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Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Rugu Munovalin. It's Tuesday. Vice President Kamala Harris, recently sat down with abortion rights activists, will tell you what they had to say. It's her Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Back in July, a coalition of civil rights and reproductive rights groups pushed President

Joe Biden for continued leadership in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning

Roe v. Wade, even going as far as requesting a POTUS meeting.

On Monday evening, they got their meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris, who spent about 90

minutes with the group's

leaders. Her message, attendees said, echoed the rising sentiment in Democratic circles

that abortion rights stand to be a key motivating factor in the midterms, and she said

the Biden administration would continue raising the salience of the issue. The Reverend Al Sharpton,

founder of the National Action Network,

told Playbook that while Harris didn't go into specifics, she said there would be more

action and it would be a priority. Harris made the case that the abortion issue had to be

made relevant to all voters, and she touted a blueprint the administration has pushed for months,

that the abortion decision was just the

beginning of an attack on Americans' privacy, with other rights now in the crosshairs.

One suggestion that caught Harris' attention was the idea of using pop culture to help connect

with voters.

Monica Simpson, executive director of Sister Song, told Harris that that was one of the missing pieces,

and noted how Pea Valley, a TV series on stars about a Delta strip club, featured an episode

this summer depicting a young girl's journey to receive care at Mississippi's sole abortion clinic,

one loosely based on Jackson Women's Health Organization, which was at the center of June's

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