Trump boxed in on abor­tion as he tries to appeal to two bases head­ing into Novem­ber

Abor­tion will play a crit­i­cal role in the 2024 cycle as more states allow bal­lot mea­sures on the issue ahead of the Nov. 5 elec­tion, and for for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, the issue has the poten­tial to be a polit­i­cal landmine.The for­mer president’s abor­tion prob­lem is twofold. He must con­tin­ue to appease Repub­li­cans who advo­cate abor­tion restric­tions while win­ning over mod­er­ate and inde­pen­dent vot­ers who may not be too keen on lim­it­ing access to abortion.ELECTION 2024: FOLLOW LATEST COV­ER­AGE­White evan­gel­i­cals, who large­ly sup­port restric­tions on abor­tion, made up a third of the peo­ple who vot­ed for Trump in 2020. With­out that coali­tion, Trump would have lost to Biden by more than 20 per­cent­age points, accord­ing to the Pew Research Cen­ter, mak­ing keep­ing their sup­port cru­cial for the for­mer pres­i­dent head­ing into November.Meanw …