The ad that Barrett signed her name to was actually a two-page spread in the South Bend Tribune, and the full ad specifically calls for "an end to the barbaric legacy of Roe v. Wade".
This is as clear a position as you'll ever see from a judicial nominee.
Here is the full ad:
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I think the whole brouhaha over Warren doing fundraising events in the general is overblown.
Her team clarified today she will be doing events for the DNC and state parties, recognizing the nominee's role in raising for coordinated campaign activities to help down ballot candidates.
Once she is doing those types of events anyway, it would seem sort of odd to say that a person coming to an event can give to the DNC and up to 50 state parties but cannot give 2800 to the actual presidential candidate's campaign.
It was fun for a while to debate whether the Democrat who beats Trump should focus on election reform or climate change in 2021. Now Republicans will make it a fight over lifting the debt ceiling.
The negotiations over the debt ceiling clearly illustrate the asymmetry between the two parties. GOP is happy to preserve the debt limit because they know Dems will never hang it over a GOP President's head. On other hand, GOP happy to play chicken with it when a Dem is in office
Trying to leverage a debt limit fight is an example of GOP playing what scholars would call constitutional hardball. Dems are too normsy to play hardball back at GOP. They prefer an "anti-hardball" solution, like getting rid of debt limit altogether so no one can mess with it.
After 16, no one thinks holding up a mirror to Trump - or engaging him tit for tat- is a winning strategy. However, sticking to a plan of ignoring Trump is a lot harder in a one-on-one matchup than for House challengers running individualized races
The challenge is, it is extremely difficult to be more newsworthy than Trump - with his provocative-by-design utterances- on any given day. This makes it difficult for even laserlike focus on strictly policy-focused messages - like preexisting conditions- to "win the day"
Susan Collins is on two Sunday news shows, @ThisWeekABC and @CNNSotu. She will obviously be pressed on her views on Roe when it comes to Trump's upcoming nominee. (1/6)
She will almost certainly claim that she considers Roe a "precedent" and she wants a "judge who respects precedent." She may also add she considers Roe "settled law." (2/6)
This is word salad. Donald Trump told us OVER AND OVER AGAIN during the campaign he would only appoint judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade. We should believe him. (3/6)