TRUMP STRUGGLES TO UNITE GOP ON ABORTION. Early Monday morning, former President Donald Trump issued an anxiously awaited statement on abortion. It was anxiously awaited because the Republican Party has been floundering in the attempt to find some sort of unifying policy on abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade. In this case, because he, more than any other political figure, made the overturn of Roe possible, Trump felt a responsibility to lead the party toward a new position. His statement on Monday was an attempt to do that.

The first thing Trump did was to try to establish Republicans as the party of families. “Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong, thriving, and healthy American families,” Trump said in a video posted on Truth Social. “We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies — not harder.”