Republican Candidates for Gov Also Desperately Try to Run from Their Anti-Choice Extremism

Republican Candidates for Gov Also Desperately Try to Run from Their Anti-Choice Extremism

NC GOP Nominee for Governor Mark Robinson: “They think that I’ve changed my position. I have not changed my position. I’ve just changed…what I’m saying.”

Today, Donald Trump tried to run from his record of anti-choice extremism — despite the fact he’s responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade, which has led to extreme and dangerous abortion bans that are punishing women across the entire country.

Trump is not the only Republican trying to hide from his record of anti-choice extremism. In governors races across the country, GOP candidates are also trying to lie about their extreme records of attacking reproductive freedoms and supporting extreme abortion bans.

“As Americans continue to vote to protect abortion rights and reject anti-abortion extremism, Republicans running for governor are desperately scrambling to run from their harmful and unpopular records of trying to rip away reproductive freedom – but it won’t work,” said DGA Communications Director Sam Newton. “Between now and Election Day we will continue to make sure that voters know the truth about how the extreme GOP candidates running for governor in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Washington, and more would sign dangerous abortion bans. In fact, their desperate attempts to rewrite their anti-choice history just further emphasizes that the future of abortion rights is on the ballot in races for governor across the country.”

Here’s How Leading Republican Candidates are Trying to Hide from Their Anti-Choice Extremism:

• North Carolina: Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has stated that if elected, he would work with the legislature to pass “a bill saying you can’t have an abortion in North Carolina for any reason.” After facing backlash for his extreme stance, Robinson tried to deceive voters about his anti-abortion extremism, saying, “They think that I’ve changed my position. I have not changed my position. I’ve just changed…what I’m saying.”
• New Hampshire: Former U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte, who led the chargefor a national abortion ban, voted to restrict IVF access, and served as a “sherpa” for Neil Gorsuch during his Supreme Court nomination in the Senate, launched her campaign by saying “there is no ‘abortion ban’ in New Hampshire”, despite Gov. Sununu signing the first abortion ban in 40 years that calls for civil and criminal penalties for doctors and health care professionals, including “up to seven years in prison and fines up to $100,000.” While Ayotte attempts to run from her record, her primary opponent Chuck Morse has fully embraced his role as the legislature’s chief architect of the state’s current abortion ban.
• Washington: Former Congressman Dave Reichert is trying to claim he won’t change the state’s law, but was well-known as an “anti-abortion stalwart” in the House, who repeatedly voted for an extreme abortion ban, to defund Planned Parenthood, and to restrict abortion access for U.S. military women serving overseas.

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