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Where do you see the politics of this going for your party? i mean, the politics is terrible for the gop. i mean wing you have to have a consistent message. after we had the dobbs decision, the gop should have come out and say, we want to create a culture of life. how do you do that? let s encourage adoption. let s encourage responsible birth control use, stuff like that. instead, it s gone into this doom loop of like meanness. now we re going to make it six weeks, now we re going to make it four weeks. now we ll punish the women who have abortions. and you re destroying any kind of culture of life that you had with this process. it s terrible politics. and i think, frankly, these legislatures are now running against the wall and recognizing that this is going to cost them big in 2024. i completely agree. you can t be the republican party, the mantra was, this is a state s rights issue. this is a state s rights issues. dobbs has decided it s a state s right issue. president trump