https://apnews.com/article/abortion-arizona-biden-trump-presidential-election-11fe3cecb65d2365192273ebac2e9ed1PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total abortion ban supercharged the state’s role, transforming it into perhaps the nation’s most critical battleground.This Sunbelt state with a fierce independent streak has long been at the forefront of the nation’s immigration debate due to its 378-mile border with Mexico and its large Hispanic and immigrant populations. It now moves to the center of the national debate over reproductive rights after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a federally guaranteed right to abortion.Abortion and immigration have been two of this year’s biggest political issues. No battleground state has been affected more directly by both than Arizona.“Do not underestimate this,” Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who polls for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, said of the Arizona abortion ruling. “It’s dynamic-changing.”Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump are expected to fight hard to win Arizona after Biden carried the state four years ago by less than 11,000 votes.In addition to the presidency, the U.S. Senate majority may be decided by the state’s high-profile contest between Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in the race to replace retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent who caucuses with Democrats.The state Supreme Court’s ruling reviving an abortion ban passed in 1864 also added rocket fuel to Democrats’ push to add a question to the November ballot asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion until viability, when a fetus could survive outside the womb. Later abortions would be allowed to save the woman’s life or protect her physical or mental health.
Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita, who also serves as chief of staff to the Republican National Committee, described Arizona as “a key part of the strategy.”He declined to discuss any specifics on strategy but disagreed that the abortion ruling fundamentally changed Arizona’s dynamics.“Is abortion an issue that the campaign has to deal with in the battleground states — and more specifically in Arizona? Absolutely. We feel that we are doing that and we are exceeding what we need to do,” LaCivita said, even as he suggested other issues would be more salient for most Arizona voters this fall.“The election is going to be determined really in large part based on the key issues that the vast majority of Arizonans have to deal with every single day, and that’s, ‘Can I afford to put food on the table and feed my family and get in the car to go to work?’” he said.Democrats are quick to note that they have won virtually every major election in which abortion was on the ballot since the June 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade.The Biden campaign on Thursday launched a statewide abortion-related advertising campaign that it said would reach seven figures, although ad tracking firms had yet to confirm the new investment. The new ads come in addition to a $30 million nationwide advertising blitz that was already underway, according to Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz.In the new ad, Biden links Arizona’s abortion restrictions directly to Trump.“Your body and your decisions belong to you, not the government, not Donald Trump,” Biden says. “I will fight like hell to get your freedom back.”Beyond the ad campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in Arizona on Friday, where she highlighted the Democrats’ dedication to preserving abortion rights, blamed Trump for eroding them and warned that “a second Trump term would be even worse.”
She pledged that Biden would sign legislation creating a nationwide right to abortion if Congress passes it, though it would have to survive a Republican filibuster in the Senate.Even without this week’s abortion ruling, Democrats were already betting big on Arizona this fall.Biden’s team is on track to spend more than $22 million on Arizona advertising between April 1 and Election Day, according to data collected by the ad tracking firm AdImpact. That’s millions more than other swing states like Wisconsin, Georgia and Nevada. Only Pennsylvania and Michigan are seeing more Democratic advertising dollars.Trump’s team, meanwhile, isn’t spending anything on Arizona advertising this month and hasn’t yet reserved any general election advertising in the state, according to AdImpact.Yet Trump remains bullish on the state, which had backed a Republican presidential candidate in every election since 1996 before it narrowly supported Biden in 2020. They point to a modest shift among Hispanic voters, a core group in the Democratic coalition, which may be more open to Trump.Meanwhile, Arizona Republicans are still bogged down by GOP infighting in a state where the party apparatus built and nurtured by the late Sen. John McCain has been usurped by Trump’s “Make America Great Again” loyalists.The division came to a head in the 2022 primary for governor, when Trump and his allies lined up enthusiastically behind Kari Lake, while traditional conservatives and the business establishment backed her rival.Lake won the primary. Rather than mend fences with the vanquished establishment, she gloated that she “drove a stake through the heart of the McCain machine.” She’s since made a more concerted effort behind the scenes to win over her GOP critics, with mixed results.Lake, a major MAGA figure sometimes discussed as a potential Trump running mate, is now running in the state’s high-profile Senate race.
No one believes Trump and the Republicans won't force a national ban with zero exceptions when they have the chance
>>1286884Rethuglicans wouldn't stand a chance of re-election if they did this.but that's the point, if elected there wont be any further elections
>>1286884source?>your assA quote?A snippet??Anything??Nope. Lie moar cry moar.
>>1286904He's right you know. Go outside.
>>1286884>whores mad they wont be able to kill kidsWomp womp
>>1286845I fucking hate abortion, I hate that it's something that happens and I absolutely despise the promiscuous culture that's created a market for it, but holy shit how does anyone think bans would go well at allAbortion is so fucking retarded I hate that this is such a hot button issue when something like 80% of abortion cases would be completely unnecessary if people just stopped being whores
>>1286938>80% of abortion cases would be completely unnecessary if people just stopped being whoresCloser to 95% actually, if not higher. According to PP's own statistical reporting, 95%+ of all abortions ever carried out have been elective.
