'Double trouble': GOP strategists finally admit Trump, abortion could sink their Senate hopes

Senate Republicans have been blessed with a 2024 map that minimizes their vulnerabilities while providing them a handful of top targets for picking up the two seats necessary to recapture the upper chamber.

But Republican strategists are starting to admit that two gargantuan problems stand in their way: abortion and Donald Trump.

“Any state where Republicans have trouble with suburban voters because of the Trump brand, they had double trouble with suburban voters because of abortion politics," one Republican strategist told The Hill’s Alexander Bolton about the 2022 midterm elections. "It was for no reason because there is no chance a federal ban on abortion happens, ever,” the source added, peddling a laughable lie.

The stated goal of the anti-abortion zealots who have been a driving force behind the Republican Party for decades has always been to end abortion in the U.S., full stop. Take the present positioning of the premier forced birther organization in the country, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. The group is currently trying to coalesce Republicans around a 15-week abortion ban, insisting that every GOP presidential candidate pledge to sign such a bill at a minimum.  

But curtailing abortion access isn't their ultimate goal: It's just a convenient electoral stop this cycle on the way to eradicating the procedure altogether. The group's homepage prominently features a video alongside the declaration, "SBA Pro-Life America exists to end abortion."