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Trump Is Following the GOP’s Abortion Playbook to a T. Why Isn’t It Working?

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Frida Ghitis: Donald Trump made false claims that some states permit abortion after birth.

She says the GOP ticket represents the mainstream while Democrats veered to the extreme, a tactic used in the anti-abortion playbook.

Ghitis says calling Democrats extreme does n’t work when Trump ’s GOP is aligned with a movement that endorses bans.

The more Americans have a sense of how abortions in America work, the harder Trump ’s tales of extremism are to swallow.

Public opinion itself has shifted in the aftermath of Dobbs , with a record high number of Americans supporting abortion rights.

Trump 's real hope is that voters simply don’t care that much about reproductive rights.

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