Democrats may embrace abortion rights even more tightly after Ohio win

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After Ohio voters turned out in unexpectedly high numbers to reject a Republican-backed referendum that would have made it harder to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution, Democrats are eyeing new opportunities in the 2024 election.

, the states’ Democratic-controlled legislatures have referred abortion rights amendments to state voters, a move that could help Democratic House candidates in those states, especially New York.

“I happen to be a practicing Catholic. I’m not big on abortion,” Biden said at a fundraiser in June. “But guess what?Biden advisers say the president can balance his economic pitch and a broader defense of “freedom” that includes women’s reproductive rights. They point to Biden’s messaging in the lead-up to the 2022 midterms as well as a campaign launch video that included a reference to “the freedom for women to make their own health-care decisions.

Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life Action, sent supporters an email Wednesday contending Republicans were losing abortion fights by engaging in “cut and run politics.” Two others are also running for the GOP Senate nomination in Ohio. The winner will face Brown, an opponent of Issue 1 who on MSNBC called Tuesday’s results “a rejection of the power grab that the politicians in Columbus were making.”The issue has prompted other Republicans to change or obscure their positions on abortion, a phenomenon that has affected races up and down the ballot.

Some political analysts see 2024 as potentially a mirror image of the 2004 election, when President George W. Bush and his top strategist, Karl Rove, focused on issues such as opposition to gay rights. They sought to turn out the votes of evangelicals, and the strategy may have put Bush over the top in key states including in Ohio.

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