Chuck Todd breaks down how, despite repeated indications that support for former President Trump and anti-abortion policies puts them out of touch with most voters, the GOP’s response thus far has been to stick by both.
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#MTP #Abortion #Trump
It’s going to be “let me see your papers” 📄. Republicans are taking a page right out of Hitler’s Germany. #SaveAmerica #VoteBlue #VoteFreedom
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America can’t and refuses to help the children that live in poverty.
It’s not a moral question for them. They won the issue in court and now don’t have another issue to replace it. Their solution is more of the same because they simply have no other unifying issue.
The heart is not developed by 6 weeks, so there is never a heartbeat
If you continue to ignore the fact that, men and women, of all political persuasions actually believe in access to abortion, including those who would say they are pro life. I think some of the laws in place in some states are or will, mean some people will move to a state with different laws.
We have to understand that the GOP is working to rig elections every way possible. They’ve given up on democracy.
Trump and abortion aren’t done yet, they’ll bury the Republicans for many election cycles to come, RIP.
If Red States keep it up…they will have NO teachers…NO hospitals…No voters!
More smoke and mirrors, abortion ain’t important now.
Perhaps the Republicans should change their mascot from an elephant to a lemming?
Brillant! Republicans – thank you! You’re just brillant!
Their heads are up their own behinds. GOP chairwoman is out of her mind if she thinks it’s a messaging issue. Dems are defining them, they are showing us who they are.
God said we must tell the truth. The entire leadership and command staff of the Contra Costa County fire department and Walnut Creek CA. police department must be fired ASAP and if found guilty imprisoned. These are two large well funded hate groups. The CCCFD will frame innocent people of color by starting fires and setting up minorities. The WCPD will lie-on and harass Blacks, Hispanics, Filipinos, Indians and Pakistanis.
The devil is a liar.
Jesus is the Truth the Way and the Life.
Absolutely nuts that America is being so controlled by a minority who aren’t even in power. But hopefully the Republicans will drive themselves off that cliff – with no seatbelts!
Abortion is not going to hurt Republicans nationally. It’s the same thing the Media said heading into 2022 Elections and still won the House.
DUMP AND DEFEAT CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE AND JAIL CRIMINAL RTRUMP AND CRONIES
What Liberals don’t and never will understand is:
1: There are already a ton of things you’re not allowed to do with your body, such as physically hurting someone with your body, yelling Fire in a crowded room with your body, jaywalking in some places with your body, trespassing with your body, I can go on and on. As long as there are laws, you’ll never have full control over what you do with your body because laws are meant to keep your body from doing stuff.
2: Dems are secretly Pro Life. They need the Repubs to be the bad guys so that the Dems can use topics such as abortion as a tool for votes. Do you really think that getting rid of the issue that helps them get elected is in their best favor? No. Dems want anti abortion politicians and policies because being against them gets them voted in. They don’t want something that helps them get elected to stop existing.
3: The biggest advocates for Pro Life are Big corporations. They will never be anti abortion because being anti abortion means anti humans and anti population. Big companies need people to keep being born and keep existing so they can use them to make money. Less people=less money. Think about that the next time these woke big corporations virtue signal during Pride, women’s, or black history month. They just cater to you because you’re an un-ventured group who hasn’t been marketed to. They always want new people to market to, which makes them secretly Pro Life.
4: Because big corporations run the country, that means they also own politicians, especially your beloved Pro Choice Dems. But those pro choice Dems have to do the bidding of those corporations. The same corporations that are secretly Pro Life. Which makes the Dems also Pro Life because they need to make their big corporation donors happy.
Dems don’t care about abortion rights. Take your anger out on them instead. Don’t waste it on the Republicans. Dems are complicit and lazy because it gives them power anyway.
That b*tch said abortion is still an issue. We’ve had Roe vs Wade since 1973. They just don’t want us to exercise our right to have one.
