The Republican Party is still turning on the social conservatism, and especially the opposition to abortion, in order to get the vote out for Donald Trump. It used to say all of that under the old Republicans who spoke at this year's Democratic National Convention.
But it never delivered any of it, and none of those speakers for Joe Biden has changed opinion on anything. They all just see Biden as the natural successor to Bob Dole, John McCain and the Bushes. And so he is. Dole, McCain and the Bushes said everything that Trump is saying now, at least on those issues.
As for Trump, he has delivered Supreme Court Justices who were confirmed only because they had assured Republican Senators that they would leave abortion and same-sex marriage exactly as they were, and so far they have been as good as their word.
Trump would not pursue the belligerent Bush-McCain foreign policy of Biden, so there is a pro-life argument for him there. On abortion, however, there is none. Just as there has never been any for the Republican Party in general. Nor for the Democratic Party, but it has never pretended otherwise.
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