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The former president was asked twice after voting today in Palm Beach, Florida, about the issue voters in that state are considering.
If approved, it would prevent state lawmakers from passing any law that penalizes, bans, delays or limits abortion until fetal viability — which doctors say is sometime after 21 weeks.
If rejected, the state’s restrictive six-week abortion law will remain in place.
The first time he was asked, Trump avoided answering.
He said instead of asking that he did “a great job bringing it back to the states.”
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That was a reference to the former president appointing three conservative justices to the US Supreme Court who helped overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 2022.
Pressed a second time, Trump snapped at the reporter, saying they “should stop talking about it.”
Trump had previously indicated he would support the measure, but then changed his mind and said he would vote against it.
In August, Trump said he thought Florida’s ban was a mistake, saying on Fox News: “I think six weeks, you need more time.”
But then he said, “at the same time, Democrats are radical” as he repeated the false claims he often made about late-term abortions.
Along with Florida, voters in eight other states are deciding whether their state constitutions should guarantee abortion rights, weighing ballot measures expected to drive turnout in a number of key races.
Passage of certain amendments in Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota would likely lead to the overturning of bans or restrictions that currently block varying levels of access to abortion for the more than 7 million women of reproductive age living in those states.
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