Secular conservatives and moderates are HUGE numbers. Republicans still don’t get it. Their base will vote for them regardless, but too many of the ones I mentioned WILL (sadly) vote dem. The Republican Party needs to focus on fiscal and international issues.
I was at one time angry with Mitch McConnell over his SCOTUS nomination hypocrisy fiasco but now, it appears that he has breathed life into “be careful what you wish for”.
People have been saying for at least a decade that the GOP is screwing themselves over in electoral matters yet they keep getting nearly half the vote nationally. I sure would like to see these so-called electoral issues actually matter…
Stop calling those people republicans theyre fascists
Buckwheat says that Men is From Mars and Women is From Venus…All those other genders you pulled out of Uranus!
Vote Libertarian.
Nobody likes racist republicans but old brainwashed boomers 😂the dumbest generation of all-time😂
Republicans don’t care what the voters want that’s why they want a dictatorship
Rona McDaniel got a face lift.
Idaho will get it’s own Gestapo to please the GOP.
So how is ok for Republicans to push their narrow racist views onto Democrats, how is it ok for them to take away the rights of others?? Its really messed-up in the USA. Hopefully people will vote.
Fake news
Looking at the REPUBLICAN PARTY today is a total disaster, ex president ARRESTED, pro- GOP Supreme Court judge accepting gifts from a rich GOP donor, the Republicans have taken the right from AMERICAN women to choose when to have a family, REPUBLICANS in Tennessee outraged BEHAVIOR towards BLACK members in the house of representatives, THE GOP PLATFORM TODAY IS MORE GUNS and LESS HUMAN RIGHTS .
You better think twice about voting for Republicans. They going after ABORTIONS……..WHAT’S NEXT.
The left is driving the whole country off a cliff so I guess at the bottom of that cliff everyone will be still tangled up in a huge mess regardless of political affiliation.
Ari…Let ‘em.
Corruption control even their appointed judges are corrupt!!! Don’t be fooled!!! Their a party of death!!! Force children to be born so they can be slaughtered in their class rooms!!! THE PARTY OF DEATH!!! NOT LIFE!!!
Abortion k-ills thousands of human beings a day. I don’t want defenseless human beings to be k-illed with fists, knives, guns, cars, medications, abortifacients, poisons or medical instruments. Abortion supporters cannot say the same thing.
As a woman who only went out and voted because of the abortion issue, I can assure you this issue is very important. I will not let my daughters and little sister have less rights than I did.
Our unborn daughters and sond need the same basic right not to be k-illed that all other innocent human beings have.
If u r against abortion then don’t have one, but u have NO RIGHT to tell me what I can or cannot do with my own body. And if you don’t have a uterus, YOU HAVE NO SAY AT ALL!!!
By your “logic” child abuse needs to be legal because the government has NO RIGHT to tell you want you can or cannot do with your own body (hands/fists). OH WAIT – child abuse AND abortion aren’t about someone doing something to or with their body – it’s about harming or k-illing ANOHTER defenseless human being. Hope that helps you understand why abortion needs to be illegal.
between what just happened in tennessee, and 1/6, and criminal trump, who in their right mind (unless you hate America) would vote republican?
The economy… most Democrats support the k-illing of thousdands of human beings a day via abortion.. Defund the police.
I’m sad to say the GOP has become America’s Taliban. I once was happy to vote for Republican candidates and often did. Since 2016, I have not voted for a single GOP candidate at any level, and can not fathom doing so anytime soon. It will likely be another decade before I consider any republican candidate again.
2024 is going to be an utter disaster for GOP.
The GOP can’t back down on abortion because they have always used abortion as a wedge issue to trap unsuspecting voters into promoting the GOPs fascist agenda of greed and scorn for the poor, the sick, the working class, and anyone who is not a white male of Anglo-Saxon extraction. And people who are anti-abortion are not just a fringe group.
