J.D. Vance attempted to distort his own position on abortion in the vice presidential debate on Oct. 1, suggesting that he “never supported a national ban.” In the past, he has said that he “certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally” and was “sympathetic” to the view that a national ban was needed to stop women from going to another state to get an abortion.
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00:00This issue is what's on everyone's mind.
00:03Donald Trump put this all into motion.
00:05He brags about how great it was that he put the judges in and overturned Roe versus Wade. 52 years of personal autonomy.
00:13So in Minnesota, what we did was restore Roe versus Wade. We made sure that we put
00:19women in charge of their health care. This is basic human right. We have seen
00:25maternal mortality
00:27skyrocket in Texas, outpacing many other countries in the world. This is about health care. In Minnesota,
00:33we are ranked first in health care for a reason. We trust women. We trust doctors.
00:37Well, I never supported a national ban. I did during when I was running for Senate in 2022 talk about setting some minimum national standard.
00:44For example, we have a partial birth abortion ban in this in place in this country at the federal level.
00:48I don't think anybody's trying to get rid of that or at least I hope not. Though
00:52I know that Democrats have taken a very radical pro-abortion stance.
00:55But Nora, you know, one of the things that changed is in the state of Ohio,
00:58we had a referendum in 2023 and the people of Ohio voted overwhelmingly, by the way,
01:05against my position. And I think that what I learned from that, Nora, is that we've got to do a better job at winning back
01:10people's trust. So many young women would love to have families.
01:14So many young women also see an unplanned pregnancy as something that's going to destroy their livelihood, destroy their education,
01:20destroy their relationships. And we have got to earn people's trust back.
01:24And that's why Donald Trump and I are committed to pursuing pro-family policies, making child care more accessible,
01:30making fertility treatments more accessible, because we've got to do a better job at that.
01:35And that's what real leadership is. My party, we've got to do so much better of a job at earning the American people's trust back on this issue
01:43where they frankly just don't trust us. And I think that's one of the things that Donald Trump and I are endeavoring to do.
01:49I want us as a Republican Party to be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word. I want us to support fertility treatments.
01:56I want us to make it easier for moms to afford to have babies.
01:59I want it to make it easier for young families to afford a home so they can afford a place to raise that family.
02:05And I think there's so much that we can do on the public policy front just to give women more options.
02:11Now, of course, Donald Trump has been very clear that on the abortion policy specifically,
02:16that we have a big country and it's diverse. And California has a different viewpoint on this than Georgia.
02:22Georgia has a different viewpoint from Arizona. And the proper way to handle this, as messy as democracy sometimes is,
02:29is to let voters make these decisions, let the individual states make their abortion policy.
02:35And I think that's what makes the most sense in a very big, a very diverse, and let's be honest, sometimes a very, very messy and divided country.
02:43When you listen to Vice President Harris talk about this subject and you hear me talk about it, you hear us talking exactly the same.
02:49Donald Trump is trying to figure out how to get the political right of this.
02:53I agree with a lot of what Senator Vance said about what's happening. His running mate, though, does not. And that's the problem.