Natasha Korecki

Donald Trump's video statement on abortion Monday — saying the legalities around the procedure should be up to the states — came after months of his publicly and privately discussing the possibility of a federal abortion ban.

Passing legislation to codify federal abortion rights would require overcoming significant challenges: winning full control of Congress, piercing the filibuster and beating legal obstacles.

Democrats are making sure Trump pays for Roe v. Wade's dismantling, one state at a time.

The president's re-election campaign, meanwhile, was sending out some thinly veiled jabs about the former president's legal woes.

Abortion is at the center of President Joe Biden's re-election campaign — an improbability for a politician who long expressed his personal discomfort with the practice.

The president's mood has been buoyed by recent polling and his visits to battleground states, as Trump sits in a Manhattan courtroom for his criminal trial.

The announcement of a $500,000 infusion into efforts to enshrine abortion rights into the state's constitution, comes a day before the state's six-week abortion ban goes into effect.

Reluctance to be seen as backing Trump was most often cited as a reason for the skittishness of many of the corporate donors and consultants who spoke to NBC News.

While the specter of the 1968 convention still hovers over Chicago, planners call it alarmist thinking.

In an interview, Brandon Johnson said he wouldn't tolerate chaos but stopped short of committing to remove encampments should they appear in the run-up to the convention.