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marmar

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Mon Jul 22, 2024, 08:18 AM Jul 2024

It's Kamala's Campaign Now


It’s Kamala’s Campaign Now
Her path to victory might hinge on her ability to unify the party around the one issue that nearly all Democratic women agree on: abortion.

JAMILAH KING
Editorial Director


(Mother Jones) On December 19, 2023 the vice president’s office quietly launched a new policy initiative. “Kamala Harris will embark on a nationwide reproductive freedoms tour,” read the press release, “to continue fighting back against extremist attacks around the country.”

Harris supporters have worried throughout her time as second-in-command that the Biden administration has saddled her with unwinnable issues, like voting rights and immigration. These were problems with far-off solutions in our current political moment. Abortion, though, is different. Polls, while not always reliable, show that a whopping 89 percent of Democratic women support national laws that guarantee the right to abortion.

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She’s now tasked with energizing a Democratic ticket that is deeply fractured around a host of issues, including Israel’s war on Gaza. But the party does seem motivated, and unified, by one key plank of the platform: abortion.

Harris’s chance to win might depend on her ability to make voters believe that she is their last chance to save reproductive rights. Former President Donald Trump has already bragged about ending abortion rights and his vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, has advocated for a national abortion ban. ..............(more)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/its-kamalas-campaign-now-2024-kamala-harris-profile-trump-biden/





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