While the Florida Supreme Court has just called into question the right to abortion, Joe Biden is putting the subject at the heart of his campaign to win voters in this historically Republican state.
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What if Florida became Democratic again? The hypothesis is making its way to the White House. Joe Biden believes that the Republicans could lose this state in the southeast of the United States because of a court decision on abortion rendered earlier this week. The Florida Supreme Court has given the green light to the ban on abortion beyond six weeks of pregnancy.
The Democratic camp imagines the state returning to blue on the map in the presidential election in November. Because since the Supreme Court in Washington banned abortion at the federal level, this right to abortion has won in all elections, including in conservative states like Kansas. Trump won Florida in 2016 and 2020, by 370,000 votes four years ago. But Biden’s campaign team says in a statement that it is now winnable.
Hence clips where Democrats replay Trump’s pride in having canceled the right to abortion in June 2022 thanks to the judges he appointed to the Supreme Court. Biden presents himself as the one who wants to restore this right at the federal level, while Trump would not trust women.
The leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, was in Florida on Tuesday. He presented the state as the main front in the fight for abortion rights. The goal was to raise money and serve as a reminder that with tighter restrictions in Florida, women in much of the South would be forced to travel long distances to have an abortion. Residents of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina may have to travel as far as Virginia.
