President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will rally voters in Virginia on Tuesday, seeking to emphasize the stakes for reproductive rights in 2024 – the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned the federal constitutional right to an abortion.
It’s the first time the president and vice president will have hit the trail together during 2024.
At the rally, which comes one day after what would have been the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the president, vice president and their spouses will “underscore what is at stake for reproductive freedom in 2024 — including the threat of a MAGA Republican-led national abortion ban — and President Biden’s commitment to codifying the protections of Roe into law,” according to a campaign announcement.
The president, according to a campaign official, will be introduced by Amanda Zurawski, a Texas woman who said she nearly died after being denied an abortion in her state.
The Biden campaign is banking on abortion rights being one of the pivotal issues driving voters out against the GOP nominee in November. Nearly two-thirds of Americans polled after the 2022 decision that overturned Roe said they disagreed with the decision, according to a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS in the decision’s aftermath.
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