Joe Biden’s campaign is seizing on the Florida court ruling to argue it is a sign of what would come of Donald Trump’s presidencyFlorida voters haven’t given the state’s electoral votes to a Democrat since Barack Obama’s re-election victory in 2012. But after the state supreme court ruling yesterday allowing a six-week abortion ban passed by its Republican lawmakers to go into effect, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the Biden-Harris campaign manager, said the president has a shot at winning the Sunshine state in November.“We are entering the general election with multiple pathways to 270 electoral votes – something Team Trump is not afforded. That includes investing in Florida as a pathway to victory: a state where President Biden has a compelling story of results, Trump and [Republican US senator] Rick Scott’s extreme agenda is making Floridians’ lives worse, and the Democratic coalition is growing and energized,” she wrote in a memo.With an abortion amendment officially on the ballot this November in Florida, President Biden and Vice President Harris and their commitment to fighting back against Donald Trump and Rick Scott’s attacks on reproductive freedom will help mobilize and expand the electorate in the state, given the overwhelming majority of Floridians support abortion rights. And Florida Republicans will be forced to defend their cruel, indefensible support of this abortion ban.Florida’s bans – like those put forward by Republican elected officials across the country – are putting the health and lives of millions of women at risk. These extreme laws take away women’s freedom to make their own health care decisions and threaten physicians with jail time simply for providing the medical care that they were trained to provide. Continue reading…
Joe Biden’s campaign is seizing on the Florida court ruling to argue it is a sign of what would come of Donald Trump’s presidency
Florida voters haven’t given the state’s electoral votes to a Democrat since Barack Obama’s re-election victory in 2012. But after the state supreme court ruling yesterday allowing a six-week abortion ban passed by its Republican lawmakers to go into effect, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the Biden-Harris campaign manager, said the president has a shot at winning the Sunshine state in November.
“We are entering the general election with multiple pathways to 270 electoral votes – something Team Trump is not afforded. That includes investing in Florida as a pathway to victory: a state where President Biden has a compelling story of results, Trump and [Republican US senator] Rick Scott’s extreme agenda is making Floridians’ lives worse, and the Democratic coalition is growing and energized,” she wrote in a memo.
With an abortion amendment officially on the ballot this November in Florida, President Biden and Vice President Harris and their commitment to fighting back against Donald Trump and Rick Scott’s attacks on reproductive freedom will help mobilize and expand the electorate in the state, given the overwhelming majority of Floridians support abortion rights. And Florida Republicans will be forced to defend their cruel, indefensible support of this abortion ban.
Florida’s bans – like those put forward by Republican elected officials across the country – are putting the health and lives of millions of women at risk. These extreme laws take away women’s freedom to make their own health care decisions and threaten physicians with jail time simply for providing the medical care that they were trained to provide.
