violence in Gaza has cast over his presidency, Joe Biden must make a clean break in word and in deed from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign of death and destruction against Palestine. |
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