Will Abortion Help or Hurt Biden’s 2024 Campaign?

As the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision approached, Politico reported that Joe Biden “is poised to run the most overtly abortion rights platform of any general election candidate in political history as he and his team navigate the first presidential cycle in the post-Roe era.” Biden’s campaign manager told the publication that the Biden campaign intends to put the issue of abortion “front and center” in 2024.

On Friday evening, Biden offered a glimpse of what it might look like for the campaign to put abortion “front and center.” At a rally with Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and Emily’s List in Washington, D.C., Biden was introduced by a Planned Parenthood abortion doctor. In his remarks, he hammered South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham for trying to ban abortions (later than 15 weeks of pregnancy) nationwide, and he emphasized the need to enact the Democrats’ sweeping federal abortion bill. Before Biden spoke, Nancy Pelosi told the crowd that Senate Democrats would scrap the filibuster to do just that.

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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As the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision approached, Politico reported that Joe Biden “is poised to run the most overtly abortion rights platform of any general election candidate in political history as he and his team navigate the first presidential cycle in the post-Roe era.” Biden’s campaign manager told the publication that the Biden campaign intends to put the issue of abortion “front and center” in 2024.

On Friday evening, Biden offered a glimpse of what it might look like for the campaign to put abortion “front and center.” At a rally with Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and Emily’s List in Washington, D.C., Biden was introduced by a Planned Parenthood abortion doctor. In his remarks, he hammered South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham for trying to ban abortions (later than 15 weeks of pregnancy) nationwide, and he emphasized the need to enact the Democrats’ sweeping federal abortion bill. Before Biden spoke, Nancy Pelosi told the crowd that Senate Democrats would scrap the filibuster to do just that.