President Joe Biden on Tuesday burned Florida imminent ban on abortion for six weeks and said donald trump was responsible, classifying the former president as a danger to women’s freedoms.
“This extreme Florida law will affect 4 million women in the state,” Biden said during a speech in Tampa. “Let’s be very clear. There is one person responsible for this nightmare. And he is recognized and brags about it – Donald Trump.”
In territory that has been increasingly out of reach for Democrats, Biden rattled off a list of states, from Ohio to Kentucky, where large numbers of voters have supported abortion rights measures at the ballot box since the 2022 fall of Roe v. .
“In November,” the president said, “you can add Florida to that list.”
Biden visited Trump’s home state as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee spent much of the day in a Manhattan courtroom for his secret trial. The Biden campaign has tried to build a narrative that it has a potential path to victory in Florida, despite Trump’s decisive victories in 2016 and 2020.
“The idea that Donald Trump has the state under control could not be further from the truth,” Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler told reporters in a call ahead of the Florida trip. “He owns not only the state of abortion rights across the country, but also the restriction we are seeing happening in Florida.”
In his comments, Biden referenced the Arizona Supreme Court ruling this month that concluded almost total ban on abortion which dates back to 1864 is enforceable and painted Trump as responsible for that decision.
“Trump was literally taking us back 160 years. He says it’s up to the states – this is all a states’ rights issue. But he is wrong,” Biden said. “O [U.S.] The Supreme Court was wrong. There should be a constitutional right in the federal Constitution, a federal right, and it shouldn’t matter where you live in America. This isn’t about states’ rights, it’s about women’s rights.”
Biden is visiting Florida days before the six-week abortion ban that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last year goes into effect After an April 1 state Supreme Court ruling.
The Biden campaign sought to link Trump to post-Roe state law and indicated that a proposed change on the November ballot that would enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution could increase its chances of flipping the state.
On a NBC News 2022 Midterm Exit Poll, 56% of Florida voters said abortion should be legal. Among voters surveyed, 24% said abortion was the most important factor in deciding how they would vote.
Trump won Florida in 2020, with 51.2% of the votes against 47.9% for Biden.
The former president expressed support for various positions on abortion over the years, although he speaks regularly on the campaign trail about how he nominated conservative judges who helped overturn Roe v. Wade. After having suggested the possibility of a federal abortion ban, he recently said that Abortion laws should be decided by the states but also that the Arizona Supreme Court went too far in your decision.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022, abortion has appeared on the ballot in several states and consistently provided victories for abortion rights groups. It is expected to remain a key issue in Novemberbut it is not yet clear whether it will galvanize voters with the same force as it did in the midterm elections.
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