Democrats Focus on Vance’s Abortion Stance After Trump Spends Months Trying To Put the Issue Behind Him

The senator supported a national abortion ban that had no exceptions for rape or incest.

AP/Michael Conroy, file
President Trump and his running mate, Senator Vance, in Ohio in 2022. AP/Michael Conroy, file

MILWAUKEE — President Trump has spent months trying to put the issue of abortion behind him, saying it belongs to the states and the federal government has no say. In choosing Senator Vance as his running mate, though, all of that work may have been for nothing. Mr. Vance’s views on abortion were quickly seized on by Democrats.

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