President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will share the stage on Tuesday in Virginia as they campaign for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in an election expected to feature a rematch with Donald Trump, the former Republican president.
Biden and Harris will be joined by their spouses, first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. It’s the first time the four of them have appeared together since the campaign began, a reflection of the importance that Democrats are putting on abortion this year.
Harris was in Wisconsin in Monday to mark the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. The decision was overturned two years ago, and Trump helped pave the way by nominating three conservative justices to the court during his term. He recently said he was “proud” of his role.
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You can tell election season has finally kicked off when they dust off womens rights and start campaigning on protecting them again. Until election day when they nearly fold them back up and place them back into the bag of empty promises.
Holding someone’s rights hostage until election season means they never had any interest in protecting rights, but in protecting their jobs.
Just like 2008, even if we elect them into a supermajority with a sweeping mandate, suddenly there will be other priorities. In that case, it was shoveling some 30mil Americans into the pockets of insurance companies. This time? Who knows, perhaps more genocide?
Don’t forget record oil production and promises of cannabis legalization seemingly out of left field.
Oh I ‘memba. This type of stuff where the president doesn’t even need Congress and can deliver for the people single-handedly, but won’t, is especially infuriating.
Exactly the same way he can cut off money and weapons to Israel without Congress
The public option was killed by one Senator after another died unexpectedly.
Definitely more genocide
Kamala Harris
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.
Call it what it is, health care
It’s not just to focus on abortion, I think the campaign needs to be pushing Harris out there and making her visible. It looks likely that this election will be between two men on the thin side of the life expectancy curve. We should all be evaluating both candidates based on what will happen in the likely event that whoever wins is forced to leave their term early for medical reasons.
Trump is unlikely to name anyone as his VP who will not be 100% loyal to him. Which, let’s face it, leaves out thr most experienced candidates. He will end up picking a toady like Stefanik (or perhaps even Tucker Carlson if those rumors are true). Harris has a chance to start differentiating herself right now, and proving to people that she’s the insurance policy that can allow people to vote for someone who may not serve out his full term.
The problem is that Harris is kind of an awkward public speaker. It’s kind of a shame that this is a critical aspect of politics because it excludes a huge number of otherwise great leaders.
Sure you want her visible? She makes Sarah Palin’s word salads seem intelligent.
I don’t think Harris and Palin are at all similar. I would describe Harris as uninspiring, perhaps, but not unintelligent.
Have you listened to her talk?
Yeah. And she’s more intelligent than you seem to be.
Take your pick Liberals lost their fucking mind at covefe, but mindless word salads from a cop and incoherent ramblings from a senile old man is perfectly ok
Sorry, but I don’t consider Megyn Kelly’s Facebook page a reliable source.
Pick one of the hundreds of other examples in the link, unless you prefer ignorance
Oh look another right winger pretending to be a leftist on Lemmy.
Oh look another Democrat that thinks They are on the left, they’re to the right of Reagan
I hate that this is a reality, but I’ve got to agree with you. Against all odds Joe Biden has proven to be a remarkably effective president under extremely challenging circumstances, and I love the idea of getting four more years of him. Especially with a real majority in Congress, we could at least see the lowest hanging fruit of mainstream Democratic priorities in the next four years. [And progressives who don’t think that’s good enough may well lose the Republic for their impatience.]
But the truth is Trump and Biden are both more likely than not to die within the next four years. Biden is only three years older than Trump, but Trump is easily three years or more less healthy than Biden. That said, the actuarial tables paint grim pictures for both of them, and that means that voters need to be paying especially close attention to their VP nominees. To the extent Biden-Harris can make Kamala an extension of Joe Biden’s campaign priorities, it’s a necessity.
To be frank, I can’t help but think it’s a little unfortunate that Harris is so essential to the ticket, because she has always had a likability problem, and she has some undiscountable baggage. On the other side, conventional wisdom says Haley is the VP pick, but notwithstanding the general oh-for-fuck-sake unpredictability of Trump, a Haley-Harris matchup is moderately scary, but not nearly as threatening as alternatives. If I were advising Trump’s campaign, I can’t say I’d be a fan of either Stefanik or Carlson, the former because she adds nothing to the campaign and the latter because Trump doesn’t want to be upstaged. When I’ve asked local Republicans who are well-informed, Kristi Noem continues to be mentioned, and I have to admit that as a Democrat, the Noem-Harris matchup is scary. Biden-Harris absolutely needs the VP to be out front, and frankly, if they could manufacture a tie vote in the Senate somehow to get some new footage of her doing the one thing the Constitution actually requires of her (other than outliving the president), they should.
conventional wisdom says Haley is the VP pick
Trump is neither conventional, nor wise. Trump is looking for someone who, when his followers chant “Hang $NAME”, that person will build their own gallows and get the rope ready. Haley is too smart for that, but Stefanik is the right kind of dumb to be Trump’s VP.
The first thing I’ll do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdrOrwmk78Y
Im pro choice https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzdkAbu8dY
Not my highest priority https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxiDZejZFjg
parody… No https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4uhxpOnN0
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Wisconsin was Harris’ first stop on what’s expected to be a nationwide tour focused on abortion, which she described as an integral part of the country’s tradition of personal liberty.
Harris shared stories of women who have miscarried in toilets or developed sepsis because they were denied help by doctors concerned about violating abortion restrictions.
Although Democrats want to restore the rights that were established in Roe v. Wade, there’s no chance of that with the current makeup of the Supreme Court and Republican control of the House.
Last week, The Associated Press reported that federal officials did not find any violation of the law when an Oklahoma hospital instructed a 26-year-old woman to wait in a parking lot until her condition worsened to qualify for an abortion of her nonviable pregnancy.
While Harris and Democrats have embraced abortion as a campaign issue, Republicans are shying away or calling for a truce, fearful of sparking more backlash from voters.
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, recently made a plea to “find consensus” on the divisive issue.
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