Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis didn’t hesitate to accuse former President Donald Trump of not being pro-life Thursday when asked during an Iowa town hall event.
DeSantis, 45, claimed the 77-year-old Republican presidential front-runner had “reversed” on abortion and would seek to “override” state-level bans on the procedure if elected to a second term.
“I think for pro-life voters in Iowa, Donald Trump is taking a very different position than what he professed to believe in when he first ran for president in 2016,” DeSantis told the CNN host during the forum.
“Do you think Donald Trump is not pro-life?” Collins then asked the White House hopefully.
“Of course not,” he replied.
“I mean, when you say that pro-life protection is a terrible thing, by definition, you’re not pro-life,” he added.
“When you say you want to have a federal law at 18 weeks or 20 weeks that would override states like Iowa that have enacted pro-life protections — that means more abortions, not less abortions.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis didn’t hesitate to accuse former President Donald Trump of not being pro-life Thursday when asked during a town hall event in Iowa. Reuters
Trump angered conservatives last year when he criticized Florida’s six-week abortion ban as “a terrible thing” and “a terrible mistake.”
DeSantis went on to blast Trump for appearing at the March for Life anti-abortion rally in Washington, DC, in 2020 and calling for protections for the unborn only to “flip-flop” on the issue.
“I don’t know if it’s because of political convenience or if this is what he always believes, but here’s the thing, some issues are quite basic. How do you flip-flop on something like the sanctity of life?” DeSantis said.
DeSantis, 45, claimed the 77-year-old Republican presidential front-runner had “reversed” on abortion and would seek to “override” state-level bans on the procedure if elected to a second term. Reuters
Trump leads DeSantis by a margin of 32.7 percentage points in Iowa, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, which shows the former president with 51.3% support to the Florida governor’s 18.6% support.
The Iowa caucuses will take place on January 15th.
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