Former president Donald Trump, who won Florida in 2016 and 2020, may face a bigger challenge in winning the state in 2024 after the Florida Supreme Court upheld a 15-week ban on abortions signed by Governor Ron DeSantis.The April 1 decision means that a more restrictive ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy is set to go into effect in 30 days. In a separate ruling, the court also gave the green light for a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in Florida's constitution.
'Trump knows that abortion is an electoral drag on Republicans, which is why he's been downplaying the issue on the campaign trail,' Thomas Gift, an associate professor of political science and the director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London, told Newsweek.'That doesn't mean he's abandoning pro-life constituencies, but it does mean he doesn't want to make abortion a marquee plank of his policy agenda,' Gift added.
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