How do you think this will play with the average voter for the 2020 elections?
Democratic groups gear up to use abortion rights as attack on GOP in 2020
Democrats are gearing up to use abortion rights as an attack against Republicans in 2020, seeking to paint the party as too extreme after the passage of sweeping laws restricting the procedure by GOP legislatures across the country.
Presidential contenders, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), are already taking the issue head-on, most recently joining the Democrats’ condemnation of a comprehensive abortion ban signed into law in Alabama that bans the procedure in almost all circumstances, including rape and incest.
Democratic groups are mobilizing as well, hoping to put the abortion debate front and center in state and local races in 2020 as they look to put Republicans on the defensive at a time when the GOP lost the House last year, in large part by losing suburban female voters.
Abortion was already expected to be a key issue in 2020 as anti-abortion rights advocates grow hopeful of overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in the Supreme Court after the appointment of two new conservative justices by President Trump.
“We are buckled in. We are ready to go, but we’re not going to be playing defense,†Jennifer Holdsworth, a senior political strategist for the Democratic firm MWWPR, told The Hill.
Holdsworth added that groups such as Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and individual state organizations in Ohio, Missouri, Georgia and Alabama would help “lead the fight.”
Abortion on demand is the #1 commandment for Democrats, and they demand that all people running for office in their party toe the line. But, how will it play pushing the murder of the unborn, which is done mostly because having a baby would be inconvenient, as a giant issue for elections? Especially when Democrats have shown themselves to be massively extreme as of late, defending late term abortion right up to the point where the child will soon be delivered? That they are defending letting a child born alive from an abortion die? Republicans can simply ask any Dem candidate “what restrictions on abortion do you approve of?” to show how extreme they are, because the Democrat will not approve of any.
How will this play for the average voter? You might get polls showing a bare majority in support, but, that doesn’t mean that voters approve of the extreme views of the abortion/murder groups, and certainly do not want it being “front and center.” Especially with all the other extremist stuff Democrats will be running on.
