Democrats are hopeful that the looming threat to Roe v. Wade could provide the strongest opportunity yet to energize their voters heading into an election year in which Republicans have been expected to dominate in Texas and beyond.
for Texas’ 30th Congressional District, was skeptical that her party wouldn’t squander the opportunity.
“Honestly, we have to now focus our attention on November,” she said. “The Senate is not going to take any action to protect women, to protect privacy, to protect reproductive freedom, because we don’t have a large enough majority. So what does this mean? This means we have to win more elections.”Republicans have long pushed for overturning Roe since the case was decided in 1973.
Anti-abortion activists argue that Democrats are the ones out of touch on abortion. They acknowledge the polling on Roe v. Wade does not appear favorable to the GOP but said that’s because most people do not fully understand the landmark case’s impact and what its overturning could mean. Several Texas Republican leaders have so far had a restrained response to the potential for the end of Roe, focusing their immediate comments on condemning the nearly unprecedentedAbbott, backed by an eight-figure campaign operation that spends lavishly on polling and other data, was noticeably quiet in the immediate firestorm following the leak.
Seago said Republicans “have a lot of education to do about the implications of Roe” and “have to overcome the sky-is-falling rhetoric from the left.”O’Rourke said the Roe v. Wade news brings the issue of abortion rights even more into focus for voters, including those who were already on his side as well as those who were not.
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