GOP Senate Recruits Back The Same Extreme Abortion Positions That Cost The Party In 2022
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
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Helena, MT – New reporting from HuffPost highlights how Matt Rosendale and Tim Sheehy are backing extreme abortion positions that are out of step with Montana values.
Sheehy compared abortion to murder in an April interview when asked about the Supreme Court ruling protecting access to the abortion pill. And Rosendale, another staunch opponent of reproductive rights, has “cosponsored legislation banning abortion and birth control.”
HuffPost: GOP Senate Recruits Back The Same Extreme Abortion Positions That Cost The Party In 2022
By Liz Skalka and Igor Bobic
June 21, 2023
Senate Republicans’ number one recruiting target in Montana, a state that will help decide control of the upper chamber next year, has compared abortion to “murdering our unborn children.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised not to “screw this up” as Republicans look at a golden opportunity to flip the Senate in 2024, with chances to pick up seven seats in states former President Donald Trump won at least once.
But they’re already at risk of repeating one of the major errors of their disappointing 2022 cycle: running candidates with anti-abortion positions unacceptable to swing voters in a post-Dobbs decision world.
Polls have repeatedly shown Republicans losing ground among independents on the abortion issue.
A Public Religion Research Institute survey released earlier this year found a majority of people in all seven Trump-won states that the GOP could target — Arizona, Montana, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — think abortion should be legal in most or all cases.
Both potential GOP candidates [in Montana] are staunch abortion opponents. Rosendale has cosponsored legislation banning abortion and birth control, while Sheehy compared abortion to murder when asked about this year’s Supreme Court ruling maintaining government approval of the abortion pill, comparing abortion to murder.
“It’s really frustrating how, you know, we have one party in this country that seems to be bent on murdering our unborn children and taking that, taking that tack, you know, in a very militant way,” Sheehy said in an April interview on conservative talk radio show Montana Talks.
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