Trump's 'inconsistent' message on abortion may backfire: Analysts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Trump ignited fury from anti-abortion conservatives on Thursday after saying during an NBC interview that he believes Florida's six-week abortion ban "is too short" and he would be "voting that we need more than six weeks" in response to a question on whether he would be supporting a state ballot measure known as Amendment 4, which would enshrine abortion rights up 24 weeks of pregnancy.
47% : Support for restoring Roe v. Wade, which Trump has repeatedly boasted about helping to overturn by appointing conservative Supreme Court justices, was 61 percent among all women, according to the poll.
36% : "Trump is trying to triangulate on the position of abortion so that he can look like a centrist and capture both pro-life and pro-choice voters," Collins said in a text.
35% : "[Trump would] say different things in different venues [and] let his campaign then try to 'correct it' so that basically everybody gets to hear a little bit of what they want to hear," said Finney.
28% : "Political consultant Karen Finney, an ex-campaign spokesperson for former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, said during a CNN appearance later on Friday that Trump tried "to do the same thing" with regard to abortion during the 2016 election.
20% : Trump argued that it was "unacceptable" for "radical" Democrats to back "abortion in the ninth month," while also repeating false claims about blue states having laws "where you can actually execute the baby after birth.
19% : "Political analyst and Dillard University Professor Robert Collins told Newsweek that Trump was not being "clear" in his abortion messaging and predicted that the issue would hurt him in November, particularly among suburban voters who are women.

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