Biden heads to Florida to hit Trump on abortion rights
Source: NBC News
April 23, 2024, 5:00 AM EDT
President Joe Biden is traveling to Florida on Tuesday to deliver remarks highlighting efforts by Democrats to safeguard abortion access and casting former President Donald Trump as a threat to reproductive rights.
The trip to Tampa is intended to "forcefully advocate for reproductive freedom and call out Donald Trump’s abortion bans, as he’s been doing since Roe was overturned,” Biden campaign spokesperson Michael Tyler told reporters in a call previewing the president's travel plans.
The Biden campaign has been emphasizing what it sees as a potential path to victory in a red state it considers "winnable," despite Trump's victories there in 2016 and 2020. “The idea that Donald Trump has the state in the bag could not be further from the truth,” Tyler said. “He owns not only the state of abortion rights across the country, but he owns the restriction that we’re seeing play out in Florida.”
NBC News has reported that Biden’s remarks in Florida also will touch on the Arizona Supreme Court ruling this month that a near-total ban on abortion that dates to 1864 is enforceable.
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