Former Vice President Mike Pence dismissed former President Donald Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v. Wade contributed to the GOP’s disappointing efficiency in final 12 months’s midterm elections.
“The previous president really steered that we misplaced elections within the midterms as a result of we overturned Roe v. Wade, I don’t imagine that for a second,” Pence instructed Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt on Thursday.
“I feel while you stand on the suitable to life and also you stand with precept and compassion and exhibit a willingness to place our arms not simply across the unborn, however round newborns, round ladies in disaster pregnancies we will proceed to win hearts and minds.”
Pence’s feedback arrive months after Trump declared that the GOP’s efficiency in final 12 months’s election wasn’t his fault whereas pointing to the “abortion problem” as being “poorly handed” by Republicans.
His political advocacy group Advancing American Freedom, in the meantime, has gone additional by backing federal laws to bar abortion “after about six weeks” and to “set up fetal personhood,” The New York Instances famous.
Social media customers on X (previously Twitter) mocked Pence over his midterm elections take and claimed that “he’s in denial, still.”
