Former President Donald Trump stated that an Arizona Supreme Court ruling upholding an 1864 law banning nearly all abortions in the state went too far.
“Yeah they did,” Trump told reporters about the ruling issued on Tuesday, during an impromptu press conference in Atlanta Wednesday morning. “It’s all about state’s rights. It’ll be straightened out. I’m sure the governor and everybody else are going to bring it back within reason.”
The former president was asked about Florida’s Supreme Court allowing a six-week abortion ban to go into effect. Trump responded it was “probably maybe going to change” and Arizona was “definitely going to change.”
“It’s the will of the people, this is what I’ve been saying. It’s a perfect system,” Trump said. “So for 52 years, people have wanted to end Roe v. Wade to get it back to the states. We did that. It was an incredible thing, incredible achievement. We did that. And now the states have it. And the states are putting out what they want.”
Florida’s Supreme Court also ruled that an abortion measure be allowed on the November ballot, while pro-abortion organizers in Arizona are working to get an abortion measure on the ballot as well.
The Arizona Supreme Court ruling only allows exceptions for an abortion in the case of saving a mother’s life due to an emergency. Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) denounced the ruling and called for the 1864 law to be repealed.
Trump’s comments echoed a Monday statement on abortion where he called for states to determine how far to restrict abortion access, angering some anti-abortion members of his coalition.
Trump also brushed off concerns about his financial disadvantage against President Joe Biden ahead of a fundraising luncheon in Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday.
“We don’t need nearly the money that they need. In Florida, as an example, I put up a very small amount of money,” Trump said. “They put $300 million into Florida. I put peanuts into Florida and I won by two million votes.”
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The Atlanta luncheon follows on the heels of a more than $50 million fundraiser Trump participated in over the weekend in Florida after Biden raked in $26 million during a Radio City Music Hall fundraiser in New York with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton last month.
Biden and the Democratic National Committee have greatly outraised Trump and the Republican National Committee. In March Biden and the DNC raised $90 million and had $192 million cash on hand compared to Trump and the RNC raising $66 million in March with $93 million cash on hand.
But it appears that GOP megadonors are coming to Trump’s aide.
Former Georgia U.S. senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are hosting the fundraiser in conjunction with The Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus.