Gretchen Whitmer Calls Trump’s Bizarre Rant About Women and Abortion ‘Deranged’

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called out Donald Trump for his bizarre rant promising to make women great again , labeling his comments "deranged" and "ludicrous."

At a North Carolina rally on Saturday, the former president read aloud an all-caps post he shared on Truth Social late Friday night where he promised to ""

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Whitmer responded to Trump's comments about abortion during a Sunday morning appearance on CNN's State of the Union. "That's just ludicrous," the Michigan governor said. "I think this guy just doesn't understand what the average woman is confronting in her life in this country. And how could he? He's not lived a normal life, unlike Kamala Harris, who has worked hourly jobs, who knows how important it is that women have health care and access to the medical care that they need."

"He's just deranged," Whitmer concluded.

According to an NBC News national poll released Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris leads Trump among women voters by a wide margin. Fifty-seven percent of registered women voters support Harris, compared to just 37% who said they support Trump. On the issue of abortion, Harris also claims the lead with a 21-point advantage over her opponent.

Trump posted his rant hours after Harris delivered a speech in Atlanta that spotlighted abortion rights. Harris spoke of Amber Nicole Thurman, a Georgia medical assistant who died at age 28 from an infection resulting from a rare complication after she took abortion medication. According to ProPublica, Thurman was denied a routine procedure — a dilation and curettage, or D&C — because it the had state outlawed it, leaving room for very few exceptions.

By the time doctors operated, 20 hours later, Thurman could not be saved.

"We will speak her name: Amber Nicole Thurman," Harris said. She then led the crowd in a call-and-response of Thurman's name.

"We understand the impact of these bans, and the horrific reality that women and families, their husbands, their partners, their parents, their children, are facing as a consequence every single day since Roe was overturned," Harris said.

"The reality is, for every story we hear of the suffering under Trump abortion bans, there are so many of the stories we're not hearing, but where suffering is happening every day in our country," she added.

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