Abortion, COVID, and Obamacare Highlighted in Trump-Harris Debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : Trump also said Harris's running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), says "abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine."
60% : Meanwhile, Harris was asked about her support for Medicare for All in 2017 -- which would have eliminated private insurance and established a government-run health plan -- and her decision 2 years later to introduce her own healthcare plan, which preserved a role for private insurance.
58% : "Abortion, Reproductive RightsHarris' support for abortion rights has been a central feature of her campaign.
56% : On Repealing ObamacareAt the debate, hosted by ABC News, co-moderator Linsey Davis asked Trump for his plans for the ACA.
50% : However, more than 140 people who worked for Trump were involved in the project, according to CNN.
49% : In 2023, Trump described himself as "the most pro-life president" in American history, as ABC moderator Davis pointed out.
48% : It's not very good today," adding that "If we can come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population, less money ... than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it, but until then, I'd run it as good as it can be run.
44% : More recently, he has said he will keep Obamacare unless Republicans can come up with something better.
43% : She disputed Trump's claim that the majority of people wanted Roe overturned and are happy with abortion laws being left to the states.
38% : Trump made a similar claim.
36% : She added that in addition to strengthening the ACA, the Biden administration allowed Medicare to negotiate drug prices -- something she said Trump promised but never achieved -- and capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month, and capped prescription drug costs for seniors at $2,000 annually.
34% : Yet, Trump also said he would vote to support a 6-week ban on abortion.
33% : Asked why women should trust him on abortion issues, Trump redirected his response, saying he felt an urge to support the 6-week ban after hearing the former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) -- suggest "that the baby will be born, and we will decide what to do with the baby.
31% : At that point, Trump said, it's "no longer abortion because the baby is born.
24% : "I don't mind if he has a certain view, but I think he was speaking for me," Trump said, adding that Harris' pledge to sign a reproductive rights bill into law would be "impossible" because Congress would never pass such a law.
23% : Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump clashed over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), reproductive rights, and Trump's response to the COVID-19 pandemic during Tuesday night's presidential debate in Philadelphia.
22% : Trump said that "Obamacare was lousy healthcare -- always was.
22% : In 2016, Trump campaigned on a pledge to repeal Obamacare.
22% : Trump disagreed.
19% : Trump said he has "nothing to do with Project 2025," a conservative playbook for the next Republican president.
17% : Trump was asked whether he would, as his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) has argued, veto a national abortion ban if Congress passed one.
13% : Harris also alleged that Trump would sign a national abortion ban into law, and according to "Project 2025, appoint a monitor to track pregnancies and miscarriages."
8% : "In an effort to highlight Harris' radical tendencies, Trump said that Harris "wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison ...

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