The Supreme Court’s decision that overturned Roe v. Wade is a factor in this year’s fundraising for Senate races. 22% of Americans cite abortion as their top voting issue, up from 18% in July, a recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found.
If Democrats manage to keep their grip on the U.S. Senate in November’s midterm elections, it won’t have been all about the money — but their success with fundraising will have helped.
A number of the Democratic candidates in battleground states could have a fundraising edge because they are “incumbents who aren’t needing to jump over all the hurdles of running for office for the first time,” said Michael Beckel, research director at Issue One, a nonpartisan watchdog group that aims to reduce the influence of big money in politics.
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June that overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that established a constitutional right to an abortion, is also a factor in this year’s fundraising. In order to codify Roe into law, Democrats would need to secure 60 votes due to Senate rules, with some of those votes potentially coming from Republican senators who sometimes buck their party. But Beckel said regardless of how many seats Senate Democrats control, if they’re in a majority, they’re going to be able to do more on the issue of abortion than if they’re in the minority.
“One of the realities in the post-Citizens United world is it’s gotten harder to keep track of total spending, because there are so many different vehicles that have so many different reporting requirements,” said Beckel, referring to a 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that struck down a ban on political spending by corporations.
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