President Joe Biden delivered a speech Tuesday that promised to make abortion rights a key priority if Congress expands its majority, an effort to get voters' attention back on the issue in light of recent polling showing Americans are increasingly losing interest in abortion rights
President Joe Biden spoke about abortion access at a DNC event.
If Democrats keep control of the House and get a majority in the Senate, the first bill Biden will send to Congress will be legislation that protects abortion rights, the president said Tuesday.
Biden stressed the need for Americans who support abortion rights to vote in the upcoming elections.
According to recent polls, the Republicans have a slight lead over the Democrats in the November elections.
The Times poll found that only 5% of people think abortion is the most important problem facing the country today, the same as in September, but the share of people who think it's very important has gone down.
The percentage of Harvard/Harris respondents who said the Supreme Court's decision made them more likely to vote Republican went from 32% in September to 37% in October.
Independent women went from favoring Democrats by a 14-point margin in September to favoring Republicans in October, according to a Times poll.
A Morning Consult poll released Tuesday found voters prefer Democrats to Republicans by the same percentage as last week, but it was slightly down from earlier in the month. Morning Consult notes that the highest enthusiasm advantage Democrats have had over Republicans has been found in the poll. According to an analysis of all generic congressional polls done by FiveThirtyEight, Democrats have a narrow lead with 45.4% of respondents saying they will vote for Democratic candidates as of Tuesday and 44.9% saying they will vote Republican.
In the upcoming elections, what will happen? The political situation could change before Election Day, and the results will likely be dependent on which voters turn out. The current polls show that the GOP will have more seats in the House than the Democrats. If more young voters turn out, the Democrats will have a narrow majority of 219 seats, while the Republicans will have a 233 seat majority. Biden told young voters to vote because the decisions they make now are going to determine the future of the nation.
A wave of state-level abortion bans has been created by the Supreme Court's June 24 decision, sparking fears among abortion rights advocates that GOP legislators will target other issues like contraceptives and same-sex marriage. The outrage over the court's decision has made Democratic strategists hopeful that the anger will translate into electoral gains and make their base turn out to vote. In the summer elections, a Kansas ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to restrict abortion rights was soundly defeated, and a Democrat won a special House election in New York that was seen as a bellwether on abortion rights. This month's polling has made Democratic strategists more concerned that the elections in November may not reflect the same enthusiasm. Mark Longabaugh, a progressive ad maker, told the outlet that the polling shows that it is moving in the Republicans' direction.
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