Former President Donald Trump appeared to suggest in a Thursday interview that he would vote in favor of Florida's amendment to restore the Roe v. Wade abortion standard, overturning the extreme six-week ban passed by the legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
But a spokeswoman for his campaign walked back his statement shortly thereafter.
"You overturned Roe and you want abortion to be a states' rights issue," a reporter asked him. "In Florida, a state that you are a resident of, there's an abortion-related amendment on the ballot to overturn the six-week ban in Florida. How are you going to vote on that?"
"Well, I think the six-week is too short," said Trump. "It has to be more time, and so, and I've told them that, I want more weeks."
"So you'll vote in favor of the amendment?"
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"I'm voting that — I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks," said Trump, adding (incorrectly) that "everyone wanted Roe v. Wade terminated for years."
After the clip was shared by Florida's Voice, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt tried to walk back his seeming endorsement of Amendment 4.
Trump, she said, "has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative in Florida," and "simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short."
Florida is one of several states around the country where voters will decide on ballot referenda either overturning GOP-backed abortion bans or preventing such bans from ever passing, spurred on by the passage of such a measure in Ohio last year. Many of these referenda will be held in key battleground states like Nevada and Arizona. In some states where such votes are set to take place, like Missouri, Republicans are suing to get the referenda disqualified.
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