This is the new MAGA strategy. Trump is heading for the hills on abortion, saying it’s a state issue so he doesn’t have to talk about it. Kari Lake is running for Senate and she doesn’t want to be weighed down by being pro-life so she’s now using the rhetoric of “choice” when it comes to pregnancy, not life.
This is a political blunder because she will not gain one vote and she will likely lose thousands of pro-lifers. More importantly is that pro-lifers make up most of the campaign workers who go door to door and call and donate. Most importantly, she loses her soul.
I get that abortion has been used against us in recent elections. But the way to deal with that is not going the whole, “I’m personally pro-life” dodge.
Pro-lifers have never really been at home in either party. Democrats despise us and many in Republican leadership condescend to us. This shift by Kari Lake is sickening. She and her advisors are guessing pro-lifers have nowhere else to go so she’s going to attempt to thread the needle on this issue. The truth is that you either support life or you don’t.
But we are going to be seeing a lot more of this, I’d bet.
Michael Knowles has the whole story.
April 17, 2024 at 9:35 am
Our election process has lost much credibility in recent years. The unprecedented changes in election law in 2020, rank choice voting, and the push toward undermining the electoral college are very real threats to our Republic.
As to candidates taking the position of leaving abortion to the states, perhaps they will ‘grow in office’ as many stealth liberal ‘Republicans’ did in the past. 🙂
Slavery was left to the states, too, until it wasn’t. Getting solid conservative candidates elected and maintaining our integrity as pro-life voters is not mutually exclusive. Don’t fall for the divide and conquer schemes of the left.
April 17, 2024 at 4:19 pm
Queue the Living Colour hit song from the late ’80s, “Cult of Personality”.