Trump comes out against Florida's abortion rights ballot measure after conservative backlash

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "Meanwhile, anti-abortion activists, who have provided critical support to Trump during his three presidential runs, piled on.
54% : The backlash from anti-abortion advocates was fierce after Trump's interview with NBC News, with some warning that the Republican presidential nominee was risking losing support from a key bloc of the party's base.
47% : During the interview with NBC News, Trump said, "I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks," when asked how he would vote on the ballot measure.
47% : "If Donald Trump loses in November, it will be his improvisational approach to abortion that alienated the pro-life community that costs him victory," conservative radio host Erick Erickson said.Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life -- which has helped organize tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists, mostly on college campuses -- wrote Thursday on X: "My phone is blowing up with @SFLAction volunteers who no longer will door knock for President Trump if this is not corrected.
44% : Alarmed by what she saw, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the influential anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, called Trump on Thursday to ask for clarity on his comments, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.
40% : "The clash put Trump and Republicans in uncharted waters, facing the first presidential election in half a century without Roe v. Wade on the books to protect abortion rights.
32% : On Friday, Trump said, once again, that women need "more time" than six weeks to decide whether to have an abortion, but that the "Democrats are radical" and he couldn't back the amendment.
32% : Abortion foes are caught in their own bind over whether to abandon Trump or to support him in the hope that Republicans will win in November and continue to pursue nationwide abortion restrictions, despite the former president's claims to the contrary.
31% : I've disagreed with that right from the early primaries when I heard about it, I disagreed with it," Trump said in comments to Fox News.
30% : Trump told her that he didn't state a position on an amendment on his home state's ballot this fall.
28% : "In response to Trump's announcement Friday about how he'll vote on the amendment, the Harris campaign issued a statement saying that Trump "will vote to uphold an abortion ban so extreme it applies before many women even know they are pregnant" and said if he's elected, he will "limit access to birth control, threaten access to fertility treatments and ban abortion nationwide, with or without Congress."
23% : And Trump, who has bragged about appointing three of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe, is still struggling to navigate it.
21% : "The governor's wife, Casey DeSantis, also weighed in, saying the initiative "would open the door to taxpayer funded abortions" and added, "We must spread the word and vote NO on 4!"Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign said Trump is lying about his shifts on abortion and his pro-IVF rhetoric.

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