{"id":2234778,"date":"2024-05-01T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T20:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-goes-after-trump-as-floridas-new-abortion-ban-goes-into-effect-enough-with-the-gaslighting\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T20:49:05","slug":"harris-goes-after-trump-as-floridas-new-abortion-ban-goes-into-effect-enough-with-the-gaslighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-goes-after-trump-as-floridas-new-abortion-ban-goes-into-effect-enough-with-the-gaslighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Takes Aim at Trump Over Florida&#8217;s New Abortion Ban: No More Gaslighting"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fharris-goes-after-trump-as-floridas-new-abortion-ban-goes-into-effect-enough-with-the-gaslighting%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=2234778&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>Vice President Kamala Harris passionately criticized former President Donald Trump for his role in\u200c Florida&#8217;s new abortion \u200bban. Trump&#8217;s\u2063 wavering stance on abortion, including taking credit\u2062 for the Supreme Court&#8217;s 2022 decision on Roe v.\u200c Wade and causing discontent\u200d among anti-abortion Republicans, has stirred controversy. Harris, along with President Joe \u200cBiden and Democrats, has prioritized reproductive rights for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-bidens-envoy-threatens-brazil-not-to-question-electronic-vote\/\" title=\"Report: Biden\u2019s envoy threatens Brazil not to question electronic vote\">upcoming general election<\/a>, aiming to \u200dmake even states like Florida winnable for the president. Harris, a prominent advocate for \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/argentina-church-asks-lawmakers-to-search-their-hearts-ahead-of-abortion-vote\/\" title=\"Argentina church asks lawmakers to search their hearts ahead of abortion vote\">abortion rights<\/a> in Biden&#8217;s campaign, condemned Trump for the surge in new abortion bans across states post the \u200dDobbs decision, emphasizing the extreme nature of Florida&#8217;s \u200cnew law.  <\/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>Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> heartily attacked former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday for paving the way to the state\u2019s new abortion ban.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has vacillated on abortion in recent months, both taking credit for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Supreme-Court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Supreme Court<\/a>\u2018s 2022 decision that rolled back the federal abortion protections included in <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and rankling anti-abortion Republicans by saying he would not sign a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-claims-a-national-abortion-ban-is-possible-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned\/\" title=\"McConnell Claims A National Abortion Ban Is \u2018Possible\u2019 If Roe V. Wade Is Overturned\">national abortion ban<\/a> into law during a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Harris, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\">Joe Biden<\/a>, and Democrats have made it their top social issue ahead of the general election. Democratic operatives and Biden campaign officials have told reporters that they believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abortion-ballot-initiative-in-florida-has-enough-signatures-but-faces-court-battle\/\" title=\"Florida's abortion ballot initiative has sufficient signatures, yet confronts legal dispute\">reproductive rights make<\/a> even states like Florida, which Trump won in both 2016 and 2020, winnable for the president in November.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has emerged as Biden\u2019s top abortion rights surrogate this cycle, and the latest stop on her nationwide reproductive freedom tour brought her to Jacksonville, Florida on Wednesday, hours after the state\u2019s six-week abortion ban went into effect.<\/p>\n<p>Harris opened her remarks by directly blaming Trump for the more than 20 new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>abortion<\/a> bans enacted states after the <em>Dobbs <\/em>decision, claiming that Florida\u2019s new law is \u201cso extreme it applies before many women even know they are pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extremists who wrote this ban either don\u2019t know how a woman\u2019s body works or they simply don\u2019t care,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-find-a-filibuster-they-can-get-behind\/\" title=\"Democrats Find a Filibuster They Can Get Behind\">vice president declared<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis truly is a healthcare crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect, and, by the way, that is not a fact he hides. In fact, he brags about it,\u201d she added. \u201cThe contrast in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>this election<\/a> could not be more clear. Basically, under Donald Trump, it would be fair game for women to be monitored and punished by the government. Whereas Joe Biden and I have a different view. We believe the government should never come between a woman and her doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris also claimed that if Trump wins, he would sign a national abortion ban into law, despite his public comments on the topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough with the gaslighting because we all know if Donald Trump Trump gets the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban. And how do we know? Well let\u2019s take a look at the evidence and follow the facts,\u201d she continued. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congress<\/a> tried to pass a national abortion ban in 2017, and the then-President Trump endorsed it in 2017 and promised to sign it if it got to his desk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019s remarks can be seen in full below.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p data-video_id=\"uyfDDCrpTkU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reproductive Freedom Rally with Vice President Kamala Harris\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uyfDDCrpTkU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris strongly criticized former President Donald Trump, attributing responsibility for Florida&#8217;s new abortion ban to him. Trump&#8217;s stance on abortion has been inconsistent, claiming credit for the roll-back of federal protections in Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court in 2022 while also upsetting anti-abortion Republicans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2234779,"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\/05\/AP24122697062962.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234778","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\/05\/AP24122697062962.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234778","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\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}