Chuck Todd dings 'abortion debate' as a 'total debacle for the GOP'
NBC host Chuck Todd revealed that Republicans have told him the debate over the abortion medication mifepristone has been a "total debacle for the GOP."
While teasing Sunday's Meet the Press program, NBC host Willie Geist told Todd that he had talked to Republicans who are worried about a partial ban on mifepristone that was temporarily blocked by the Supreme Court.
Todd said he had heard similar sentiments from Republicans.
"[New Hampshire Gov.] Chris Sununu basically said, and I thought he put it in some pretty interesting, stark terms," Todd recalled, "he said, whatever you think of the Roe vs. Wade decision, it was a 50-year precedent. Whatever you think of Medicaid and abortion and mifepristone, this was a 20-year precedent."
"And he said, right now, the Republican Party looks like it wants to sort of pull the rug out and throw all this change," he continued. "And that is, you know, whenever a party looks like it is upsetting the status quo, in a quick way or in a radical way and not in an incremental way, there's almost always a backlash from the center and from the middle. And that's what you're seeing here."
Todd said that he had also talked to other Republicans from swing states.
"They see this abortion debate right now as a total debacle for the GOP," he observed. "And even Donald Trump going after Ron DeSantis for the six-week ban in Florida this week."