Abortions don’t save lives, they save lifestyles.
>>1286941Have sex, incel.
>>1286972Have an abortion, murderer.
>>1286974Your tears are delicious
>>1286904There's no talk of repealing the the Comstock Act, which the Republicans supreme court has citing for implementing a national ban
>>1286983Your HIV is killing you.
>>1286993I don't have HIV. Also I'm not trans and I don't live in a tent behind a starbucks. What now?
>>1286993>if you feel the loving touch of a woman you will get cootiesYou need to be old enough to consent to use this website.
>>1287000It's obvious at this point.You're an incel who ironically shouts "have sex incel!"Looking back, there's decent odds you're dyke femcel.
>>1287005Your best respone is 'no u'?
>>1286940>>1286938Ironically, so many abortions could be completely prevented if conservatives didn't try to defund and eliminate any program that helps prevent pregnancy. Free condoms, birth control, planned parenthood, family planning services etc., All things that conservatives vote against. That's why your states have the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country. It seems like you people don't really give a fuck about stopping abortions and punishing people for having sex is your only goal.
>>1287074That's because this isn't about saving fetuses, it's about controlling women and sex.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-brags-eliminating-abortion-rights_n_6619acf0e4b0f88c6ceda141Nothing says 'I'm going to ban all abortion' like bragging you ended the constitutional protection to one with your packed supreme court.
>>1287088No it's not retard.Abortion is about giving the jews fresh goyim fetuses.There are many way to avoid and terminate a pregnancy that don't involve a jewish abortion doctor grinding up a baby inside of a woman.>It's not the jewsFind a non-jewish doctor that performs abortions.
>>1287088Why are racist demoKKKrats so hell bent on murder?
>>1287162>>1287167Interesting samefag
>>1287162>There are many way to avoid and terminate a pregnancy that don't involve a jewish abortion doctor grinding up a baby inside of a woman.For example plan C? A thing Republicans want banned?Fuck, Republicans want plan B banned. A few nutters even want basic fucking birth control banned. You want accuse someone of harvesting babies, maybe focus on the party that wants as many unplanned pregnancies as possible.>But they teach abstinenceAh yes, teaching abstinence, famously the only thing less effective than no sex ed (a thing they also call for).
>>1287162Proof that jews are using our white American aborted fetuses for their rituals?
>>1287180It's on the Talmud somewhere, since they've claimed it's part of their religion.https://www.vox.com/2022/7/3/23190408/judaism-rabbi-abortion-religion-reproductive-rights>There are two statements in the Talmud, codified in roughly 500 CE, that say for the first 40 days of pregnancy the fetus is “mere water” and doesn’t have any legal status at all, which incidentally is the same in Islam. For the first 40 days, the fetus has zero status, and from then on the fetus is considered a part of the pregnant person’s body — it is “as its mother’s thigh.”But this doesn't fully explain their demand for abortion up to the moment of birth or even partial birth abortion.And al your lines come from jewish abortion activists. There's more evidence to support my claim than there is evidence that it's a false claim.>ProofShut the fuck up, Chaim. Go back to the tunnel.
>>1287170>A few nuttersWhy are Europeans offering their opinions on American politics? Your opinions are worthless, everything you understand about America you get from literal TV propaganda and is completely baseless>You want accuse someone of harvesting babies, maybe focus on the party that wants more abortions so they can harvest the remains of babiesFTFYAlso, do you have yer loicense to be postin on 4chan, innit?
>>1287190>it's in the Talmud I swear>here's some quotes from the Talmud that have nothing to do with what I said>I can reference the Talmud but just not the part of the Talmud that actually proves my argument>muh tunnelsBuddy I'm pro-life and even I think you're a retarded faggot
>>1287202>Buddy I'm pro-lifeSure sure.
>>1287203>mad cause a Jew took his girl so he blames the Talmud for everythingThe other pro-life folks all laugh at my jokes about you, faggot
>>1287205>Jew took his girl That only happens in movies written by jews.
>>1287206Your life is a movie written by jews?
>>1287207You're right. A long nose, thin lipped jew with a huge bald spot, bad posture, and a jerry curl or perm or something stole my woman.I am angery enough to kill babies for Moloch.
>>1287209You're angry enough to bitch about jews online instead of living your life outside, so there's that. But you won't ever have to worry about killing babies, don't worry. No woman would ever willingly sleep with you. Even pro-choice women spit on you and call you a faggot, pro-life women would kill you on the spot if you ever met one.
>>1286925Fetuses aren't kids I'm afraid.
>>1286845MAGA ditches pro-life causehttps://www.semafor.com/article/04/15/2024/trump-gave-maga-politicians-permission-to-move-left-on-abortion-some-are-taking-it
