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DeSantis is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban. I think what he did was a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.

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MisalignedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 75%

Adversarial re-check confirms the prior outcome, with a corrected source list. VERIFIED INDEPENDENTLY: (1) The underlying statement is real - Trump called Florida's six-week ban a 'terrible mistake' on NBC's Meet the Press on Sept. 17, 2023; the EWTN News item carrying that headline loads live and confirms the remark was made 'in reference to Florida's six-week heartbeat abortion ban.' (2) The decisive action is real and directly contrary. Trump's one concrete opportunity to act on the position was his own ballot vote as a Florida resident on Amendment 4, which would have repealed the six-week ban. The CBS News article loads live and is titled 'Trump says he'll vote to uphold Florida's 6-week abortion ban amid conservative backlash.' In it Trump first said 'You need more time than six weeks' and 'I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,' then reversed and said 'I will be voting no for that reason' - a vote to keep in place the very ban he had called a terrible mistake. (3) Amendment 4 drew 57.17% on Nov. 5, 2024 against a 60% supermajority requirement and therefore failed; the six-week ban remains Florida law. OUTCOME TEST: MISALIGNED is defined as voting for or taking measures against the promise's direction, and that is exactly the record - he did not merely fail to act, he publicly announced a vote to preserve the ban. HOSTILE (-1.0) would be too harsh: he never signed or pushed a five- or six-week ban, he continued to say six weeks was too short, and he did not campaign against Amendment 4 as a cause. NO_OPPORTUNITY and IGNORED are ruled out because he had and used the opportunity. ABSTAINED is ruled out because he took a position rather than avoiding one. SYMMETRY: a politician of either party who called a law a terrible mistake and then publicly announced a vote to keep that law would draw the same label; no partisan adjustment applied. CONFIDENCE held at 0.75 rather than higher because a genuine interpretive question remains - Trump framed his 'no' as opposition to Amendment 4's breadth while simultaneously restating that six weeks is too short, so the vote is against the promise's direction in effect more than in stated intent. SOURCE CORRECTION: the prior rating's two NPR URLs could not be loaded during this verification (repeated 60s timeouts, not confirmed dead), so they are not carried forward; they are replaced with sources confirmed live and on point. I also did not carry forward the prior rating's reliance on 2025 abortion-related executive orders (Hyde Amendment enforcement, EMTALA guidance) - those concern federal funding and emergency care, a different policy axis from gestational limits, and leaning on them would overstate the case. No evidence was found of any action by Trump to loosen early-gestation bans.

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