As we reported yesterday, one of the only women left in America that still likes Donald Trump packed her bags and joined him in Florida to watch the election play out.

Melania Trump, who famously came out in favor of abortion rights recently, stood next to Donald Trump at the Palm Beach County Convention Center today as Trump took questions from the media. Donald dutifully answered every single question except for one.

Can you guess what the question was?

The Republican-controlled government of Florida controversially passed — and Ron DeSantis signed — a six-week abortion ban last year that replaced their previous fifteen-week ban. Aside from the conservative optics of it being popular among, well, Republicans, there are some serious dangers that come along with it.

Number one is that this is essentially a total ban on abortion. There are no effective exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother. But coming in a close second is the fact that six weeks often isn’t even long enough for a pregnancy to show up on an ultrasound.

But those are just the dangers. The real nefarious part of the law is the way it defines pregnancy. Under current Florida law you are considered six weeks pregnant just TWO weeks after your last missed period, if you have regular cycles. That means it has nothing to do with conception or “babies being killed” and everything to do with controlling women’s choices.

Underlining that fact are the two state-mandated doctor’s appointments that must be obtained and held 24 hours apart in order to get an abortion IF you fall into the exceedingly narrow window of legality.

Outraged by this blatant violation of women’s civil rights, Florida voters put an amendment on the ballot this year that would prevent the state’s legislature from “passing any law that penalizes, prohibits, delays or restricts abortion until fetal viability.”

Trump has been asked over and over again about how he would vote on the amendment, as a voter who’s registered in Florida. That, of course, would serve as a bellwether for the question of a national abortion ban. He has said he opposes any such ban, but in the same breath called Democrats extremists.

As Melania looked on, Trump was asked about it again today during the brief presser, and he didn’t just refuse to answer the question. He rudely dismissed it entirely.

Trump responds to a reporter asking how he voted on the abortion rights amendment: Just stop taking about that pic.twitter.com/sUfFTRkUMO

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 5, 2024

“Just stop talking about that. Go ahead,” he said to the next reporter.

Many pundits agree that this triangulation will be costly for Trump in the election. The gender gap in voter turnout is already very large — most chalk up Joe Biden’s 2020 win to the women’s vote. But in an election when Trump has triumphantly taken CREDIT for overturning Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, women will almost undoubtedly turn out in even higher numbers than the last presidential election.

Especially since Trump is being cagey enough that this is the only question he won’t answer.