By Marlyn Montilla
If former President Donald Trump and his Republican Party allies lose the November presidential election, weeks like the one now ending could be to blame.
The former president is praised by the MAGA base of the Republican Party, but the extreme right label that they have imposed has made some of his allies think that this could affect the effort to get undecided voters that they will need for the month of November.
This weekend, Trump Republicans were supporting Alabama’s decision to call frozen embryos children, calling for an end to democracy and offering Russian President Vladimir Putin a pass to attack his enemies.
For its part, the Democratic Party presents MAGA Republicans as extremists bent on destroying rights and traditions that the vast majority of the country’s citizens support.
The conservative Alabama court’s ruling that frozen embryos are children has caused fertility clinics in the Republican-led state to close for fear of prosecution.
Now the Republican magnate and his allies in Congress are fighting to denounce the ruling, which arose from a ruling orchestrated by Trump himself, the US Supreme Court’s rejection of the right to abortion under Roe v. Wade, Axios reported.
The former president, who routinely boasts of having named three of the judges who overturned Roe v. Wade asked the Alabama legislature on Friday to protect in vitro fertilization (IVF), a procedure performed in specialized clinics.
Likewise, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside DC, there were calls for an end to Trump-led American democracy and a movement toward a Christian state.
“Welcome to the end of democracy!” said online activist Jack Posobiec during a speech. “We are here to overthrow him completely. We didn’t get there on January 6, but we will work hard to get rid of it and replace it.”
Earlier this week, Trump’s reaction to the death of the Russian opponent, Alexei Navalny, who died in a prison in the Arctic Circle (comparing his legal political situation with that of the Russian dissident and refusing to criticize Putin), caused criticism from Democrats and her Republican rival, Nikki Haley.
“Donald Trump is siding with a dictator who kills his political opponents,” Haley said at a rally before the Republican primary in South Carolina.
The former president later called Navalny’s death “horrible,” but Haley and President Joe Biden’s campaign called it a reminder of Trump’s affinity for dictators.
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