More Than 2 Million Americans Backed Trump and Abortion Access

For an issue that was considered central to the US presidential race, abortion rights turned out to be largely untethered to national politics.

Case in point: At least 2.6 million voters cast ballots in favor of both Donald Trump and state-level abortion protections.

Seven of ten states where residents voted directly on abortion-focused ballot measures passed constitutional amendments to expand or protect access this week. Two of those states also voted to elect the Republican nominee. He led in two others — Arizona and Nevada — as of Wednesday afternoon.

At least one in seven Trump voters in states with ballot measures chose ...