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After Ohio's vote Tuesday to protect abortion rights, Democrats are rushing to get similar measures on the ballot next year in key states such as Arizona, Nevada and Florida — partly to boost President Biden and down-ballot Democrats.
In the face of bleak polling on the economy, abortion continues to be a winning issue for Democrats — one that could motivate otherwise uninspired voters to turn out and keep the White House in the party's hands.
Voters now have explicitly endorsed abortion rights via ballot initiatives in seven states since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year — in California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Vermont and now Ohio.
The wins are boosting confidence among Democrats that similar ballot measures — and candidates who cast the high court's Dobbs ruling as a government assault on individual rights — can help the party ride the backlash in the 2024 elections.In private and with a group of abortion-rights organizers in Miami last month, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has described Democrats' path to victory in 2024 as "Dobbs and Democracy," according to two people familiar with his comments.
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It is crazy to me that we have actually begun to restrict rights in America. It seems if we are devolving and this is just the beginning of having more and more rights taken away.
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