Donald Trump hid in a bunker because of a protest I don’t vote for cowards. American cannot afford a president who hides in the bunker because he is scared.
Like Biden….
Too late GOP, you’re done and trumps off to a supermax
What is unclear about the “messaging issue” on abortion????? The GOP are extremely clear in that they want to completely destroy abortion for any reason. The GOP want to monitor women´s menstruation cycles. GOP want to check on every single miscarriage to see if it was really abortion. And, there are GOP who want to have abortion declared a capital crime!!!!!! This is all recorded in laws drawn up as bills to be voted on. So, once again I ask, where is the the problem with the messaging.
I don’t think Republicans are too worried about losing the next election or two because they think long-term. They have virtually unlimited funding as well as full-time, dedicated propaganda media working for them. When they lose an election, they’ll just issue some garbage statement like “We strayed from our conservative principles” like they did in 2008. Then they’ll start planning for their next, probably final, attempt to destroy our republic and replace it with an authoritarian oligarchy. They push the envelope, learn from it, then try again.
We have to push for our youth to STAY engaged in every election! If democrats were smart. They would send millions $$$ across the country weekly to recruit new young voters. Put it in ads, have it on buses, post on all social media the crucial shift. That’s the one thing I don’t understand with current democrats. When Obama was President you saw his administration engage with the young voters all throughout his presidency not just when it came time to vote.
Rich lobbyists are why Republicans are being insane pay them enough they will say and do anything
Keep Trump, dump the bible thumpers.
Vote Democrat.
It’s as I’ve said for a long time – Rpublicans are out of touch with modern society. They’re atavisms.
I love that they are so intent on losing.
Sun Tzu: “Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake.”
Let’s vote every Republican out of office now!!!!!!!!
And Republicans can’t figure out why they’ve lost seven out of the last eight popular votes
Idaho, way to go. You just completely violated the constitution. You can’t restrict travel. This is a free country. America needs to stomp out the new fascist conservatism in all its forms.
Let’s get one thing straight, the GOP don’t view abortion as a moral fight, they view it as a fight for power. If it were a moral fight it’d be left to an individual having to make the decision.
I’m reminded of the GOP-led school board in Elizabeth, CO, that resigned en masse because their own Republican constituents didn’t think they were anti-CRT enough. This is ridiculous!! Florida is now considered a sanctuary state by REPUBLICANS because their restrictive abortion policies…aren’t restrictive enough!! WTF!
George Orwellian Party is going to “ban elections”… just wait.
The GOP thinks they can rule by fiat. And if they haven’t learned they’re wrong yet, I can’t imagine what will teach them.
The fact that the GOP is an unwavering monolith when it comes to such losing issues speaks volumes. As a whole they lack the ability to even attempt to change or modify their stance on things like abortion, reasonable gun regulation, and their bullying of LGBTQ+ and immigrants. Their arrogance that God is on their side paired with being morally and intellectually corrupt does not bode well for them.
Democrats love to hack up unborn babies and sell their juices to China so they can experiment with it…
Democrat hack Chuck Todd trying to advise on what are Republicans’ best interest? Now there’s a good one.
Funny when religious zealots say “We can’t put our head in the sand”
The only time they take it out of the sand is to stick it firmly in their colon.
The entire republican party is a cult at this point. Everyone else is fed up with the republican culture wars.
If you want a change then vote!!!!
Here’s the message “keep your laws off my whoha”
Young people don’t want to be controlled Republicans
Young people don’t want to die in the streets or schools Republicans
Ban abortion. Your message seems clear to me
If the GOP cared so much for children, they would support banning the weapons that are killing children. You don’t get to pick and choose which children should be saved. Hypocrite much?
Republicans aren’t listening because they are panicking, they are already at the edge of the cliff. They’re scared stupid and don’t understand the thinking that got them here won’t save them.
Instead of changing their mind they will drive off the cliff. Because they are ignorant, stubborn and selfish.
