Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said he thinks former president Trump finds the question about vetoing a national abortion ban “ridiculous” because it’s “legislation that’s never going to actually happen.”
“I think the president has been very clear that he doesn’t want a national abortion ban,” Vance told ABC News following the debate.
Vance said he had not spoken to the former president about whether or not he would veto a national abortion ban, despite Vance saying on NBC’s Meet the Press last month that Trump would veto such a ban.
“I think it’d be very clear he would not support (a potential ban),” Vance told Meet the Press in August. “I mean, if you’re not supporting it, as the President of the United States, you fundamentally have to veto it.”
But during the debate, Trump danced around the question of whether or not he would veto a national abortion ban.
An ABC moderator brought up Vance’s previous comments, to which Trump responded:
