It’s the Abortion, Stupid
Plus: Trump Wants to “Fix” Our Booming Economy. Don’t Let Him Near It.
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BILL KRISTOL: It’s the Abortion, Stupid
AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO DETECTS, among many of my fellow commentators commentating away on this election, a kind of reluctance, almost a kind of embarrassment, to state the obvious: Abortion rights is the issue that could decide this presidential contest.
This is particularly clear from Ann Selzer’s Iowa poll, with the shocking result of Kamala Harris up 47-44 over Donald Trump in Iowa, a state with a six-week abortion ban.
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JILL D. LAWRENCE: Trump Wants to “Fix” Our Booming Economy. Don’t Let Him Near It.
BARACK OBAMA HAS BEEN TRYING HIS BEST to inject some inconvenient truths into the information stream in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign—most importantly, that he knows a thing or two about how to fix an economy, and Donald Trump doesn’t.
“Some people say, ‘Well you know what, I remember the economy being pretty good when Donald Trump first came into office,’” Obama told a crowd in Pittsburgh the other day. “Yes—it was pretty good. Because it was my economy!
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