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Trump won’t say how he voted on abortion issue in Florida: ‘Don’t talk about it’

Trump won’t say how he voted on abortion issue in Florida: ‘Don’t talk about it’

After voting in his home state of Florida, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declined to say how he voted statewide abortion measure.

Trump voted Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida, near his club at Mar-a-Lago, and said afterward that he felt “very confident.”

The former president was then asked twice how he voted on Florida Amendment 4.

If approved, the measure would prevent state lawmakers from passing a law that criminalizes, bans, delays or limits abortion until the viability of the fetus. If it is rejected, the restrictive six-week abortion law would remain in place.

According to The Associated Press, Trump avoided answering the first time he was asked. Instead, he said he had “done a great job bringing it back to the United States,” referring to his Supreme Court picks that helped overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.

When Trump was asked a second time, he told the reporter, “You shouldn’t talk about it anymore.”

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, and his wife Melania Trump talk to reporters after casting their votes at the polling place at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center on Election Day, November 5, 2024 in Palm

Trump had previously indicated he would support the measure — but then changed his mind and said he would vote against it.

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How did Kamala Harris vote?

Last weekend, similarly, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris wouldn’t say how she voted on a major ballot measure in her home state of California that would undo criminal justice reforms passed in recent years.

If passed, the initiative would make shoplifting a misdemeanor for repeat offenders and increase penalties for some drug charges, including those involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl. It would also give judges the power to order people with multiple drug offenses to seek treatment.

Harris said she wouldn’t say how she voted because she didn’t plan to “create an endorsement around it one way or another.”