The Supreme Court has erased Roe v. Wade, and with it, women’s freedom to decide their own health care disappeared; but lots of Republicans cheered. After all, they’ve been campaigning against trusting women to make their own health care decisions for 50 years. Now some are changing their minds. See our growing list — so far, only Republicans are flipping to either silence or “sort of” edging away from their solid support of the Court, but can we trust them for their new positions?
- Blake Masters, AZ Senate candidate (Running against incumbent Democrat Senator Mark Kelly)
- Tom Barrett, MI 7/8 (Running against Incumbent Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin)
- Zach Nunn, IA 3 (Running against incumbent Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne)
- Bo Hines, NC 13 (Running against Democrat Wiley Nikel)
- Mark Ronchetti, NM governor’s race (Running against incumbent Democrat Governor Lujan Grisham)
- Christian Castelli, NC 6 (Running against incumbent Democrat Rep. Kathy Manning)
- Scott Jensen, MN governor candidate (Running against incumbent Democrat Governor Tim Walz)
- Barb Kirkmeyer, CO 8 (Running against Democrat Yadira Caraveo) … Kirkmeyer even double-downed in her duplicitnous, erasing not only her position but also the fact that she had been a star speaker at the National Right-to-Life March.
- Amanda Adkins, KS 3 (Running against incumbent Democrat Sharis Davids) … This is Adkins’ third run for Congress so she had been on record for a long time, before she made this season’s flip.
We expect there will be more flips on abortion. The big victory for women’s freedom to choose their medical care has surprised Republicans. The question for voters is what position to these “flippers” really believe. .
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