{"id":3127,"date":"2023-01-02T02:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T08:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2023-03-14T02:17:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:17:31","slug":"trump-says-abortion-issue-responsible-for-gop-underperforming-expectations-in-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3127","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Trump says \u2018abortion issue\u2019 responsible for GOP underperforming expectations in midterms<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump blamed the \u201cabortion issue\u201d for Republicans underperforming expectations in the 2022 midterm elections.<br \/>\nTrump said in a post on Truth Social on Sunday that many in the\u00a0GOP handled the issue poorly, especially those who \u201cfirmly\u201d insisted on no exceptions to bans on the procedure, including in instances of rape and incest.<br \/>\nHe also said he is not to blame for the party\u2019s performance, responding to many in the GOP who have pointed to him as a reason for its losses.<br \/>\nRepublicans had hoped to make sweeping gains in both houses of Congress, but the party failed to win control of the Senate and only won a narrow majority in the House. Many Trump-backed candidates who were viewed as weaker general election choices than their primary opponents but more loyal to the former president lost in key congressional and gubernatorial races.<br \/>\nTrump said Republican voters who pushed against abortion for decades \u201cgot their wish\u201d from the Supreme Court in overturning Roe v. Wade and \u201cjust plain disappeared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3795054-trump-says-abortion-issue-responsible-for-gop-underperforming-expectations-in-midterms\/\">Thehil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump blamed the \u201cabortion issue\u201d for Republicans underperforming expectations in the 2022 midterm elections. Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Sunday that many in the\u00a0GOP handled the issue poorly, especially those who \u201cfirmly\u201d insisted on no exceptions to bans on the procedure, including in instances of rape and incest. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1307,3220,1264,1230],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abortion","tag-abortion-issue","tag-gop","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}