The Trump campaign is downplaying the importance of abortion in the battleground state of Arizona, claiming the issue is a top concern for mostly Democratic voters after the state Supreme Court upheld a 19th-century near-total ban on abortion.
After conducting an internal poll from April 7-11 of 400 likely general election voters in the Grand Canyon State, Trump’s top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, concluded that abortion is less important for Republican and independent voters, according to an internal campaign memo.
“Arizona voters are NOT preoccupied with the Abortion ruling, it is largely Democrats,” Fabrizio wrote in the memo, pointing to the section of the survey in which respondents were asked to weigh in on what story has recently captured their attention, pointing to the 24% of Democrats who cited the
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