Rep. Adam Kinzinger: In GOP, primary race success may come with ‘crueler’ view on abortion
WASHINGTON – Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said Sunday that especially in light of this summer’s Supreme Court ruling on abortion, “crueler” Republican candidates with extreme views on pregnancy exceptions have found success at the ballot box.
Noting that it had been “fairly common” to provide for exceptions in abortions, Kinzinger said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” “now you’ve been seeing these Republicans go, ‘There is absolutely no exception,’ because somehow in the Republican Party, the crueler you are, the more likely you are to win a primary.”
Kinzinger said the emergence of abortion as a campaign issue since the Dobbs ruling has “changed the complexion of the midterms some.”
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Kinzinger referenced the campaign website of Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters, which changed in recent days to include a less strident view of abortion, according to reports. Masters’ website, according to CNN and NBC News, previously had said he was “100% pro-life” and said he backed a “federal personhood law.”
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