His party was quick to point fingers in his direction, but Trump had other ideas. He quickly turned the tables and blamed the candidates themselves for their "too strict" stances on abortion.
Trump endorsed many of the candidates who ran this past November. Many of them were politically untested and, according to experts, did not articulate their plan of action well enough to voters.
They were also not able to effectively counteract the Democrats' abortion arguments. Trump posted his opinion on the abortion issue on Truth Social, saying that the issue was "poorly handled" by Republicans.
“It was the ‘abortion issue,’ poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions...that lost large numbers of Voters,” he wrote.