I guess it’s icky again?
Texas Republicans are cheerfully debating the idea of executing teenagers for exercising their right to have an abortion, and maybe I’m out of sync with the Democratic Party but I feel like Joe Biden and party leaders should be putting this front and center?
A third of self-identified Republicans say that abortion should be legal in at least *some* circumstances. Almost 70 percent of voters overall support legal abortion. In Texas, Missouri and beyond, the @GOP is going far past what even its own voters want.
Imagine being able to build a coalition of the many Republican voters who are increasingly turned off by how far the GOP is going – from bounty-hunting laws to Missouri’s bill criminalizing travel out of state to get an abortion.
Yet you don’t hear Biden talking about this. You didn’t hear the word “abortion” once in the State of the Union. To listen to the staggering silence from the Democratic Party, you’d think abortion rights were safe and secure. They are profoundly not.
I’ve asked Democratic leaders from the White House on down for comment on what’s happening in this nationwide Republican war on abortion rights. Practically no one is willing to put their name in print — at a time when Democrats should be mobilizing voters EVERYWHERE.
As I point out in my @Newsweek column, the suburbs are ripe for Democratic scoops thanks to @GOP overreach on abortion. But we can only pick those areas up if Dems actually get out there and make abortion a leading 2022 election issue.
https://www.newsweek.com/gops-war-abortion-now-war-privacy-rights-opinion-1690230
The GOP has convinced Democrats that talking about abortion is political suicide.
Of course they did! A recent Hart Research survey found that when elections focus on abortion as a top issue, voters choose Democrats over Republicans by a staggering 71-point margin.
The @GOP wants Democrats to be afraid — when Democrats talk about abortion, we win elections. The worst thing we can do is be silent in the face of this nationwide Republican war on women. Our leadership needs to be shouting.
This is more than a political fight. Protecting abortion rights is a core value of the Democratic Party, and we have an ethical obligation to fight for those whose rights are under attack. And we must fight at every level, with every voice, from the White House on down.
Thanks for reading, folks. Use your voice or they’ll take that, too.
Originally tweeted by Max Burns (@themaxburns) on March 26, 2022.
I guess they don’t want those suburban voters to come out and vote this time. Good to know.