Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives on the airport on Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump is visiting Atlanta for a marketing campaign fundraising occasion he’s internet hosting.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives on the airport on Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump is visiting Atlanta for a marketing campaign fundraising occasion he’s internet hosting.

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This week, Donald Trump dissatisfied abortion rights opponents by not mentioning a federal ban in his long-awaited abortion coverage announcement.

Now, he is going additional — telling reporters in Atlanta that he wouldn’t signal a federal ban, even when one got here to his desk.

Responding to a shouted query about whether or not he would signal a ban if Congress handed one, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee shook his head and repeated “no” twice.

It’s one other twist in Trump’s lengthy historical past of shifting stances on abortion rights. As president, Trump supported a 20-week federal abortion ban, and in current weeks has mentioned he was open to fifteen weeks.

Even earlier than that, when he was working for president in 2016, at one level he mentioned girls looking for abortions ought to obtain “some form of punishment.”

In his remarks to reporters on Wednesday, Trump additionally addressed the Arizona Supreme Court’s choice to permit an 1864 near-total ban to be enforced.

Asked if the state courtroom went too far, Trump responded, “Yeah they did, and that will be straightened out.”

He was additionally requested in regards to the current choice in Florida, his house state, to permit a 6-week ban to take impact. In response, Trump implied that he desires Arizona and Florida to loosen their abortion restrictions. But whereas criticizing these states’ bans, he additionally mentioned he helps states’ rights to determine their very own abortion insurance policies.

“Now the states have it and the states are putting out what they want. It’s the will of the people,” he mentioned. “So Florida’s probably going to change, Arizona’s going to definitely change, everybody wants that to happen.”

Since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, abortion rights have repeatedly gained in statewide poll measures. In addition, abortion has confirmed to encourage voters in state legislature elections. Both Florida and Arizona will seemingly see a query on abortion entry on their ballots this fall.

With that in thoughts, the Biden marketing campaign has been attacking Trump on abortion rights all through this marketing campaign. The Biden marketing campaign launched a press release in response to Trump’s Wednesday remarks.

“Donald Trump owns the suffering and chaos happening right now, including in Arizona, because he proudly overturned Roe – something he called ‘an incredible thing’ and ‘pretty amazing’ just today,” mentioned communications director Michael Tyler.