The upper echelons of the party couldn’t possibly care less about “unborn children.” They care about maintaining power, and being anti-abortion is the single-greateat advantage they have.
The GOP absolutely depends on people voting against their own self-interest. They have 3 major strategies to achieve this - making voting more difficult, spreading disinformation, and targeting single-issue voters.
Pro lifers are by far the most-powerful single-issue voting group in the county - followed by pro-gun voters.
Tens of millions of people literally believe abortion is murdering a child. To them, there is no combination of issues that outweighs stopping abortion. While they may be a minority of Americans, they base 100% of their vote on abortion. I know people who are hard-left liberal on every other issue who vote straight-ticket Republican because to them NOTHING else matters.
If you think the pro-choice crowd is a powerful voice in a general election, imagine Trump and Biden having opposite positions on abortion, but otherwise being the same in every way.
How many pro-choice historically-Democratic voters would have voted for Trump instead of Biden? Pretty much zero.
How many pro-life historically-Republican voters would have voted for Biden instead of Trump? Tens of millions.
The upper echelons of the party couldn’t possibly care less about “unborn children.” They care about maintaining power, and being anti-abortion is the single-greateat advantage they have.
The GOP absolutely depends on people voting against their own self-interest. They have 3 major strategies to achieve this - making voting more difficult, spreading disinformation, and targeting single-issue voters.
Pro lifers are by far the most-powerful single-issue voting group in the county - followed by pro-gun voters.
Tens of millions of people literally believe abortion is murdering a child. To them, there is no combination of issues that outweighs stopping abortion. While they may be a minority of Americans, they base 100% of their vote on abortion. I know people who are hard-left liberal on every other issue who vote straight-ticket Republican because to them NOTHING else matters.
If you think the pro-choice crowd is a powerful voice in a general election, imagine Trump and Biden having opposite positions on abortion, but otherwise being the same in every way.
How many pro-choice historically-Democratic voters would have voted for Trump instead of Biden? Pretty much zero.
How many pro-life historically-Republican voters would have voted for Biden instead of Trump? Tens of millions.