{"id":2216517,"date":"2024-04-09T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-says-trump-was-accommodating-his-political-survival-with-abortion-statement\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:43:10","slug":"pelosi-says-trump-was-accommodating-his-political-survival-with-abortion-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-says-trump-was-accommodating-his-political-survival-with-abortion-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi suggests Trump&#8217;s abortion statement aimed at securing his political survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosi-says-trump-was-accommodating-his-political-survival-with-abortion-statement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2216517&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused ex-President Donald Trump of prioritizing \u2063his &#8220;political\u200c survival&#8221; in his recent remarks on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-introduces-bill-allowing-fathers-to-prevent-an-abortion\/\" title=\"Tennessee Introduces Bill Allowing Fathers To Prevent An Abortion\">abortion restrictions<\/a>. \u2062Trump, \u2062in a\u200b video posted on Monday, expressed\u200d pride \u2064in overturning Roe\u200b v. Wade but advocated\u200d for state-level \u2062decisions on \u2064abortion limits. Pelosi criticized Trump&#8217;s stance, emphasizing\u200b the importance \u200dof a clear\u200c position on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-leaders-to-meet-with-trump-on-agenda\/\" title=\"GOP Leaders to Meet With Trump on Agenda\">pro-life issues<\/a>. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beyonce-rewrites-lyrics-of-dolly-parton-classic-jolene-for-new-country-album\/\" title=\"Beyonc\u00e9 puts her touch on Dolly Parton's 'Jolene' for upcoming country album\">revised summary effectively captures<\/a> the\u200b key points \u200cabout Nancy\u2064 Pelosi&#8217;s criticism of Donald Trump&#8217;s abortion stance. It highlights Pelosi&#8217;s\u200c view \u200don Trump&#8217;s \u2063political motivations\u200b and his \u200dstance on\u2064 abortion\u200c limits. Well done!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nancy-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-CA) accused former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> of looking out for himself with his recent comment on abortion limits, arguing he was focused on his \u201cpolitical survival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2957228\/trump-draws-line-in-sand-abortion-as-republicans-try-find-footing-pivotal-subject\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"stated in a video\">stated in a video<\/a> posted on Monday that while he was proud to take responsibility for overturning <em>Roe v. Wade,<\/em> he believed that decisions on abortion limits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2957228\/trump-draws-line-in-sand-abortion-as-republicans-try-find-footing-pivotal-subject\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>ought to be left up to the states<\/a>. Pelosi, who said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>abortion<\/a> access will play a major role in the November elections, argued that Trump \u201ceither is stupid\u201d or \u201che thinks the rest of us are stupid\u201d in making his new comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then, the way the press wrote it up just cracked me up because it said, \u2018Donald Trump believes that states\u2026.\u2019 He doesn\u2019t believe anything,\u201d Pelosi said on MSNBC\u2019s <em>Morning Joe<\/em>. \u201cHe believes in his political survival, and that\u2019s what he is trying to accommodate. But you can\u2019t be a little bit pro-life. You\u2019re either there or you\u2019re not there, and people see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former House speaker also predicted that abortion will affect the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2024 elections<\/a> in the same vein that the 2022 midterm elections did, which were held a few months after <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was overturned. Republicans were anticipating \u201ca red wave\u201d in the midterm elections, but they ended up winning the House by a small majority and failed to win back the Senate majority.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi added that Florida voters are \u201crevved up\u201d about the topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-chair-condemns-biden-abortion-policy\/\" title=\"RNC chair condemns Biden abortion policy\">abortion access<\/a> and that it would be \u201ca big issue\u201d in the campaign for residents. It comes after the Biden campaign said last week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/biden-campaign-florida-winnable-2024-rcna145863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>it sees the Sunshine State as \u201cwinnable\u201d<\/a> for the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Many Republicans, including former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/2957973\/mike-pence-slams-trumps-states-rights-abortion-stance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mike Pence<\/a> and Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2958326\/donald-trump-sen-lindsey-graham-abortion-disagreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Lindsey Graham<\/a> (R-SC), have condemned Trump over his preference to leave abortion access up to the states. Pence, a critic of the former president since leaving the White House, said that Trump had betrayed anti-abortion voters who voted for him in 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Trump has opted not to focus on abortion limits in his campaign for president, the Biden administration has made the topic a priority on the campaign trail. The president\u2019s campaign released a testimony video of a couple who was unable to abort their child on Monday, saying that Trump was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion\u00a0was listed as the top subject for 12% of voters ahead of the 2024 elections, and 52% said it was a \u201cvery important issue but not the most important,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2907515\/abortion-top-issue-2024-1-in-8-voters-new-poll-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according to a poll<\/a> from the healthcare policy think tank KFF.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused ex-President Donald Trump of prioritizing self-interest in his abortion stance, citing his &#8220;political survival.&#8221; Trump&#8217;s recent video claim, posted Monday, expressed pride in overturning Roe v. Wade while suggesting a balance between state and federal abortion limits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2216518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-09-Apr-2024-10-44-AM-5280-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-09-Apr-2024-10-44-AM-5280-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}