Trump’s former campaign manager warns abortion could provide “rocket fuel” to Biden’s re-election bid. A Democratic pollster says it will motivate voters “as long as sex is salient.”
But Republican strategists face a no-win conundrum. Retreating on abortion would infuriate the majority of their base that wants to ban the procedure, while their current strategy is alienating a formidable slice of swing voters who favor some GOP positions but oppose the party’s stance on reproductive rights.
The end of Roe v. Wade drove voters toward Democrats in the 2022 elections and since then, abortion opponents have lost a series of state elections: a ballot measure in Kansas, this year’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race and now Ohio’s Issue 1 ballot measure.
“There shouldn’t be any sugarcoating over what happened last night. It was a major setback in what became a very public fight between pro-choice and pro-life groups,”
The GOP’s creeping fear is that abortion could propel an unpopular President Joe Biden to re-election.