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Abortion Was A Winning Issue – Just Not for Kamala Harris

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

After abortion access wins in 2022, Democrats made a bet that voters backing abortion on states’ ballot measures would also back Democratic candidates. WSJ’s Laura Kusisto explains why that bet turned out to be wrong. Further Listening: The Scramble Is on to Fill Trump’s Cabinet  What a Republican Congress Could Mean for Trump  Further Reading: Voters Continued to Back Abortion Rights. It Didn’t Help Democrats.  A State-by-State Guide to Abortion Access in the U.S.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On the campaign trail, one issue Vice President Kamala Harris leaned into was abortion rights.

0:11.5

And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom as president of the United

0:19.8

States, I will proudly sign it into law.

0:24.2

Harris was very articulate spokeswoman for these women

0:27.6

who had not been able to get care for women who were sort of outraged

0:30.9

the rollback of their rights.

0:32.8

That's our colleague Laura Casisto.

0:35.2

She says that the Harris campaign hoped abortion rights would energize voters

0:39.1

to come out and vote blue. They spent big on ad buys across swing states, emphasizing why

0:45.4

nationwide access to abortion should be restored. One of the ads, certainly one of the toughest

0:50.4

ads that they had, was with a woman named Hadley Duval in Kentucky. And the ad opens,

0:57.0

and she is making breakfast for herself. And she tells this story about being sexually abused

1:04.2

by her stepfather until she got pregnant at the age of 12. I didn't know what it meant to be

1:10.2

pregnant at all.

1:11.8

But I had options.

1:14.5

Because Donald Trump overturned Roe v. Wade,

1:17.9

girls and women all over the country

1:20.1

have lost the right to choose.

1:23.4

Even for rape or incest.

1:26.7

Donald Trump did this. He took away our-

1:29.9

Trump appointed three conservative justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And for Harris,

1:36.0

that was the message that they were really trying to get across. So whatever Trump might say

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