The Biden campaign is sharpening its efforts to call out former President Donald Trump for what it casts as “chaos and cruelty” on the issue of abortion as women across the country grapple with a patchwork of tightening restrictions.
The crux of their message: “Donald Trump is to blame.”
The messaging push comes one day after the Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, who filed a lawsuit last week to end a pregnancy that she and her doctors say threatens her life and future fertility. The lawsuit is believed to be one of the first attempts in the country by an individual seeking a court-ordered abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
Monday’s ruling, Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a call with reporters, is the “latest development in the shocking, horrifying and heartbreaking story,” seeking to tie the case directly to Trump’s policies. She noted that Cox’s doctors “were threatened with a lifetime in jail sentence by Donald Trump’s-endorsed MAGA Republican (Texas Attorney General) Ken Paxton.” Cox eventually left the state to seek an abortion before the Texas Supreme Court’s ruling.
Campaign officials view abortion as a key galvanizing issue for general election voters heading into 2024 – and one where they have the upper hand, pointing to turnout and enthusiasm among Democratic voters in the 2022 midterm elections, as well as statewide races in 2023.
They have work to do: A national Wall Street Journal poll out last week found that Trump narrowly leads Biden in a hypothetical 2024 presidential rematch, with Biden weighed down by relatively soft support among “disaffected Democrats.” Forty-seven percent of registered voters in the US currently say they’d support Trump and 43% say they’d support Biden. Abortion is one of the issues where the…
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