Fox News host Sean Hannity warned Republicans against supporting candidates who take hard-line stances on abortion, citing losses in the 2022 midterm elections.
“I would argue, and I think I’m right, in 2022 Republicans were not prepared for how the Democrats would demagogue the issue of abortion,” Hannity said during Fox’s coverage of Super Tuesday. “And I understand people have very strong convictions. However looking at it strictly from a political point of view, and I believe in the sanctity of life … politically the country is probably where Dobbs was at 15 weeks.”
Hannity criticized failed Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, who as part of his campaign was vocally supportive of a near-total ban on abortion.
“Republicans need to understand that if they pick somebody like they did in ’22 … like other people he made no exceptions, that’s a mistake,” he continued. “They’ve got to have an answer for the millions and millions of dollars that will be spent on ads about abortion.”
Hannity, a Trump supporter, said he was “very happy” to see the former president come out in support of in vitro fertilization.
Trump and President Biden claimed dozens of delegates during Super Tuesday’s various state primaries, setting up what is expected to be a rematch between the two candidates of the 2020 election.
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) will be the GOP nominee for the state’s gubernatorial race following Tuesday’s primary. CNN reported Robinson said in 2020 “there is no compromise on abortion.”
Hannity, a leading pundit on the right, had previously accused Democrats of attempting to “scare” women voters into thinking Republicans want a nationwide ban on abortion.