Anticipating the political focus on GOP dramas in New Hampshire, Biden on Tuesday plans an event in Virginia with Vice President Harris, accompanied by their respective spouses, to tie Trump to abortion restrictions. They plan to appeal to Americans who oppose state bans on abortion and on reproductive health care, spawned by the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“We stand with the vast majority of Americans who support a woman’s right to choose, and continue to call on Congress to restore the protections of Roe in federal law once and for all,” the president said in a White House statement released this morning.
▪ The Hill: Democrats look to abortion politics to draw voters to the polls.
▪ The Hill: Harris takes center stage in the abortion fight.
▪ CNN: Here’s the Biden-Harris ad about abortion rights, titled “Forced.”
The campaign event, on the 51st anniversary of the high court’s landmark Roe decision, is to be backed by ads that showcase actual women and health care providers who have been impacted by what the Biden-Harris campaign calls “Trump’s abortion bans,” enacted with “chaos and cruelty” in conservative states. Trump takes credit for state abortion bans, boasting, “I was able to kill Roe v. Wade.”
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a new digital ad describing House Republicans as “anti-abortion extremists.” Punchbowl News reports that the ad shows a clip of Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany, a former press secretary in the Trump White House, warning Republicans that the party continues to lose on abortion rights ballot initiatives. The ad puts a spotlight on Reps. Young Kim (R-Calif.), Brandon Williams (R-N.Y.) and Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.), GOP lawmakers in congressional districts Biden won in 2020. The DCCC released a similar digital ad last June.
The Biden-Harris team wants to reprise the 2022 fervor when voters turned out to protest new and proposed abortion restrictions. Biden surrogates plan to headline abortion-related events this week in Michigan, Arizona and North Carolina.
