GOP Candidates Strip Abortion and Trump Connections From Their Campaign Websites
BY SAM BRODEY THE DAILY BEAST
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 2:09 AM
Right after Bo Hines won a crowded primary for Congress in North Carolina, a visitor to the Republican hopeful's campaign website would immediately find his declaration that he was "100 percent Pro-Life" and "100 percent Pro-Trump."
Just a click away was a section focused on "life and family" issues, which professed Hines' position that "life begins at conception" and his commitment to "protect the rights of the unborn."
Naturally, the first thing greeting any visitor to the site was the grinning face of Donald Trump-and his endorsement of Hines' campaign.
Today, all of that is gone. As Hines faces stiff competition from a Democratic rival in a swing suburban district, all but one of the images and invocations of Trump previously on his site have been removed, as have all references to abortion. Trump only appears in a photoshopped image with Hines in his site's section on border security.
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