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Can Trump hide from abortion? |
There is a great irony in former President Trump's recent efforts to distance himself from the anti-abortion movement's national abortion ban proposals, writes Fox News political analyst Juan Williams. "Trump – the man most responsible for putting abortion in the middle of today's politics – is the only one on the campaign trail keeping quiet." |
It wasn't so long ago that many anti-abortion advocates were calling Trump the most pro-life president in history. After all, he was three for three in nominating anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court — something no other Republican president could boast. And those three justices came through last year by overturning Roe v. Wade, which for nearly 50 years had guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion. Trump, Williams notes, "also put Texas judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on the federal bench. He is the judge who suspended use of an abortion pill, safely used for 20 years." But in part because of the court's Roe decision, abortion has become a political loser for Republicans, writes Williams, and Trump seems to have noticed. "Trump, looking beyond the primaries, surely knows that any Republican backing a nationwide ban on abortion will be badly wounded going into the general election." Meanwhile, Trump's "rivals see an opening. They are betting they can beat Trump by grabbing the label of the most anti-abortion candidate in the race," Williams writes. Trump has also remained mum on state-level efforts to limit the procedure, such as Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signing of a six-week ban in Florida. Williams concludes that "if the GOP wants to avoid a wipeout in the 2024 elections, they will have to try the impossible and do all they can to hide their anti-abortion agenda." "At best they can follow Trump's strategy — say nothing." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
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By Kristin Tate, libertarian author |
Should San Francisco pass comprehensive reparations, one thing is clear: The federal government, sooner or later, will be asked to pick up most of the tab. There are already ample precedents of this concept playing out during the pandemic, and it will happen again. |
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By Dr. Marc Siegel, professor of medicine and medical director of "Doctor Radio" at NYU Langone Health |
AI works by pattern recognition, comparing what it's seeing to hundreds of thousands of previous databases and answering questions posed by referencing these same databases. However, AI will always lack a well-trained physician's flexibility and deep insights. |
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By Douglas MacKinnon, political and communications consultant |
I spoke with two senior Democrats and veterans of presidential campaigns regarding RFK Jr. Neither was willing to write him off. One said, "I'd take the long view on this campaign if I were his opponents, the media or the Republicans. One could certainly find parallels to the Gov. Jimmy Carter campaign of 1976, if one cared to look." |
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By Ronald A. Marks, former CIA officer |
When Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira was arrested, I thought, 'Here we go again — the latest in a long line of arrogant, unhappy people leaking information for political purposes.' It appears in this case, I was wrong. And in being wrong, I think we may be starting to see a troubling pattern to come. |
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