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GOP MN-02 candidate Tyler Kistner has joined the abortion backtracking bandwagon.
Kistner, along with multiple other members of his party, is being called out for attempting to distance himself from his extreme stance on abortion after polling and special election results showed voters don’t like Republicans’ extreme anti-choice agenda.
In 2020, Kistner’s website included a section where he called himself “100% pro-life” and expressed his intentions to end federal funding to Planned Parenthood. Now, Kistner’s website “does not mention abortion” as he tries to hide his extreme and unpopular views from voters.
Read more about Kistner’s love for the delete button below.
Associated Press: GOP candidates mask rigid abortion stances after Roe ruling
By: Thomas Beaumont
September 1, 2022
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…more than a dozen strictly anti-abortion Republicans running in competitive House, Senate and governor’s races this fall in Minnesota, Nevada, Kansas, Arizona and elsewhere who are trying to distance themselves from their past statements.
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In newspaper op-eds, during interviews and on their campaign websites, Republican challengers who expressed support for banning most or all abortions — some in cases of rape, incest and to protect the life and health of the mother — are at a minimum downplaying those positions and at most backtracking at a time when abortion rights have complicated Republicans’ focus on the economy heading into the November midterm elections.
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In 2020, [Kistner’s] website included a section on abortion that stated he wanted to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood. In this year’s campaign, his website does not mention abortion.
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