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The religious right is losing its grip as candidates respond to a voter majority that doesn't support a federal abortion ban

When Donald Trump recalled how his three US supreme court justices helped repeal the nationwide right to abortion, the audience rose to its feet and erupted in whistles, whoops and prolonged applause. But even as the former president basked in the religious right's moment of triumph, he went on to deliver a warning.

I will say politically, it's a very tough, it's a very tough decision for some people, but very, very hard on elections. Very, very hard," Trump told a gathering of Christian conservatives in the ballroom of a Washington hotel. We had midterms and this was an issue, you know."