Trump boasts he's 'proud' about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade, the issue that has become ballot-box poison for Republicans
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- Ex-President Trump during his Fox News town hall touted his role in helping overturn Roe v. Wade.
- "I did it, and I'm proud to have done it," the former president said during the forum.
- The issue of abortion has become an electoral albatross for the Republican Party.
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted his role in helping overturn Roe v. Wade, saying he was "proud" of the judicial appointments that led to the issue of abortion going back to the states.
During a Fox News town hall, which countered a CNN Republican presidential debate featuring Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and the former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley at the same time, Trump spoke out about abortion access, an issue that has become an electoral albatross for Republican candidates across the country since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.
"For 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I'm proud to have done it," the former president said, misstating the number of years as Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. "Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle."
President Joe Biden's presidential campaign posted on Wednesday a clip of Trump's statement on X, writing that the former president was bragging about his effort to restrict abortion rights in the country.
Trump's three successful Supreme Court nominations of conservatives Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett led to the 5-4 Supreme Court decision that led to Roe v. Wade's demise.