ICYMI: Senate Democrats launch website targeting GOP on abortion ahead of Roe v Wade anniversary [The Hill]

The Hill: Senate Democrats launch website targeting GOP on abortion ahead of Roe v Wade anniversary
By Caroline Vakil 
January 19, 2024

• The Senate Democrats’ campaign arm launched a website Friday targeting Republicans in battleground states on their past comments on abortion ahead of the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.

• The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s (DSCC) website, called goponabortion.com and first shared with The Hill, highlights past comments made by Senate candidates in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

• The DSCC website features excerpts of remarks from Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who both face reelection next year, in addition to a number of Republicans who have declared their candidacies for the Senate or are expected to run.

• This group includes Kari Lake in Arizona; former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) and James Craig in Michigan; Tim Sheehy and Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) in Montana; Sam Brown in Nevada; Bernie Moreno, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) and state Sen. Matt Dolan (R) in Ohio; Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania; and Eric Hovde in Wisconsin. 

• The DSCC website also includes some of their remarks in a video compilation.

• The DSCC website, for example, notes Lake’s past comments calling abortion “murder” during a 2021 conversation. The website noted that the former local news anchor said in 2022 that abortion “is not health care. It is the killing, it is the sacrifice, it is the execution of a baby.”  

• Abortion has proved to be a motivating issue with Democratic votes, repeatedly driving their base to the polls. With President Biden’s approval numbers under water and the difficult Senate map, it’s a crucial issue for the party to keep hold of the Senate majority.

• “On record and on video, Republican Senate candidates have made it clear they stand in lockstep with their party’s agenda to ban abortion nationwide and without exceptions,” DSCC spokesperson Katarina Flicker said in a statement. 

• “This website will help voters learn how Republican Senate candidates oppose women’s right to make our own health care decisions – and why their agenda opposing women’s freedom to make these deeply personal choices for themselves will lead their campaigns to defeat in 2024,” Flicker added. 

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