CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed President Joe Biden’s campaign co-chair about abortion — an issue on which, according to Tapper, Biden has been “all over the map.”

In an interview of State of the Union Sunday, the CNN anchor confronted former Gov. Mitch Landrieu — who is the co-chair of the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign — about the president’s past rhetoric on abortion.

Here’s how Tapper summed up Biden’s history on the subject.

“I know that the Biden campaign, the Biden-Harris campaign, sees support for abortion rights as a real asset for November. I have to note that in his 50 years in politics — and I’ve been covering him for, I don’t know, 25 of them — Joe Biden has been all over the map on abortion. In ’74, he said Roe v. Wade ‘went too far’ and that ‘a woman should not have the sole right to say what should happen to her body.’ That was a long time ago. Of course, in 2006, he said, ‘I do not view abortion as a choice and a right.’ Just this year, he said, ‘I’ve never been supportive of, you know, it’s my body. I can do what I want with it,’ By his own admission, Biden is an odd man out with his party on abortion.”

The CNN anchor went on to ask, “Do you think his own long, complicated history on this issue, do you think it muddies his message and undermines the contrast with Donald Trump?”

Landrieu started his reply with a lengthy critique of former President Donald Trump, before finally addressing Tapper’s question.

“Joe Biden obviously has evolved over time, but in the last eight years of his life and since his presidency, he has been very strong in his support of a very simple notion that he trusts women to make decisions about their reproductive health,” Landrieu said. “Donald Trump trust the states. That is kind of where it is right now, and that is where both of them say they will govern from.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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