McAuliffe Banked On The Wine Mom Abortion Vote And It Backfired
November 3, 2021 By Madeline Osburn
Conventional wisdom after the 2020 election was that the GOP had lost the suburban woman vote for the foreseeable future. This belief was compounded a year later as the Texas abortion law seized national media attention, and Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe ran ads aimed at white women voters claiming his opponent Glenn Youngkin wanted to bring the same “far-right” abortion agenda to Virginia. On Tuesday night, this conventional wisdom proved to be utterly useless.
A September Bloomberg report headlined “GOP-Led Abortion Bans Risk Driving Away Voters the Party Needs” quoted Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell claiming “Republicans are already hemorrhaging college-educated suburban voters. … This is an issue that further alienates that exact group of people.”
A similar report in The New York Times said by “warning of Texas-style laws nationwide,” the Democrat party “believes it can use the issue to turn out suburban women in the Virginia governor’s race this fall and the 2022 midterms.”
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