Trump successfully navigated abortion in the 2024 campaign

Published November 21, 2024 2:00am ET



President-elect Donald Trump managed to thread the needle on abortion as he won a second term, though the challenge of governing lies ahead.

Trump took credit for appointing most of the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 but sought to insulate his campaign and the Republican Party from the resulting political fallout. 

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