If there’s been a recurring theme of Republican strategists heading into November, it’s this: flip the script. From the Senate and House fundraising arms to consultants and the RNC, the experts agree — silence on abortion is a political death sentence.
“If you’re just hiding under your desk, hoping the shrapnel won’t hit you,” GOP pollster and former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway said recently, “you’re not listening to [reason]. … If it took 50 years to overturn Roe v. Wade,” she insisted, “it’s going to take more than 50 minutes, 50 hours or 50 weeks to explain to people what that means — and, more importantly, what it doesn’t mean — and to move hearts and minds.”
If she’s counseling a client, Conway is frank. “I just believe these candidates should be forward-facing, tell you what they believe, why they believe that, and stick with it.” Just as important, she and other prominent Republicans say, is making sure conservatives tell voters what Democrats believe. Accuse them of extremism, she urges, because they’re actually guilty of it. “They don’t seem to have any exceptions,” Conway argued, in a country where most Americans would draw the line for abortion somewhere early in the second trimester.
Joe Biden’s party is shockingly vulnerable here, and they know it. Asked if the president supported any restrictions on abortion last month, his campaign staff deflected. Does he have a preferred “cutoff” like 24 weeks, the reporter asked? “The president believes that we should restore the protections of Roe,” the spokesman replied, which allowed abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. “He’s been pretty clear, pretty consistent on that,” the official insisted. “So we aren’t going to fall on any traps that Republicans may want to lay ….”
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