Abortion won’t be the winning issue in 2024
By
Gabrielle M. Etzel
October 20, 2024 2:00 pm
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Vice President Kamala Harris and down-ticket Democrats may have overplayed their hand on abortion by making it the primary focus of their campaigns this election.
A close look at recent election results and public polling reveals that, while Democrats have an advantage on the topic of abortion, it is not likely to prove determinative, and their focus on it may harm them with voters worried about immigration, inflation, and other major concerns facing the nation.
“Democrats are kind of like a degenerate gambler going back and back and back to the same slot machine that they got their first win on, and they’re now going to start to lose,” conservative strategist Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, told the Washington Examiner.
Harris has made advocating abortion her central focus, blaming the state laws against abortion passed in 25 states since the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision on former President Donald Trump. She has also promised that she will oversee the passage of abortion rights legislation should voters also deliver a Democratic-majority in Congress. She’s also portrayed Trump as opposed to in vitro fertilization and cast herself as the candidate of freedom.
But Trump, and to a lesser extent the GOP as a whole, has aggressively moved toward the center on abortion policy. They’ve successfully raised the political salience of the border crisis and the high cost of living. Now, they appear in a strong position to make gains in the first presidential election following the demise of Roe v. Wade.
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