Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is out with a new ad that questions Donald Trump’s fitness to make quality Supreme Court appointments.
The ad plays footage of an interview Trump did on Meet the Press in 1999, during which he said he was “pro-choice in every respect”. The GOP frontrunner for president said during the first primary debate this election that he has since “evolved” on the issue, as John McCormack wrote in January:
During the first Republican presidential debate, Trump explained that he “evolved” on the issue at some unknown point in the last 16 years. “Friends of mine years ago were going to have a child, and it was going to be aborted. And it wasn’t aborted. And that child today is a total superstar, a great, great child. And I saw that. And I saw other instances,” Trump said. “I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.” When the Daily Caller’s Jamie Weinstein asked Trump if he would have become pro-life if that child had been a loser instead of a “total superstar,” Trump replied: “Probably not, but I’ve never thought of it. I would say no, but in this case it was an easy one because he’s such an outstanding person.”
There’s more about Trump and his judicial preferences. For example, he didn’t answer when asked if he would appoint a judge who disagreed with his views on eminent domain.
