As protests mount across the country at even against Supreme Court justices….
The US Senate will vote on a Bill over rule the High Court’s expected rule against Roe v Wade and womens ‘Right’ to an abortion….
The Senate vote is for the media…
It will NOT pass…
Democrats across the country are turning to make the issue a broader issue of ‘Rights’ for every American , no matter what party….
And the talking of a National Ban of abortions with a Republican sweep in Congress….
That against poll after poll showing support across the political spectrum FOR the availability of abortion access…
Ah?
The ‘Donald ‘ has be absent on this one so far….
SENATE TEES UP ABORTION VOTE — Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER is expected to file cloture today on a bill by Sen. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL (D-Conn.) that would enshrine a statutory right to abortion nationwide. The move will set up the upper chamber for a Wednesday vote — though the roll call will almost certainly fail to garner the 60 votes needed to clear the filibuster, as happened to a similar proposal earlier this year.
— Among Democrats, there’s a debate over whether the party is better off trying to go it alone on this legislation (all the better to use to pummel the GOP on the campaign trail), or to take a more bipartisan approach by calling up an alternative to the Blumenthal bill that is narrower in its scope and backed by two Republican senators supportive of abortion rights: Maine’s SUSAN COLLINS and Alaska’s LISA MURKOWSKI. (Schumer, ever the political animal, has chosen the former approach.)
— Republicans are already previewing the talking points they’ll employ as they move to filibuster the bill. As we reported last week in Playbook, the NRSC is encouraging GOP candidates to change the topic from abortion rights overall to less-popular facets of the issue where Republicans feel they can win…
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DEMOCRATS SEIZE ON MCCONNELL’S NATIONAL ABORTION BAN REMARKS — Democratic strategists are salivating over comments Senate Minority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL made in a USA Today interview that published Saturday. In it, McConnell suggested a nationwide abortion ban was “possible” if Republicans take over Washington.
— What he said: “If the leaked opinion [overturning Roe] became the final opinion, legislative bodies — not only at the state level but at the federal level — could certainly legislate in that area,” he said, adding that a ruling overturning Roe would bring the nation to a “point that should be resolved one way or another in the legislative process.”
— Underlining the point, he added: “I don’t think it’s much of a secret where Senate Republicans stand on that issue.”
The comments have lit a fire under Democrats, who’ve been panicked about their midterm prospects until now. And where last week enabled them to change the conversation from inflation to the likelihood of Roe being overturned, McConnell’s comments …
- All but ensure another week of abortion-related headlines that Republicans may not like.
- Give Democrats a potent response to one of the arguments we’ve heard from conservatives since the release of the draft opinion overturning Roe. Whereas some Republicans have talked about allowing states to set their own abortion laws, McConnell’s words suggest that Republicans actually support nationwide restrictions, decided in Washington instead of individual states.
- Put Republican candidates in the position of having to answer whether they agree with the GOP leader and support nationwide restrictions on access to abortion….
The real question is how big is the issue itself.
I think it is clear that the majority of Americans do not support overturning Roe.However, how that opposition will reflect in their voting is a whole other question.
Much of what we are seeing and hearing now is from the activists and not particularly representative of the average voter.
It is not enough that most people oppose the overturning of Roe.The question is does that opposition become a defining issue in affecting their vote for Congressional candidates or does that become secondary to economic issues like inflation .
In other words do voters care more about punishing Republicans for a Supreme Court decision or Democrats because a Democratic President is presiding over an economy being lashed by high inflation eating into their income?
EXCELLENT view Jack….
The November elections COULD be the culimantion of a wave against the Court and Republican efforts to slow the changes effecting America…
Or?
Just a blip in the down fall for Democrats under the Biden days….
So far?
Biden has been terrible in selling much of anything…
And?
Democrats are still trying to make progressives happy which is digging them in a hole….