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Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, made false claims Sunday about former President Donald Trump’s stance on abortion and about the state of the economy when Trump left office.
Here is a fact check of the two claims. The Harris-Walz campaign declined to comment.
Walz’s false abortion claim
In a Sunday interview on Fox News, Walz was asked about Minnesota’s abortion law. After discussing that subject, he pivoted to Trump, the Republican presidential nominee. He said: “Donald Trump’s asking for a nationwide abortion ban.”
Facts First: Walz’s claim is false. Trump is not “asking for” a nationwide abortion ban. Trump has said since the spring that he wants abortion policy to be set by each individual state, not set by the federal government for the whole country. Trump also promised last week to veto any federal abortion ban that Congress passed.
Trump wrote on social media last week: “EVERYONE KNOWS I WOULD NOT SUPPORT A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND WOULD, IN FACT, VETO IT, BECAUSE IT IS UP TO THE STATES TO DECIDE BASED ON THE WILL OF THEIR VOTERS (THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!)”
As a 2016 presidential candidate, Trump did support a federal abortion ban at 20 weeks of pregnancy (with exceptions for rape, incest and when the life of the mother is at risk), and he reiterated his support for that policy as president. But he is not supporting a federal ban during his current campaign.
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