GOP Rep. Nancy Mace warns her party that extremely strict abortion bans do not fly with most people.

GALLAGHER: Let me just ask you. Should Republicans support a national federal abortion ban? Yes or no. Should Republicans support a nationwide ban on abortion? I have good friends who say we should. I said wait a minute. I thought the point in overturning Roe v. Wade is that there is no constitutional right to an abortion on a federal level. It should not be a federal decision. I am going to tell you. It is going to cost us dearly at the ballot box. I don’t often find myself agreeing with Nancy Mace. She is the moderate Republican from South Carolina. Here is what she said to Jake Tapper yesterday on CNN.

TAPPER: Do you think your party will face any sort of electoral blowback for these bans? Many of which do not align with polling in terms of what people want. Even in conservative states people want some sort of middle ground. Maybe a 12 week ban, a 15 week ban, no ban for victims of rape and incest. Do you think your party will suffer at the polls?

MACE: We suffered in 2022 and I do believe we’ll suffer in 2024 if we don’t have a message that shows compassion to women, both for women’s rights and the right to life. You can balance the two. I would garner that if you were to do a ballot referendum on abortion in a conservative state like South Carolina, the majority of voters would not be supportive of a six-week ban that allowed very few exceptions for a very short period of time and required women to have their rapes reported to police. That’s really not going to fly with most people, whether they’re men or women. I saw this in my own district, in a very purple district last year. I saw how the issue swayed voters. It was the number two issue in our race.

GALLAGHER: Is she right?