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Midnight at Mar-a-Lago

With the clock ticking, the abortion issue has reshuffled Trump’s V.P. deck.

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Rustbelt senator J.D. Vance has a flexible approach to ideology that's a close match for Trump’s own. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
April 12, 2024

Cognizant of the charged politics around abortion, and concerned about the liberal backlash to the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, Donald Trump has spent the past several months stress-testing his policy stance on “the a-word,” as he calls it, with his preferred focus group: Mar-a-Lago patrons. In particular, Trump has been polling club members to determine whether any of the vice presidential candidates on his shortlist are considered too extreme on abortion.