{"id":1562657,"date":"2022-07-20T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562657"},"modified":"2022-07-20T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:34:25","slug":"dems-tone-down-pro-abortion-rhetoric-to-win-over-black-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-tone-down-pro-abortion-rhetoric-to-win-over-black-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Tone Down Pro-Abortion Rhetoric To Win Over Black Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-tone-down-pro-abortion-rhetoric-to-win-over-black-voters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562657&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/17.03-e1658265153453.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democrats are toning down their abortion rhetoric to appeal to black voters who they view as being more socially conservative, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Black Democrats are significantly less likely to find abortion morally acceptable or to support unlimited legal abortion compared to non-black Democrats, a Gallup poll <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/polling-matters\/318932\/black-americans-abortion.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found<\/a>. Strategists are advising Democratic politicians to frame the abortion issue as a broader attack on civil rights and to avoid actually discussing abortion to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/18\/kamala-harris-compares-abortion-to-slavery-naacp-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeal<\/a> to this demographic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/18\/us\/politics\/abortion-black-voters-democrats-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am participating in a fireside conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KekePalmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KekePalmer<\/a> at ESSENCE Festival of Culture on the most critical issues facing Black women, including the fight for reproductive rights. Tune in. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Gr6T5ocPx\">https:\/\/t.co\/3Gr6T5ocPx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP\/status\/1543345811718918146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf the Democratic Party really wanted to appeal to Black Christians about reproductive rights, they would have to package it in a very specific way,\u201d Eric McDaniel, co-director of the Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, told the NYT. \u201cIf they\u2019re going to talk about it, they have to frame this as, \u2018This is just part of a larger assault on your rights.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Najuma Smith-Pollard, a pastor at a Black church in Los Angeles, had a similar message for Vice President Kamala Harris at a June roundtable of faith leaders.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/25\/secret-racist-history-pro-abortion-choice-movement-margaret-sanger-planned-parenthood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: The Secret Racist History Of The Pro-Abortion Movement)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best way to message to Smith-Pollard\u2019s community \u201cwould be like having to have the conversation without the word abortion,\u201d she said in a later interview, according to the NYT. \u201cWe were all clear that this is about abortion, but this is not just about abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/06\/analysis-biden-approval-hispanics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">losing<\/a> non-white <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/06\/democrats-losing-black-voters-rnc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voters<\/a>, particularly black and Hispanic people, to the Republican Party, in part because of social issues like <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/16\/pro-life-democrat-hispanic-voters-abortion-arizona-nevada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 abortion agenda is deeply unpopular among voters; 48 out of 50 Senate Democrats were sponsors or cosponsors of a bill that would <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/05\/democrats-legalize-third-trimester-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legalize<\/a> elective abortions nationwide throughout the entire duration of pregnancy, a measure that 80% of voters <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/only-on-ap-us-supreme-court-abortion-religion-health-2c569aa7934233af8e00bef4520a8fa8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposed<\/a> in a June Associated Press poll. Another 65% of voters believe abortion should be illegal or mostly illegal in the second trimester, the poll found, but such restrictions were considered unconstitutional under the Roe precedent.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/the-politics-of-overturning-roe-are-bad-for-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected<\/a> the overturning of Roe v. Wade to inspire voters to help Democrats recover some support ahead of 2022 midterm elections, but Republicans were ahead of Democrats in polls by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/25\/politics\/republicans-congress-polling-roe-v-wade\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar<\/a> margins before and after the court\u2019s draft opinion was leaked.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;They would have to package it in a very specific way&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}