Tim Walz expected to bring receipts of J.D. Vance’s anti-abortion stance to VP debate
At another debate stage in 2022, incumbent Minnesota Gov Tim Walz took down his opponent, the Republican Party Dr. Scott Jensento carry out the mandate on abortion rights. Jensen recently change his tone on access to reproductive health care, trying to soften its tone to appeal to voters. Walz wasn’t having it.
“For my entire career, I have trusted women to make decisions about their health care,” Walz said at the time. the only debate on prime-time television. “I don’t believe anyone sitting in this office can come between them.”
“I just want to be absolutely clear: This is on the ballot,” Walz added. “It will impact generations to come.”
In just a few days, on October 1, Walz will once again take the stand — this time against another man who has tried back to his anti-abortion remarks: Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance.
in one interview with the Associated Press, Jensen, who lost to Walz by nearly eight percentage points, discussing what it’s like to debate Walz and how the governor and senators should approach Tuesday’s faceoff.
Jensen said he thinks Walz will be “loud and clear” on the issue of abortion access.
“And JD Vance needs to make it clear that there will be no federal abortion ban,” Jensen added. “That’s what Trump said and they need to clarify that.”
in presidential debate earlier this month, three-time Republican nominee Donald Trump repeatedly failed to answer whether he would veto a national abortion ban if it were on his desk.
The Republican ticket was running on abortion as a “states rights” issue—But even Trump didn’t follow it. While in office, Trump voiced support about the 20-week federal ban and while doing so this time, he previously said he will open up to a 15-week ban.
“If I could get a yes or no answer,” said the ABC News anchor Linsey Davis Pressing Trump on the debate stage. “Because your running mate, JD Vance, said you would veto it if it came to your desk.”
“To be fair, I haven’t discussed that with JD,” Trump replied.
The former president was constantly boasting on the appointment of three of the five abolished Supreme Court judges Roe v. Wade. Trump — with Vance in tow — has shifted his rhetoric around abortion to appear less extreme on the issue. This week at a rally, Trump even declaredbaselessly, that women “will be protected and I will be your protector. Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free. You will no longer think about abortion.”
On his own debate stage in 2022, running for Congress, Vance speak that “some minimum national standard” on abortion is “perfectly fine with me.” After Texas passed a six-week ban in 2021, Vance be forewarned the law reads: “We want women to have opportunities, we want women to have choices, but most of all, we want women and boys in the womb to have the right to life.” He also called the political movement demanding abortion rights a “social disease.”
On the campaign trail, Walz continued to support abortion rights.
“Do you like it? [policy] where women die because they can’t get the health care they could have gotten if they needed reproductive care? Walz speak this month at the Macon-Bibb County Democratic Party headquarters in Georgia.
In January 2023, Walz signed A bill into law adds a new layer of security to abortion rights, ensuring the state’s existing protections remain in place even if the makeup of Minnesota’s courts changes someday.
In Walz’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, he cited his governor’s record on abortion rights.
“We also protect reproductive freedom because in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and their personal choices,” he said. “And even if we don’t make the same choices for ourselves, we still have a golden rule: Mind your own business.”
