WASHINGTON — Former President Trump doesn’t want to talk much about abortion in his 2024 presidential campaign. But as his muddled messaging on mifepristone on Thursday showed, Democrats are ready to seize on any opportunities he presents to keep reproductive rights in the national spotlight.
A reporter asked the GOP presidential candidate during a lengthy press conference at Mar-a-Lago whether he would direct the Food and Drug Administration to “revoke access” to the abortion pill mifepristone if elected to a second term. Although Trump’s answer was hard to interpret, he did not shut down the idea.
“You could do things that will be — would supplement. Absolutely. Those things are pretty open and humane,” he said. “But you have to be able to have a vote, and all I want to do is give everybody a vote.”
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