A Washington Post columnist sounded the alarm about a Michigan bellwether congressional district potentially slipping from the Democratic Party’s grasp because local voters aren’t as animated by abortion as they used to be.
The Post’s James Hohmann wrote on Tuesday that he spoke to Democratic operatives on the ground in Michigan who see less enthusiasm for one of the party’s top issues in the district. It prompted him to wonder whether abortion would be a less animating force in elections across the country.
He opened the piece, asking, “What if abortion is not the galvanizing issue on Election Day that Democrats are expecting? What I heard in Michigan recently made me wonder. Here in the 7th District, a congressional bellwether carried by Donald Trump in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, many voters just don’t prioritize the right to choose nearly as much as they did two years ago.”