'[He] wants to be able to tell base voters he signed the strictest abortion law and doesn't want a lot of swing voters to know about it,' one Republican strategist says on Gov. DeSantis signing a six-week abortion ban.
Allies of the former president are already hitting DeSantis from both sides. The governor could face backlash from primary voters who view him as a compromise candidate.
The bill landed on DeSantis’ desk just as the GOP reaches an inflection point on the issue of abortion, having suffered setbacks during last year’s midterm elections and, more recently, decisivelyat a time when the question of abortion and overturning a restrictive statewide ban hung in the balance. And notably, at an appearance at the conservative Liberty University in Virginia on Friday, the school's new chancellor Jonathan Falwell referred to the legislation in his introduction of DeSantis, but the governor himself did not mention it in front of what likely would have been a receptive audience.
DeSantis' allies have pushed back on the idea that he was trying to hide anything, noting that he rushed back from Ohio. One person with knowledge of his thinking said the governor wanted to sign the measure as soon as possible. “It helps him because it’s good public policy. He’s possibly a presidential candidate, this is a huge issue in the Republican Party,” he said, adding that in his view, the general election will also turn to a discussion on immigration, transgender issues and the economy. “A lot of issues are going to play out in the general election, state by state … I think this is a huge issue — but it’s not going to be a dispositive issue.
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