“Kansas is the earthquake that is going to rattle every assumption about what is going to happen this fall.”Īs Warren pointed out, Republicans can only run so far away from the issue, given extremist candidates like Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Tudor Dixon in Michigan, both of whom have said they oppose exceptions for rape and incest in abortion bans. Happily, some key Democratic leaders are getting the point, too. “It’s a game changer,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney told The Washington Post. “It’s critical that Democrats make equally clear that this is a key difference, and Democrats will stand up for letting the pregnant person make the decision, not the government.” “The Republicans who are running for office are quite open about their support for banning abortion,” according to Sen. “For decades, that hasn’t been true, so it’s difficult for some people who have been through lots of tough battles and lots of tough states to recognize that the ground has shifted under them.
“The energy is on the side of abortion rights,” Sen. Some Democrats are urging their party to seize on the issue. It will be easier to change the subject as voters consider the totality of a candidate rather than a single issue, but predictions that abortion would not drive turnout are clearly wrong. The problem for them on that front is that gas prices are dropping-and Kansas showed that people really do care about abortion rights. “ My advice would be for Republicans to stick with their winning messages about the runaway costs of inflation and energy costs and continue to largely avoid discussing the abortion debate,” one Republican communications strategist told Insider, in a view echoed by another Republican strategist. A New York Times analysis extends the Kansas vote across the country in an estimate using state demographics, suggesting that voters in around 40 states would vote to protect abortion rights. “That’s the main lesson of Kansas.” No kidding. ” The base of the GOP is definitely ahead of where the voters are in wanting to restrict abortion,” an Iowa Republican operative told The New York Times. Privately, some Republicans admit that they may have a problem, with one telling The Washington Post that Kansas should “ send a cold chill up the spines” of many Republicans. Except that high turnout in Kansas for a normally low-turnout primary election shows that voters are concerned about abortion. Publicly, most prominent Republicans say it’s not that they’re avoiding abortion it’s that they’re sticking with the real issues of concern to voters.
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