We need a two party system to preserve out democracy. Therefore we need a new, viable, rational, truly conservative party to replace the GOP.
Please let them!!!! Lol
Don’t help them let them, Todd.
That abortion issue is ghastly people are horrified enough by puppy mills when the b*tchs are often beaten starved confined living in filth and forced to breed their offspring not guaranteed good homes either often born sickly because their Mother was abused etc. Not okay for dogs okay for women though? Trump should comment on the DeSantis/Disney situation too imo he has experience in real estate disputes business and politics lives in Florida himself and many expect DeSantis will be the nominee if Trump is not so he’s direct competition maybe he’s saving his opinion for future debates.
When ever the Repubs bring up abortion they say ” They’re murdering babies and having abortions at 8 months” I mean they are absurd, Kelly’s ads where saying Janet P was a baby murdering commie LOL I mean these Repubs are crazy bordering on mentally ill
You’re making the assumption that the GOP cares about votes. They’ve rigged systems such that their policies will be resistant to the popular vote at the statewide or nationwide level
When Traitor Don goes down the whole house of cards falls apart. This fear keeps them in line just as it did in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia.
Lol, Ronna McDaniel “we cannot allow the Democrats to define Republicans”…um, no. Republican’s are the ones defining Republican’s as the backwards thinking, obstructionist goons that they are and they’re doubling down on it.
desantis – santos 2024
the maga chacha ticket
Turns out base matters. They call it baby murder. What did you expect?
People post about their lunch and dinners. People will tell on themselves.
All 30 1st-world nations—28 in Europe, #5 Australia, and #1 Canada—not only provide FREE Universal Health Care, they pay for all and regulate pharmaceutical drug costs, while 3rd-world ‘Murka lumps along with an unhealthy population of nitwits addicted to a weekly average of 63 hours of the planet’s worst TeeWee deliberately calibrated for their 6th-grade comprehensions.
Ya’ can’t fix stupid.
Many people die each year due to the lack of routine medical care either from no insurance or high deductibles. If you are pro-life, stop being a hypocrite and support free universal healthcare.
Book bans, crazy anti abortion laws that eventually endanger the mother, welfare for corporations, now they want to defund any federal entity that threatens Trump, undying worship of an authoritarian figure, etc, etc. You’ve got to be mentally ill to be a Republican or even vote Republican.
Their Frankenstein is now out of the lab
Voters becoming more intelligent is bad for the gop. The gop needs Butt licking voters for success😂.
I am pretty sure the GOP strategy for abortion rights is the same as with guns. Hide and hope it goes away and people forget.
My bet is the GOP will try to ban Gen Z from voting next. Don’t ever trust the GOP.
Oh sweetie GOP is already over the cliff!
Hope they have parachutes!
gop is stuck between a rock and a hard place. they cant win their primaries without the far right but by embracing them they scare off the rest of the voters
Remove Red from the House… Vote Blue in 24 🇺🇸🇺🇸
The lying, authoritarian, narcissistic Republicans can’t drive over a cliff soon enough for me. We need some ethical, adult representatives of a different party that has not been hijacked by an authoritarian leader like the Republicans have. We need two distinctly different political parties for our democracy to function. The system has been broken by neanderthal Republicans and their base who came out of their caves when Trump made it honorable to hate, attack and murder so your group could control everyone and everything in America. Make women be your breeding property by stripping all rights from them. Sorry jerks, women won’t go back to being chattel.😡
Yonose porque mensaje lalottery merepiento porque eso metrago todo esto
That’s what they get for jumping on the bed!!
Now, Wisconsin, VOTE. OUT. YON. YONNSON.
Just saying…
These Christian group nuts. In Israel where the Bible was written Abortion is legal. They even have universal heathcare and paid medical fraternity leave.
Voters – especially the Republican voters are finally opening their eyes and ears. Repubs should be afraid – very afraid.