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You Can’t Hide Anymore
In the New Yorker magazine, Susan Glasser writes that Donald Trump is directly responsible for the Supreme Court of the United States overturning Roe vs Wade in 2022.
There is no debate about it, no matter how much the GOP tries to backtrack and pretend otherwise. Period.
Over the past almost two years, the Democratic Party has done a good job reminding women voters about which party is working against their interests and restricting their freedoms. It isn’t a mystery.
On abortion, Arizona, and the 2024 Presidential election.
Just about everyone knows that Donald Trump was for abortion before he was against it… To right-wing audiences, he frequently and loudly brags about being the author of Roe’s destruction. Bragging is his happy place; of course he cannot resist taking credit for a historic accomplishment. “I was able to kill Roe v. Wade,” he exulted on social media in May of last year. “I did it and I am proud to have done it,” he said on a Fox News town hall earlier this year. “Nobody else was going to get that done but me.”…
The problem for Trump is that this is a losing position with voters—millions of whom have gone to the polls, in red states such as Kansas and in battlegrounds such as Michigan, to keep abortion legal in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, which allows individual states to set abortion policy. Since Dobbs, surveys have shown support for reproductive rights at record highs, and Trump himself blamed “the abortion issue” for Republicans’ failure to win back the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections.
[An ad] features Biden himself blaming Trump for taking away women’s “fundamental freedom to control their own bodies” and placing women’s lives in danger as a result. If Trump returns to the White House, Biden asks, “What freedom will you lose next?” He ends the spot—part of a seven-figure ad buy in the state focussing on abortion—by looking into the camera. “I will fight like hell to get your freedom back,” he promises. If Biden wins in November, I have little doubt that we will look back on the events of this week in Arizona as one of the reasons why.
Well, He’s Wrong!
Bon Appetit
Prickly in Arizona
Back to the Future
Restricting women’s choices and limiting their freedoms does indeed have consequences.
An influential political analyst now states that Democrats are better positioned in Arizona and other states where the GOP is hell-bent on rolling the clock back.
An elections handicapper moved its rating of the Arizona Senate race from “toss-up” to “leans Democratic” in response to a state Supreme Court ruling reinstating a 19th-century abortion ban.
Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said in a release Wednesday that it moved its rating toward Democrats because of the “increased importance” of abortion rights following the court decision and the recent fundraising strength of the likely Democratic nominee, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.).
Trump Will Impose Greater Restrictions if He Regains Power
Truth #1 — He Doesn’t Have a Clue
Truth #2 — The GOP Will Be Punished in November 2024
Attribution for the above cartoons: Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
No Way Out for the GOP
Elaine Kamarck writes for the “Brookings Institution” that there isn’t an easy way out for the GOP, and abortion could well become the most decisive issue of the 2024 Election.
Republicans are thrashing around trying to get themselves out of the abortion ban they have tried to win for so many decades…
[W]e find Republicans desperately trying to find a position on the issue that makes their base and the other parts of their coalition happy. It doesn’t exist, and here’s why—abortion is an integral part of health care for women…
And more referenda are coming in November. The expectation is that at least some, if not most, of the pro-choice voters likely to be mobilized by the abortion issue will help Democrats up and down the ballot. As a result, Democratic campaigns are working hard to make sure the public knows that Republicans are responsible…
Republicans will try to come up with ways of softening their stances—but in the end, this could be the most decisive issue in the election...
The following table shows the states that are likely to have referenda in November.
Most Americans Oppose the GOP on This Important Issue
Arizona — The Exceptional State
This Won’t Work, Lady
Your Modern Republican Party
The Absolute Worst of White Trash
The Worst of the Worst
Just Let Us Do Our Thing
Serious Implosion
More Dysfunction in Republican Ranks
A Message from “The Boss”
Cultish
In a Fair World
Remember This on Election Day in Arizona