Philip Wegman

But in our interview with her, she told The Wall Street Journal, the president is the problem.

That's a direct quote.

She believes that, you know, Trump, who was as pro-life of an advocate as you could have in 2016, and again in 2020, has set aside the issue.

The pro-life lobby thinks that there is a way for Republicans to run on abortion and not run away from it.

And so they are going to spend a lot of money in these coming midterms.

But they're also going to spend a ton of money in the coming presidential primary.

And the expectation here is that any candidate that they're going to support has to agree to federal action on the abortion issue.

Marjorie told the Wall Street Journal in our reporting that the president, who had been staunchly and openly pro-life—remember, in 2016, there's that moment on the debate stage where he says that Hillary Clinton is okay with partial birth abortion—

and describes that in vivid terms.

Based on where she's going and where she's been, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month on the final day, and that's not acceptable.

Well, that is not what happened.

That got all of the social conservatives to stop thinking twice about this billionaire playboy from New York and see him instead as a social conservative champion.

Well, in the 2024 election, Trump sort of says, hey, I delivered you three pro-life Supreme Court justices.

My work here is done.

I'm going to focus on other things.

And when Marjorie went to Trump and said, hey, we need federal action.

I need you to get on board.

The answer that she got was, no, this issue is killing us.

That is nearly 10 points higher than it was just over a decade ago.

And there's a belief inside of the current administration that if they didn't have to deal with abortion, then maybe Republicans will be picking up dozens of additional seats.