Trump slammed the Democratic VP Candidate saying he would veto any abortion ban that came to his desk if he was reelected.
During Tuesday nights Vice Presidential debate between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Senator J.D Vance former President Donald Trump went on an all-caps rant on his social media platform Truth Social.
While the candidates were discussing abortion policy Walz slammed Trump and Vance for their stance on abortion Trump went on a tirade about how he would veto a federal abortion ban if one ever landed on his desk.
“EVERYONE KNOWS I WOULD NOT SUPPORT A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND WOULD, IN FACT, VETO IT, BECAUSE IT IS UP TO THE STATES TO DECIDE BASED ON THE WILL OF THEIR VOTERS (THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!),” he wrote in all caps on Truth Social.
Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz speaks during the Vice Presidential debate (
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In another post, Trump wrote: Did Tampon Tim just say he has “become friends with school shooters?” He isn’t even qualified to be Governor, let alone Vice President. Walz and Kamala DO NOT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES!”
Trump had repeatedly declined to say during his own debate if he would veto an abortion ban if elected again. The question has lingered as the GOP nominee has shifted his stances on this key issue.
Vance had previously said that the former president would veto a ban. But during the presidential debate, Trump said he “didn’t discuss it with JD, in all fairness. And I don’t mind if he has a certain view, but I don’t think he was speaking for me.”
Similar to Harris’ strategy of referring to abortion restrictions as “Trump abortion bans,” Walz also pointed to Trump’s role in appointing the three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the constitutional right to abortion, unleashing a wave of restrictions on the procedure across Republican-led states.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (
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“Donald Trump put this all into motion,” Walz said.
Walz looked nervous or unsettled at the start of the debate, speaking with “umms” and pauses on the debate’s early foreign policy questions.
But he’s looked more comfortable as the debate crosses the halfway mark. It probably helps that the topic shifted to his favored ground, abortion rights.
The family of Amber Thurman, a Georgia mother who died while waiting for an emergency room to treat medical complications after she took abortion pills, thanked Walz for mentioning her during Tuesday’s debate.
Thurman died in 2022, weeks after Georgia enacted a strict abortion ban, according to reporting by ProPublica. She waited roughly 20 hours, even developing sepsis, before emergency room doctors agreed to perform the medical procedure known as a D&C that she needed after developing complications from taking abortion pills.
“The fight for justice for Amber is a fight for every woman’s right to make decisions about her own body and access the medical care she needs,” the family said in a statement released through an attorney. “We will not stop until these dangerous laws are repealed, and no more lives are lost.”
Walz looked nervous or unsettled at the start of the debate, speaking with “umms” and pauses on the debate’s early foreign policy questions. (
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