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On a recent day, one dominated by Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, achieving a lopsided debate victory over Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., former President Donald Trump announced that he would veto a national abortion ban if it were to be passed by Congress and make it to his desk.
That is the coup de grace for the Harris campaign.
Harris has been running on the abortion issue, conjuring up fears that Trump, once he’s re-elected, would agree with the right wing of the GOP and sign a national abortion ban.
The former president has danced around the issue in the past, arguing that no such bill could ever pass in the current environment so the question of what he would do if it did, was academic.
But now Trump has firmly and finally committed to a veto such legislation, were it to make its way to his desk.
As is fitting for Halloween, Democrats have told ghost stories that Trump would kill the right to choose abortion with a stroke of his pen.
Now, that issue has been laid to rest.
The Harris people will still peddle horror stories about women who died while crossing state lines to find an abortion clinic, but the real issue — a national ban — is over.
Abortion should be over as an issue anyway.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) — with its decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022).
In the following year there were over one million abortions performed in the United States.
Half of these were medical via the "morning after pill" nobody seemingly wants to ban.
130,000 pregnant women crossed state lines to go to a state that allowed abortions. (Usually, only a bus fare away).
The idea that Trump would ban abortion is pure fantasy and now it's disproven.
The Democrats can't play the abortion card any longer.
Dick Morris is a former presidential adviser and political strategist. He is a regular contributor to Newsmax TV. Read Dick Morris' Reports — More Here.