Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva said that she expects from both candidates for president of the USA – Republican Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, if elected, to adopt a "very pragmatic" approach to the IMF and the World Bank.
Georgieva said in an interview with Reuters that the American people will decide who they choose as their leader on November 5, and that she has had a positive experience working with current and past US administrations, including Trump's.
Donald Trump is having difficulty finding a coherent message on the issues of abortion and reproductive rights, the Associated Press noted in a commentary material, cited by BTA.
The former president either constantly changes his opinion or gives abstract, contradictory, and sometimes frankly nonsensical answers to questions on a topic that has become the main thrust of his Republican Party's campaign for this year's presidential election, AP writes.
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Trump is trying to win over voters, especially women, who are skeptical of his views, primarily because three of his appointees to the US Supreme Court were the deciding vote in overturning abortion rights for the whole country two years ago.
The latest example comes from this week, when the Republican presidential nominee said some laws affecting abortion rights were "too strict" and must be "reworked".
"This will be reworked," he said at a campaign event before an all-female audience organized by Fox News. at Georgia State yesterday. "Will they do it, will you do it – in the end, everything is decided by the voice of the people. And these laws will be revised because there is already unrest in these states," he said.
Trump did not specify whether he would take any action in this regard if he wins the election next month and did not say which laws and which states he was targeting, nor did he explain what he meant by "revised," the AP said.
At the same time, he contradicted himself by talking about the strict abortion bans imposed in Republican-controlled states after the landmark decision was overturned in 1973. in the case "Roe v. Wade". Trump recently said he would vote against an amendment to the Florida state constitution in a referendum there on the issue of abortion rights after the sixth week of pregnancy.
Trump has bounced back and forth between praising the judges he appointed who helped dismantle federal abortion protections and trying to appear more neutral on the issue, the AP notes.
About 60 percent of Americans think their state should generally give every woman the right to a legal abortion if she wants to end a pregnancy for any reason, according to a poll co-founded by the AP Center for Public Affairs Research (AP-NORC).
Seven states have voters, including conservatives, either voting to protect abortion rights or reject attempts to impose abortion restrictions on statewide ballots over the past two years.
During the pre-election televised debates with Kamala Harris on October 1, Trump wrote on his social platform "Truth Social" that he would veto the national abortion ban. "Everybody knows that I would not support a federal ban on abortion under any circumstances and in fact would veto it," the GOP presidential candidate's post reads.