{"id":2212091,"date":"2024-04-03T09:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T13:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-democrats-want-biden-to-stay-away-from-abortion-ballot-measure\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T13:58:25","slug":"florida-democrats-want-biden-to-stay-away-from-abortion-ballot-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-democrats-want-biden-to-stay-away-from-abortion-ballot-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Democrats are urging President Biden to avoid involvement in the abortion ballot measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fflorida-democrats-want-biden-to-stay-away-from-abortion-ballot-measure%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=2212091&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--><p>National Democrats are leveraging a Florida Supreme Court decision to place abortion on the ballot, with the Biden campaign targeting Florida as a potential win. However, Florida Democrats \u2064aim to avoid politicizing \u200dthe issue to prevent alienating state Republicans. The campaign launched digital ads in Florida highlighting \u200dTrump\u2019s views on Roe v. Wade.\u2063 Local leaders are taking \u200bthe helm on this key issue.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>National Democrats are capitalizing on a Florida Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/2947258\/florida-supreme-court-allows-abortion-rights-amendment-to-appear-on-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>decision<\/a> that puts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>abortion<\/a> on the ballot, and the Biden campaign has recently declared Florida \u201cwinnable.\u201d Florida Democrats, however, aren\u2019t looking to politicize the measure. <\/p>\n<p>Florida Democrats worry that politicizing abortion will alienate state Republicans who may be in favor of more lenient abortion legislation. Meanwhile, following the court\u2019s decision, the Biden campaign launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GgtPkQtEb_k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>digital ads<\/a> in the Sunshine State highlighting former President Donald Trump\u2019s comments on overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would expect them to support the initiative, but letting locals lead on this is smart,\u201d Florida Democratic state Rep. Anna Eskamani told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/04\/03\/florida-democrats-biden-abortion-00150257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Politico<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are clear-eyed about how hard it will be to win Florida,\u201d Biden\u2019s campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said. \u201cBut we also know Trump does not have it in the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2020-election\/results\/florida\/\">state<\/a> that Trump won by about 370,000 votes in 2020. Democrats, who have successfully campaigned on abortion issues in other states, are looking to bring voters to the Democratic Party who are passionate about abortion rights. <\/p>\n<p>Democratic state Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book, who was involved with organizing signatures for the abortion ballot campaign, said nearly one million registered voters who signed were Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis language was supported by Republicans and independents,\u201d Book said. \u201cWhile it\u2019s deeply political, I had Republican women alongside me collecting petitions because they believe the legislature went too far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbortion is to Republicans what immigration is to Democrats: If you\u2019re talking about it, it\u2019s a complication, it\u2019s a problem, it\u2019s an obstacle,\u201d Carlos Curbelo, a former Republican congressman from Miami, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/02\/us\/abortion-democrats-florida.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em>. \u201cIt just gives Democrats a path to relevance in the state again, where they\u2019ve been just kind of completely bankrupt for some years now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-michigan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>strategy worked<\/a> in 2022 in the battleground state of Michigan. Michigan voted overwhelmingly in favor of abortion rights. They also voted for a second term for Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer among voting Democrats into other statewide offices.<\/p>\n<p>Florida, which used to be one of the most consistent swing states in the nation, has moved to the right since former President Barack Obama\u2019s win there in 2008. In 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flipped Miami-Dade County, the liberal stronghold of the state. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida Democrats are, however, looking forward to the cash flow the DNC will provide to their state now that they view it as \u201cwinnable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had folks within the White House telling us, \u2018We don\u2019t want you carrying the water on this because we don\u2019t believe this is going to happen,\u2019\u201d Book said. \u201cHere we are today, and I know that the Biden campaign has made a commitment, and those resources are coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Democrats see an opportunity in a Florida Supreme Court decision bringing abortion to the ballot, with Biden&#8217;s campaign eyeing Florida as &#8220;winnable.&#8221; Local Democrats aim to avoid politicizing the issue to prevent alienating state Republicans supporting more relaxed abortion laws<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2212092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/florida-biden-1024x601.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/florida-biden-1024x601.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212091","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\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}