It was hard to get the president to talk about abortion at all, but Harris seems to realize that abortion rights are a winning issue
‘Harris has made what is believed to be the first public visit to an abortion clinic by a president or vice president.’‘Harris has made what is believed to be the first public visit to an abortion clinic by a president or vice president.’hen he was still the nominee, Joe Biden’s preferred euphemism for abortion was “Roe”. He would talk about “upholding” Roe v Wade even after June 2022, when the US supreme court struck it down.
Kamala Harris, Biden’s successor at the top of the Democratic ticket following his withdrawal last Sunday, has taken a different approach. The Biden administration had largely delegated abortion rights messaging to the vice-president, out of deference both for Biden’s obvious personal discomfort with the issue and his growing inability to campaign effectively at all.
The move is good politics. Abortion rights are extraordinarily popular, and have only become more so in the years since Dobbs, mobilizing voters who would stay home or vote for Republicans when other issues are more salient. AIt’s not just that abortion, in the abstract, is popular: abortion bans, in particular, are profoundly unpopular.
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