Monday’s Supreme Court decision striking down a Texas law regulating abortion clinics will push presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and conservative white evangelicals further into each others’ arms.
The decision comes just as Trump is facing plummeting poll numbers, intensifying his need to galvanize the GOP base. Evangelicals, dismayed by the court’s forceful rejection of the claim that the clinic regulations were necessary to protect women’s health and safety, will likely see Trump as their best hope to nominate justices who share their commitment to making abortion illegal.
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