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Harris Does What Biden Couldn't at Debate, Destroys Trump on Abortion

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Donald Trump's record on abortion has become a political problem, even if he hasn't settled on a fix.

Kamala Harris slammed Trump for packing the Supreme Court with conservative justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade .

Trump flailed in his response, attempting to pivot away from abortion and toward Harris and Biden ’s efforts to win student loan forgiveness.

Project 2025 — written by Trump ’s former and current advisers to be the playbook for his next term in office — also fantasizes of enforcing the Comstock Act , which Trump ’s own lawyer has identified as a de facto federal abortion ban already “on the books.” Trump ’s refusal to take a position at Tuesday ’s debate reinforces the idea that the equivocation is less about an unwillingness to take a position, and more a transparent attempt to muddy the waters so thoroughly that voters can’t figure out what his position actually is..