Ahead of Saturday’s primary, South Carolina supporters of former President Donald Trump shared their thoughts on controversial topics from his comments on the Alabama IVF ruling to him saying Russia can do “whatever the hell they want” to any NATO country that doesn’t meet spending guidelines on defense and more.
Here’s what they had to say:
On the Alabama IVF ruling: Katie Alexander, who said she underwent IVF to get pregnant with her daughter, said she thought the Alabama Supreme Court ruling frozen embryos were children was a “dangerous slippery slope.”
“It makes it very, very muddy,” she said of the ruling, calling for new laws on the procedure to be passed.
On Trump using campaign funds to pay for legal fees: Some supporters were split on whether Trump should be using campaign funds to pay for his legal bills.
“Well, I don’t know what the laws are but I will tell you that people who donate to Trump’s campaign would have no problem with him using the money to pay some of his bills. I really believe that,” Carolyn Corcoran said.
Barbara Gobien said, “It doesn’t matter to me if they want to use it.”
Ruth Carroll expressed distrust in media reports and said she’d need to see proof first of Trump using campaign fees for his bills. But when asked if hypothetically it would be something she would support, Carroll said she would not.
On Trump’s NATO comments: Some supporters said they thought Trump wasn’t being serious when he encouraged Russia to do whatever it wanted to NATO countries that didn’t meet spending guidelines, and believed the US would still protect those countries if Trump were reelected.
“He says things in a kind of way that people just don’t understand,” Corcoran said. “But I don’t take what he says as meaning anything serious.”
But Barbara Gobien, said she agreed with Trump’s comments.
“Nobody should be allowed to be part of anything if they don’t pay their share and too many countries have lived off our backs and it’s about time that changed,” Gobien said. “Trump’s the first person that made that statement and he started getting people to pay their fair share.”
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