President Joe Biden East travel to Florida Tuesday to deliver a speech highlighting Democrats’ efforts to secure abortion access and nominate the former president Donald Trump as a threat to reproductive rights.
Tampa trip aims to “strongly advocate for reproductive freedom and denounce Donald Trump’s abortion bans, as he has since Roe was overturned,” campaign spokesperson said Biden’s Michael Tyler speaks to reporters during a call previewing the president’s travel plans.
The Biden campaign has focused on what it sees as a potential path to victory in a red state, he considers it “winnable,” despite Trump’s victories in 2016 and 2020.
“The idea that Donald Trump has the state in the bag couldn’t be further from the truth,” Tyler said. “He not only owns the right to abortion across the country, but he also owns the restrictions that we see applying in Florida.”
NBC News reported that Biden’s remarks in Florida will also touch on the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling this month that a almost total ban on abortion which dates from 1864 is enforceable.
Biden is visiting Florida days before a six-week abortion ban that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last year takes effect. next to anot April 1 state supreme court ruling.
Biden’s campaign sought to tie Trump to the state’s post-Roe law and indicated that a proposed amendment on the November ballot, which would enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution, could help his chances of flipping the state.
In a NBC News 2022 Midterm Exit Poll, 56% of Florida voters said abortion should be legal. Among voters surveyed, 24 percent said abortion was the most important factor in their vote choice.
Trump won Florida in 2020, with 51.2% of the vote against 47.9% for Biden.
Trump, who lives in Florida but will be in New York on Tuesday for his silent trialexpressed his support for various positions on abortion over the years, although he regularly speaks on the campaign trail about how he appointed conservative judges who helped overturn Roe v. Wade. After raising the possibility of a federal ban on abortion, he recently said that abortion laws should be decided by states but also that the Arizona Supreme Court I went too far in his decision.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022, abortion has appeared on the ballot in several states and consistent victories for abortion rights groups. This should remain a key question in Novemberbut it is not yet clear whether this will galvanize voters with the same force as during the midterm elections.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
