Trump-Backed Blake Masters Does Slimy Flip-Flop On Abortion After Winning Primary

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Laws that establish "fetal personhood," pushed by anti-abortion advocates, seek to extend the rights of people to a fetus or embryo before viability.
44% : But then, his campaign released a new ad Thursday in which Masters suddenly claimed to support "commonsense regulation around abortion." "Look, I support a ban on very late-term and partial-birth abortion," he says in the ad.
43% : After releasing the ad, his campaign changed and deleted parts of his website to soften his stances on abortion.
43% : Even in red states, attitude on abortion are shifting in favor of Democrats, according to FiveThirtyEight analysis.
42% : The candidate, endorsed by Donald Trump and bankrolled by Peter Thiel, quietly changed a campaign website section about his positions on abortion this week -- and was caught in the act by NBC News.
37% : If enacted, they would class abortions as murder and end most of the exceptions for abortion.
9% : Ironically, he sought to portray his opponent, Sen. Mark Kelly, as having "extreme" views on abortion, and accused the Democrat of "lying about my views on abortion."

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