Analysis: How Trump became an abortion hard-liner
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 15 at 10:24 AM Late Tuesday, the Alabama state Senate passed a law prohibiting nearly any abortion in the state. While the vote was a culmination of a long-standing push by conservative politicians in a conservative state, the timing was not an accident.
Exit polls conducted during the vote that year reinforce how important white evangelical Protestant voters were to Trump’s election. About a quarter of voters that year identified as evangelical, and Trump won 80 percent of their votes. In other words, about a fifth of all votes were cast by evangelicals for Trump.
Before Trump got into the race, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee led with evangelical voters, a reflection of his ties to that constituency. As Trump gained in support, he also gained with more religious voters. But while his lead in the overall Republican vote was never really challenged, he twice faced significant challenges from competitors for the evangelical vote. Both Ben Carson and Sen.
A month into his candidacy, Trump received a robust endorsement of his views on abortion from the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody. In an interview, Trump offered his support for pro-life legislation that was current in Congress and explained to Brody how his interactions with a friend who’d contemplated abortion changed his mind on the subject.
Conservative groups reacted with outrage, as you might expect. The Trump campaign again offered a clarifying/reshaping statement even before the segment aired.
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