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what's next for Roe v. Wade? It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

On her first day back in public speaking, since testing positive for COVID last week,

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to a crowd of abortion rights supporters at the Emily's List Conference on Tuesday evening.

Her speech, scheduled long in advance, had to be fully rewritten after Justice Samuel Lolito's draft opinion was made public on Monday.

While we heard from Harris was a preview of how the Biden administration

hopes to frame the debate moving forward, channeling its supporters outrage while pitching the

midterm election as a choice between the two very different views of abortion rights.

But for Harris, this moment marks a rare chance to step into the spotlight and use the bully pulpit

to voice the anger that so many Democrats feel.

Alencia Johnson, a Democratic strategist who worked as a senior advisor to the Biden campaign,

told Playbook on Tuesday night, quote,

Our party hasn't figured out the best way to invite people into the conversation.

She saw the Harris speech as a potential turning point.

Quote, I'm hopeful this is the energy she and the president will bring to this fight.

For months, some on the left have gnashed their teeth at President Joe Biden's apparent reticence to even say the word abortion in public. Now, in Harris, they see a change at hand. If Democratic voters are going to be galvanized by the Supreme Court in the same way that Republican voters have traditionally been, it's going to be up to the White House to make it happen. And says Johnson, there's one obvious thing the administration can do towards that end, quote, let Harris loose. But not all Democratic strategists share that view. As Politico's Elena Schneider and David Seidder's report in today's playbook, one Democratic pollster granted anonymity to discuss the issue candidly, Acknowledged that the issue, will help at the margins, but to hold the House or Senate, we need inflation to go away.

One thing that wasn't in Harris' speech or any remarks from Biden on Tuesday, a plan for how the White House would get abortion rights codified into law.

White House officials have dodged whether the administration would call for a filibuster carve-out to protect abortion rights, but it's unlikely there's sufficient support in the Senate for such a reform.

In the wake of the news about the draft opinion overturning Roe, a new political morning council poll

reveals that a clear majority of voters want the court to support abortion rights.

Here's a couple highlights from the poll conducted on Tuesday entirely after the news broke.

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