The ex-president is popping up on mailers and in digital ads, sponsored by the group looking to enshrine abortion rights into Florida’s constitution.
MOVE OVER, MARGARET SANGER. The new face of abortion rights in Florida is . . . Donald Trump?
One of the groups backing Florida’s abortion-rights initiative is trying to attract Trump voters with mailers and a soon-to-be-released digital ad that highlights the former president’s opposition to the state’s existing six-week abortion ban.
“I think the six-week ban is too short,” Trump told NBC News in August when he was asked about the ballot initiative, called Amendment 4, which would allow abortion before fetal viability. “There has to be more time . . . I want more weeks.”
Those Trump comments, along with other remarks he made in opposition to the ban last year, are splashed in large, white type on the 250,000 black mailers sent earlier this month by the Florida Women’s Freedom Coalition to Republican and conservative-leaning independent voters.
Trump made his opposition to Amendment 4 clear after social conservatives criticized his remarks in August, saying that they were undermining their campaign to defeat the initiative. But the decision to use Trump’s likeness and words in favor of the initiative illustrates the degree to which the ex-president’s muddled messaging on abortion could make him palatable to people on both sides of the issue.
In a departure from past practice, however, the Trump campaign didn’t call on the Florida Women’s Freedom Coalition to stop using the mailer or object to the use of his likeness, a frequent complaint of his.
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