Trump makes play for women's vote, vows to ensure 'powerful exceptions' for abortion

Former President Trump vowed to "protect women at a level never seen before" if elected, and to ensure that "powerful exceptions" for abortion are adopted across the nation, in a social media post early Saturday.

Trump, in the lengthy late-night missive to his Truth Social in all capitalized letters, said "women are poorer than they were four years ago, are less healthy than they were four years ago, are less safe on the streets than they were four years ago, are more depressed and unhappy than they were four years ago, and are less optimistic and confident in the future than they were four years ago."

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"I will fix all of that, and fast, and at long last this national nightmare will be over," he said. "Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free!"

Polls have consistently shown Trump running strongly, against Vice President Kamala Harris in most demographic groups, but struggling with women. Much of that has been attributed to the fact that the three justices he picked for the Supreme Court helped overturn Roe v. Wade, which had enshrined abortion protections under federal law.

In his post, Trump wrote that women "will no longer be thinking about abortion, because it is now where it always had to be, with the states, and a vote of the people—and with powerful exceptions, like those that Ronald Reagan insisted on for rape, incest, and the life of the mother—but not allowing for Democrat demanded late term abortion in the 7th, 8th, or 9th month, or even execution of a baby after birth."

"I will protect women at a level never seen before," he said. "They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe and secure."

Trump added: