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Trump’s effort to reframe abortion as a states’ rights issue was supposed to lower the temperature. On May 4, it mostly underlined how badly he had boxed himself in, with Democrats hammering him for the consequences of overturning Roe and conservatives still wondering whether he was preparing to duck a national ban without fully admitting it.
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Trump’s effort to reframe abortion as a states’ rights issue was supposed to lower the temperature. On May 4, it mostly underlined how badly he had boxed himself in, with Democrats hammering him for the consequences of overturning Roe and conservatives still wondering whether he was preparing to duck a national ban without fully admitting it.
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Trump’s effort to reframe abortion as a states’ rights issue was supposed to lower the temperature. On May 4, it mostly underlined how badly he had boxed himself in, with Democrats hammering him for the consequences of overturning Roe and conservatives still wondering whether he was preparing to duck a national ban without fully admitting it.
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