Why can't he just say SCOTUS ruled it is a matter for the states and leave it at that?
Exactly!
Trump needs to talk about, "Illegal immigration, Biden's economy, illegal immigration, Biden's economy, illegal immigration, Biden's economy..." And nothing else.
Now that the primaries are over, he'll be given a pass on his Covid mishandling (only because the Democrats mishandled it even worse).
The Democrats are handing him the same playbook that he won with in 2016, except now immigration and the economy is in even worse shape after four years of Biden.
He has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to gain from trying to work out an abortion "compromise."
The "100% no abortion ever for any reason" people are already voting for him. The "Abortion any time for any reason" people will never vote for him.
There is no compromise that will make the far extremes on both sides happy and the majority of the Americans who are in the middle on the issue are satisfied leaving it up to the states.
DO NOT TALK ABOUT ABORTION ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL! DROP IT!
I agree
Our side needs to let sleeping dogs lie and be grateful for X/RvW until we change more minds