Florida Supreme Court puts abortion on the ballot – and hands Trump a serious problem

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Florida Supreme Court puts ********* on the ballot – and hands Trump a serious problem

In the end, Ron “DeSanctimonious”

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– just not in the way he expected.

The

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– which he pushed as part of his presidential run, thinking he could out-extreme Trump and the other GOP candidates – got the green light from the Florida Supreme Court on Monday. It will go into effect

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, with the state’s previous 15-week ********* ban kicking in until then.

That’s horrific, but the state’s high court also ruled that

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, giving voters a chance to strike down DeSantis’ ban and, if past elections are any evidence, driving voter turnout considerably.

In 2019, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis welcomes President Donald Trump to West Palm Beach.

DeSantis and Florida’s Supreme Court lend Biden a hand

You can parse these Sunshine State developments any way you like, but there’s no version that’s good for Trump, the *********** presidential nominee in waiting.

He has previously

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knowing how unpopular it is with voters. So now, in his home state, Trump will face three not-good-for-him-but-great-for-Joe-Biden choices:

• Embrace the six-week ban he pilloried and tell his supporters to oppose the *********-rights protection amendment.

• Maintain his opposition to the six-week ban and support the *********-rights protection amendment, something he can’t do without alienating evangelical voters.

• Say that when he becomes president, he’ll override the six-week state ban with a federal ********* ban at 15 or 16 weeks, which would be a gift to President Biden’s reelection campaign.

Oh, Ron. If only you had planned this as a way of getting back at the guy who dubbed you “

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,” people might think you’re crafty.

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A six-week ********* ban in Florida is basically a complete ********* ban

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, Florida’s ************* Supreme Court decided that the state’s constitution doesn’t protect ********* rights. That put Florida’s existing 15-week ********* ban back in place.

The six-week ban that DeSantis

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was designed to start 30 days after a Supreme Court ruling upholding the 15-week ban. So the clock on that starts now.

For Floridians, a six-week ban is essentially a complete ban on *********, as most people don’t even know they’re pregnant before six weeks. It will also further limit ********* access in the South.

Lauren Brenzel, the campaign director for Floridians Protecting Freedom, which fought to get the ********* amendment on the state’s 2024 ballot,

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: “There is nowhere in the Southeast that can absorb Florida’s patient base. It’s simply not possible. That is simply an unmanageable volume of patients to try to offset to another state.”

Why doesn’t Biden sell Bibles? Joe Biden hasn’t targeted a judge’s daughter or sold a single ******. What a ******!

Trump is going to struggle to reckon with this Florida ballot issue

The real-world consequences of DeSantis’ ban will be felt long before the November election, and it will not be an issue Trump can sidestep.

Women in his state will have fully lost ********* rights, first thanks to Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court picks helping overturn Roe v. Wade and then thanks to DeSantis’ ********* ban, which was upheld by the conservatives he put on the state’s supreme court.

Former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd after speaking at a campaign event in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024.

Trump has tried ineffectively to straddle this issue,

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then criticizing DeSantis’ state ban, all while

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when it comes to a national ********* ban.

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, Trump was asked whether he would sign a 15-week federal ********* ban and he wouldn’t answer, saying only: “What I’ll do is negotiate, so that people are happy.”

Good luck with that, bubba.

Recent Fox News poll shows widespread support for ********* access

To summarize voters’ views on the issue, I’ll quote

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: “Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a record number of voters think ********* should be legal, with two-thirds favoring nationwide law guaranteeing access, according to a Fox News national survey.”

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That’s “guaranteeing” access, not banning it.

The poll found 59% of voters think ********* should be legal in all or most cases. And 54% oppose a 15-week federal ********* ban, with far more opposing more restrictive legislation.

Biden will still have an uphill ****** in Florida, but this changes

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Since Roe was overturned, this has been a losing issue for Republicans. Trump knows that, but he can’t figure out how to dance around it the way he does most things.

Thanks to the actions of DeSantis, the GOP primary opponent Trump vanquished and humiliated, that dance just got orders of magnitude more complicated.

And Florida – the seemingly bright-red state that features Mar-a-Lago and Trump himself – just got a whole lot more interesting.

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