Trump Is 'Spooked' About Abortion Issue on State Ballot, Adopting 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Strategy, According to Florida Reporter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Burnett then played several video clips of Trump over the years "flip-flopping" on abortion, saying he was "very pro-choice" and later calling himself the "most pro-life president in history.
53% : " Trump has previously called Florida's 6-week ban "too harsh," and just a few days ago posted on social media that if he is re-elected, his administration "will be great for women and their reproductive rights.
44% : "Trump is a Florida resident," Burnett said.
42% : On August 8, Trump held a presser at his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, and was asked by a reporter about how he intended to vote on the ballot initiative commonly referred to as Amendment 4, which would amend Florida's Constitution to restrict lawmakers from banning abortions before viability.
41% : " The issue of abortion "continues to be a hornet's nest" for Trump, wrote Caputo, as the president who appointed the Supreme Court Justices responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade -- but who has "also pledged to veto any new abortion restrictions, vowed not to restrict access to abortion pills if re-elected, and his campaign now won't say if he would veto a federal bill protecting abortion rights.
37% : Part of the push for Trump to take this "don't ask, don't tell" policy, said Caputo, was coming from his evangelical supporters who just want him to win the election, because they liked his position better than the Democrats' views, and talking about abortion was not a "winning" issue for Trump.
35% : " As far as how well that was working for him, Caputo said it was "so far, so sort of good," and really it was "just an issue" that Trump "doesn't want to talk about."
28% : "He has not said how he will vote, but he does promise to address it...he makes it clear that voters may never know how Trump feels about the abortion ban.
27% : Those GOP midterm losses "spooked Trump so badly he began privately referring to abortion as 'the A-word,'" wrote Caputo. CNN anchor Erin Burnett interviewed Caputo Tuesday evening about his reporting, first playing the video clip of Trump's August 8 remarks.
19% : " By answering the reporter's question with a "I'll let you know soon" answer, said Burnett, showed Trump was "struggling" on this issue.

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