In response to a question about abortion, Trump makes a number of dubious and sometimes just plain false statements.
He says that “everybody” across both major parties and independents wanted the issue to be thrown back to state governments, as happened in 2022 when a Supreme Court ruling knocked down Roe v Wade, the court case that established a national right to abortion. That’s not true.
He goes on to say that he believes in exceptions to abortion bans in cases of rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother, and that most Republicans agree with him. That’s accurate, according to recent polling, external.
But he then he accuses Democrats of wanting to legalise abortion up to eight or nine months of pregnancy, or to legalise infanticide - statements that are wildly inaccurate.
He goes on to say that the abortion issue “has been taken down many notches”.