DeSantis takes chance on abortion, in strong contrast with both Biden and Trump

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed a strict abortion ban into law Thursday evening, laying a marker down on a divisive issue ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

A Democratic supermajority in the state government allowed DeSantis to pass a bill banning the majority of abortions after just six weeks of pregnancy after he had already signed an earlier, more conservative 15-week restrictions. He now faces opposition from both President Joe Biden and, to a lesser degree, former President Donald Trump.

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DeSantis tweeted that the Heartbeat Protection Act, which” expands pro-life protections and devotes resources to help young women and families ,” had been signed.

There are exceptions in the original proposal for pregnancies involving rape or incest up to 15 days and for saving the woman’s’s existence. However, it makes some of the nation’s’s most onerous abortion laws in the state.

As expected, the White House released a statement criticizing the bill actually before DeSantis signed it, labeling it” intense and serious” and out of step with the majority of voters’ opinions.

However, it also stands in stark contrast to Trump, DeSantis’ main opponent in the GOP secondary the following year.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, Trump has largely avoided the topic of abortion and even attributed it to the Republican Party’s’s poor midterm performance in 2022.

Trump won the presidency in 2016 thanks to his alliance with the spiritual Right, and he delivered with three conservative Supreme Court justices that tipped the scales of the jury and made abortion a state-by-state situation once more. However, Trump prefers to let the states handle the problem, which has hurt his standing among public conservatives.

Focusing on states’ rights is” an unacceptable situation for any 2024 GOP presidential candidate to hold ,” according to the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America team.

With few to no exceptions, 13 states had outlawed abortion as of Friday, and Georgia and Florida had a six-week restrictions.

DeSantis may be able to take advantage of this distinction in the GOP chief, where he has recently trailed Trump in elections.

What would happen in the general election is the next dilemma.

Republican strategist John Feehery stated that Trump is in a much better political position than either DeSantis or [ former Vice President Mike ] Pence and that the abortion debate will punch up on our faces if we don’t treat it properly. Sen. Tim Scott’s’s [ R – SC ] reluctance to take part in this debate demonstrates how politically divisive it can be.

Scott’s’s national exploratory committee was introduced with a video that was heavily focused on religious and religious elements, but it only supported an abortion ban for 20 weeks and largely avoided commenting on the Texas decision to halt the assent of abortion pills.

Scott emphasized the Left’s’s” serious” stance when pressed closer about contraception during a start in New Hampshire.

The people in the democratic party who think that having an pregnancy on the 39th and 40th year, the day of birth, is acceptable never really had a conversation about the most extreme position in this country, he continued. Therefore, I believe that discussion should go on.

On the other hand, the Biden administration and many Democrats are labeling DeSantis as extreme and will keep pressuring him on the subject if he becomes the Democratic nominee for president.

Democrat strategist Brad Bannon referred to it as” social death.”

DeSantis’ decision surprised Bannon because he doesn’t believe conservative voters will support it, despite the fact that it might aid in the main. In the elections held next fall, Democrats ran a strong abortion get campaign, exceeding expectations.

According to Bannon,” It helps him master Trump and makes it harder for him to hit Biden.” Anyone GOPers do to support themselves with the GOP base will hurt them in November, according to a fundamental political philosophy.

After winning the nomination, DeSantis could potentially switch to the center, arguing that states should handle the situation rather than the federal government, but doing so runs the risk of alienating both the liberal and moderate bases.

A Reuters-Ipsos poll conducted earlier this week revealed that 44 % of Republicans, or 50 % of respondents, strongly or somewhat oppose a nationwide six-week abortion ban. 43 % of Republicans were less likely to support a politician who restricted abortion access, according to the same ballot.

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In his book The Courage to Be Free, DeSantis asserts that he has rejected elections as government and does not use them to get choices.

That has so far been successful because he received almost 60 % of the vote to win reelection in November. If he is successful when it comes to pregnancy as well, only time will tell.