Washington:

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will push the combat for abortion rights in a sequence of occasions this week, highlighting what Democrats imagine is political kryptonite for Donald Trump in November’s election.

Harris is being promoted by the Biden marketing campaign because the face of the reproductive rights problem, delivering a message that if Republican former president Trump makes a comeback, he’ll search to impose additional restrictions on abortion.

Harris travels to the swing state of Wisconsin to launch a nationwide tour on the difficulty on Monday, the 51st anniversary of the historic Roe v. Wade court docket resolution legalizing abortion.

A conservative-leaning Supreme Courtroom that includes three Trump-appointed judges struck that ruling down in 2022.

Biden is assembly consultants on reproductive healthcare on the White Home.

“On this present day and day by day, Vice President Harris and I are preventing to guard ladies’s reproductive freedom in opposition to Republican officers’ harmful, excessive, and out-of-touch agenda,” Biden mentioned in a press release Monday.

Harris and Biden will then make their first joint look on the 2024 marketing campaign path with a serious rally on the difficulty in Virginia on Tuesday, together with First Woman Jill Biden and “Second Gentleman” Douglas Emhoff, Harris’s husband.

Biden’s marketing campaign more and more sees the difficulty as a vote winner after Trump repeatedly bragged that he needs to be given credit score for the highest US court docket’s resolution to overturn the federally protected proper to abortion.

“He’s proud. Proud that girls throughout our nation are struggling? Proud that girls have been robbed of a basic freedom?” Harris was to say in Wisconsin in accordance with excerpts launched by her workplace.

For the reason that court docket’s resolution, 14 US states have imposed outright bans on abortion, whereas seven others have imposed deadlines, in accordance with a tracker within the New York Instances

‘Private affect’ 

Biden and the opposite audio system on Tuesday will “underscore what’s at stake for reproductive freedom in 2024 — together with the specter of a MAGA Republican-led nationwide abortion ban,” the Biden-Harris marketing campaign mentioned.

The Biden marketing campaign can also be launching tv and social media adverts focusing on swing voters in battleground states, specializing in the “private affect that Trump’s abortion bans have on ladies and suppliers.”

The difficulty stays a seismic fault line in US politics and society. 1000’s of anti-abortion activists rallied within the snow Friday in Washington for an annual “March for Life.”

Democrats have notably seized on the difficulty after Republicans misplaced a sequence of votes centered on abortion rights in off-year elections final yr in Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia.

Polls repeatedly present a transparent majority of Individuals help continued entry to secure abortion, whilst conservative teams push to restrict the process — or ban it outright.

Democrat campaigners probably would goal areas the place abortion rights are below risk, as it isn’t as “broad brush” a difficulty as migration or crime, Melissa DeRosa, a Democratic strategist, informed AFP.

“Reproductive freedom goes to be a difficulty that issues in locations the place it isn’t already safe,” she mentioned. “That is going to be one thing that is going to be strategically deployed in areas the place it issues.”

Harris’s appearances are additionally a part of a Biden marketing campaign technique to get the vp out in entrance of a public with whom she has, in accordance with opinion polls, struggled to attach.

Republicans have made her a specific goal, criticizing her as being unprepared as next-in-line to the presidency ought to something occur to 81-year-old Biden.

However the marketing campaign believes her voice may very well be essential in swaying ladies, ethnic minority and younger voters — and he or she received reward final week for her abortion messaging from an unlikely quarter.

“What Kamala is doing, proper or improper, could be very highly effective amongst younger ladies,” Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany informed conservative Fox Information.

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