An ex-member of former President Donald Trump’s campaign staff says that she will no longer support Trump due to his recent remarks on abortion rights.
Trump, despite having repeatedly celebrated his role in dismantling federal abortion rights by appointing Supreme Court justices who later overturned Roe v. Wade, announced this week that he would be adopting a more moderate position as the November presidential election approaches.
The former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee said that he would not support a federal abortion ban. He also indicated that he was “strongly in favor” of multiple exceptions to any state bans, arguing that “at the end of the day, it’s all about the will of the people.”
Lizzie Marbach, who worked on the former president’s ill-fated 2020 reelection campaign, denounced Trump for expressing further support for less restrictive abortion laws on Wednesday in a post to X, formerly Twitter, announcing that “Trump has officially lost my vote.”
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Marbach, an evangelical Christian who describes herself as a “handmaiden of the patriarchy” in her X bio, claimed the Trump was “advocating for abortion” and argued that it would be “sinful” for anyone who shares her beliefs to vote for the ex-president.
“This is it. I’m out,” Marbach wrote. “Trump has officially lost my vote. No sincere Christians can vote for Trump while he is now openly & boldly advocating for abortion. This is not a matter of Christian liberty anymore. It’s sinful to vote for the man.”
This is it. I’m out. Trump has officially lost my vote.
No sincere Christians can vote for Trump while he is now openly & boldly advocating for abortion. This is not a matter of Christian liberty anymore. It’s sinful to vote for the man. https://t.co/vDtduL5MJ4
— Lizzie Marbach (@LizzieMarbach) April 10, 2024
Trump 2024 campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung said the following to Newsweek when asked about Marbach and her post via email on Wednesday night: “Who?”
Marbach served as communications director for anti-abortion group Ohio Right to Life after working for the Trump 2020 campaign. She was fired from her role after receiving backlash for proclaiming to a Jewish member of the group that “there is no hope for any of us outside of having faith in Jesus Christ alone,” according to The Christian Post.
The political implications of the national abortion rights debate were highlighted on Tuesday after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that an archaic law mandating a near-total ban on abortion, passed decades before Arizona was a state in 1864, was still legally enforceable.
Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he agreed the Arizona court had gone “too far” by reviving the ban, while speculating that Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs and state lawmakers would soon “bring it back to within reason.”
“It’ll be straightened out,” Trump said. “I’m sure that the governor and everybody else are going to bring it back to within reason. And that will be taken care of, I think, very quickly … It’s a perfect system.”
Republicans in the Arizona state House on Wednesday blocked a Democratic bill that would have repealed the 1864 law.
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