Melania Trump has been largely absent from her husband’s third election campaign, but just a month before the presidential election she has just given him a historic cape. Regarding her autobiographical book, ‘Melania’, number one in Amazon sales even before it goes on sale next week, the former first lady has revealed herself as a firm defender of the right of women “to decide about his own body.”
Abortion is neither the first nor the second concern of Americans when voting, but rather the eighth, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. While Donald Trump is the candidate for the White House with the most voting intentions among those who are concerned about the economy or immigration, Kamala Harris sweeps among those who see the disappearance of this right as a fundamental concern.
After having boasted of solving “that great problem” by appointing the three Supreme Court judges who tipped the balance by annulling the jurisprudence that made abortion law for the entire country, Trump had a difficult time overcoming these reluctance among the undecided, who he needs to attract to win the elections. And that’s where Melania has come to the rescue.
In a black and white promotional video, like the cover of her book, the former first lady appears haughty and defiant to defend that “individual freedom is a fundamental principle” that she defends. “Without a doubt, there is no room for concessions when it comes to this fundamental right that all women have from birth,” she says with classical music in the background when claiming the slogan of ‘My body, my decision.’
What there is no doubt is that this studio production is not something spontaneous. Proof that she is choreographed with her husband’s campaign is that the day before he wrote on his Truth Social platform that he will never support a federal veto on abortion “under any circumstances,” which is what the evangelical movement pursues. “In fact, I would veto it,” he warned in capital letters. It is a bitter pill for those who defend life from the moment of conception and accuse Democrats of committing a massive crime by allowing women to freely terminate their pregnancies.
More moderate
Since his campaign emerged victorious from the primaries and entered the general elections, the former president has been moderating his stance, especially after his rival Joe Biden passed the Democratic electoral baton to Vice President Kamala Harris, with whom the Republican leader now He is neck and neck in the polls. A month ago he sparked controversy by saying that he considered the Florida law that bans abortion after six weeks of gestation “too strict,” although he later amended it by saying that he would still vote against the referendum that seeks to modify the Constitution of the state to protect that right. “This is the day Donald Trump loses the election,” conservative commentator Erick Erickson, who has since returned to the fold of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, posted indignantly on Twitter.
In any case, Trump seems to have calculated that his wife’s independence would give him an alibi, without losing the loyalty of those who support him in the campaign and prefer to judge him by his actions than by his words. Putting these ideas in your wife’s mouth is the perfect move so that they cannot be blamed on her.
In her book, of which the British newspaper The Guardian has received an advance copy, the former first lady is even more specific and passionate in defending women’s reproductive freedom, which she says she has defended throughout her adult life. “Why should anyone else, other than a woman, have the power to determine what she does with her own body?” she wrote in her biography, according to the newspaper. “The fundamental right of a woman’s individual freedom over her own life gives her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she so wishes,” he says.
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