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By Kate Plummer
Senior US News Reporter
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New polling regarding abortion rights could negatively impact the Republican Party as it approaches November's general election.
Abortion rights have emerged as a major theme ahead of the 2024 presidential election following the U.S. Supreme Court releasing a ruling in 2022 overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that protected a pregnant woman's right to choose to have an abortion "without undue restrictive interference from the government."
Many Republicans wish to curtail abortions and some states have since placed gestational limits on abortion following the ruling. However, polls consistently show that most Americans believe abortion should be legal through the initial stages of pregnancy.
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Now, according to new polling of 1,000 registered voters by progressive firm Navigator Research, 63 percent of Americans say they could not support an elected official who believes in a nationwide abortion ban. Forty-three percent of the Republicans asked in the survey said they could not support a figure with these views.
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With national and swing state polls ahead of the 2024 presidential election so tight, abortion rights could be a key factor that decides several of November's races.
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The survey was conducted between May 30 and June 3. Newsweek contacted Navigator Research by website form to comment on this story and provide the poll's margin of error.
Meanwhile, in May, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said that abortion limits should be decided by states and declined to endorse a national abortion ban.
"My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both," he said. "And whatever they decide must be the law of the land—in this case, the law of the state."
However, Navigator Research also polled 812 likely voters between May 23 and June 4, with an additional oversample of 599 Americans living in battleground states. It found that 75 percent of Americans believe mailing of medication to end a pregnancy will be banned nationwide if Trump wins the next presidential election.
A further 66 percent believe women will be unable to access abortion in the states they live in and 64 percent said they believed abortion will be banned nationwide.
Polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight, which ranks pollsters based on their historical track record and methodological transparency, has awarded Navigator Research 1.3 stars out of three and has given it a transparency score of 3.6 out of 10.
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