Opinion | How 10 minutes on abortion changed the race between Trump and Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : Thus, Trump went on to assert that Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz "says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine.
55% : Follow Ruth MarcusFollowIgnorance first: Leave aside the small point that Trump couldn't even get the vote count correct, twice citing "the genius and heart and strength of six Supreme Court justices" who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
45% : Harris said, looking at Trump.
41% : The reasoning in Roe was criticized by any number of legal scholars, including liberals, and perhaps Trump seized on that thread and embellished it.
34% : Trump explained: "Well, the reason I'm doing that vote is because ... they have abortion in the ninth month.
33% : This is the reality for women that Trump will never comprehend.
32% : Trump and Republican want to hijack these thankfully rare personal tragedies as an excuse for preventing almost all abortions.Which brings us to unprincipled.
31% : but I really didn't," Trump said of vice-presidential nominee JD Vance.
29% : She summoned her not-so-inner prosecutor to lay out the devastating case against Trump, using the testimony of his former aides and his own words to prove her point beyond a reasonable doubt.
29% : Once again, Trump made the astonishing claim that "every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, liberal, conservative, they all wanted this issue to be brought back to the states where the people could vote."
27% : Vowing to veto a ban would further inflame them, so Trump, unprincipled as ever, wants to split the difference, even if that position makes no logical sense.
25% : In fact -- not that facts matter to Trump -- two-thirds of the country opposes having Roe overturned.
23% : Now, in his leave-it-to-states incarnation, Trump claims he opposes a national abortion ban.
21% : "Northam's is the go-to comment seized on -- and distorted -- by those who claim, as Trump does, that Democrats are "radical" proponents of late-term or, somehow, "post-birth abortions."
18% : Leave aside, again, the small point that Trump was referring to former Virginia governor Ralph Northam, a pediatric neurosurgeon.
18% : But pressed by Davis about whether he would veto such a measure, Trump twice avoided answering -- despite the fact that his running mate had asserted Trump would.
18% : Trump is taking heat from antiabortion activists who are furious about his desperate campaign contortions to soften his stance on the issue.
17% : Trump showed himself to be ignorant, dishonest and unprincipled.
13% : Trump smartly pressed her on that point, Harris parried with his own waffling about vetoing a national ban, and the moderators failed to follow up.

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