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The Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election

The Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election

Update: 2023-11-111
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The Washington Roundtable: In this past week’s off-cycle elections, Ohioans voted to enshrine the right to abortion access in their state constitution; Virginia Democrats took full control of their General Assembly blue; and deep-red Kentucky reëlected Democratic Governor Andy Beshear. Abortion is “an incredibly powerful issue that has the possibility to realign the parties,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says, and could make a big difference in 2024. Democrats who have made reproductive rights a part of their platform have secured victories in local and statewide elections since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. Yet a new poll, out this week, shows President Biden trailing Donald Trump in five of six key battleground states—all of which Biden won in 2020. The New Yorker staff writers Evan Osnos and Susan B. Glasser join Mayer to weigh in on the role that abortion might play in the politics of 2024 as well as the current disconnect between the facts and public mood on the economy, Trump’s civil trial, and the presumed Biden-Trump rematch in 2024.

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Darcie Harris

Perhaps voters would respond differently in polls if the media would cover more substantive issues, like the impact of the infrastructure bill, the chips act & lower prescription drug costs instead of obsessively talking about Biden’s age.

Nov 11th
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The Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election

The Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election

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