The Biden campaign will hit the airwaves in battleground states with its first abortion-focused ad of the year, featuring stark, emotional testimony from a woman personally affected by a state abortion ban who lays the blame directly on former President Donald Trump.

It comes as the campaign is launching a full-court press this week to put abortion rights front and center in the 2024 race, including with events headlined by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The push marks the campaignā€™s first organized effort to emphasize the issue, seeking to further galvanize voters around reproductive rights in the first presidential election after the Supreme Court ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion.

The new TV spot also follows Bidenā€™s ramped-up attacks against Trump in the opening weeks of the year, portraying him as a direct threat to democracy. Itā€™s part of the campaignā€™s efforts to warn of Trumpā€™s plans and positions ahead of a possible matchup in November.

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    6 months ago

    So if thereā€™s no candidate left of center, you rather vote full right or not vote at all? Just curious not trying to start anything

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      6 months ago

      I think he just needed to vent, assuming he isnā€™t saying ā€œDonā€™t vote for Joe, Democrats donā€™t do shitā€ sincerely. He has a point when he says they need to insert a god damn spine. But this countries politics is fucked, and thereā€™s not any systematic change thatā€™s going to be happening by the time the election rolls around. So we get what we get.

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        6 months ago

        Centrists assume all dissatisfaction is disloyalty. This is because they are actually represented by the party that could have codified roe but didnā€™t feel like it.

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      Centerists continue to fuck us in the primaries and then are gobsmacked when we suggest we wonā€™t show up in the general.