Florida will impose a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy beginning Wednesday, a day the Biden campaign hopes will start galvanizing enough Sunshine State voters who oppose the law to tip the increasingly GOP-leaning state back to the Democratic column in November.
President Joe Biden speaks about reproductive freedom on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla. Biden is in Florida planning to assail the state’s upcoming six-week abortion ban and similar restrictions nationwide. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
If President Biden pulls off a win in Florida in November, his path to a second term would significantly improve.Mr. Biden visited Tampa last week, his second trip to the state this year, to highlight the looming limits on abortion. Ms. Harris will make the case that Mr. Biden’s GOP November rival, former President Donald Trump, is to blame for the new restrictions in Florida. They were ushered through the legislature and signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis after the Supreme Court tossed out Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
Mr. Trump won the state in 2016 and 2020 and the state’s 2022 midterm elections held fast to the predicted “red wave,” thanks to a shift in the electorate that has added nearly 900,000 active GOP voters to the rolls. Republicans now outnumber Democrat voters by 7% in Florida. The Biden campaign team believes it can also win over some of the 155,000 Republicans who voted for Nikki Haley in the GOP primary, mostly on the abortion issue.
“I say we should move Florida into our swing-state list,” Mr. Cannon said during the RealClearPolitics radio show on SiriusXM.
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