Womansplaining: The US election and abortion rights - The Oxford Student

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Ultimately, Trump was more convincing to the electorate.
41% : It was an issue that many Americans cared about a lot, but not enough to sway them away from Trump.
36% : Abortion was projected to be one of the key winning issues for the Democrats.
34% : Trump vehemently denied this, saying that the decision should be left up to individual states.
33% : With the latest research showing that 63% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and Trump famously taking credit for the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Democrats were hopeful that the issue of abortion access would swing the election in their direction.
28% : Another explanation is that voters did indeed support abortion access, but disagreed that Trump was anti-abortion.
26% : A CBS exit poll showed that among those in Nevada who voted for Trump but also to expand abortion access, more than half said that the economy was the most important issue.
15% : Harris' campaign argument that Trump would try to put a national abortion ban in place failed to resonate with most voters outside the Democratic Party.
11% : In the presidential debate, Harris accused Trump of planning to authorise a national ban on abortion if he were to be re-elected, and consistently repeated this claim during her campaign.

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