In a rare moment, Donald Trump received “boos” from a crowd of supporters at a Florida summit Friday for saying he supports abortion in cases of rape and incest.
Reporting from the rally, CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes said that the conservative Turning Point USA's “very Trump friendly room" went cold on the Republican presidential nominee after he said he supported some exceptions in which abortion should be necessary.
“He did get boos when he start talking about abortion from a section of the crowd when he said that he supports those exceptions for incest and rape and health of the mother,” Holmes said. “it was the first time the room actually had a negative response to anything he said.”
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CNN host Kaitlan Collins asked if Trump had any “discernible reaction,” in that moment the crowd turned on him.
“Absolutely nothing,” Holmes said. “But he did pivot his conversation into – and this is obviously a line we’ve heard before – how you have to win elections.”
Trump then clarified, Holmes said, that voters should “believe what your heart wants to believe,” but that winning in November was what mattered, “clearly trying to indicate that was part of why [Trump] was saying what he was saying on abortion.”
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