Vice President Kamala Harris is emphasizing abortion as a key situation within the run-up to the 2024 election, making ready quite a few rallies across the administration’s pro-choice message.
Harris rolled out the Combat for Our Reproductive Freedoms Tour this week as President Biden’s team ramps up efforts for the upcoming election yr.
“I will continue to fight for our fundamental freedoms while bringing together those throughout America who agree that every woman should have the right to make decisions about her own body — not the government,” Harris mentioned in a press release.
This assertion was adopted with an announcement on social media accompanied by a video message.
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“Across our nation, there is a full-on attack on a woman’s fundamental freedom to make decisions about her own body,” the vice chairman mentioned. “In the new year, I will be traveling the country to organize, build community and fight back. Because when we fight, we win.”
The tour will kick off in Wisconsin Jan. 22, the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court docket’s Roe v. Wade choice.
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The nationwide effort is a follow-up to Harris’s Combat for Our Freedoms School Tour.
That earlier tour aimed to “mobilize young people in the ongoing fight for fundamental freedoms and rights,” in keeping with the White Home, significantly causes like “critical fights for reproductive freedom, commonsense gun safety laws, climate action, voting rights, LGBTQ+ equality and teaching America’s full story.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Hampton College throughout her Combat for Our Freedoms School Tour Sept. 14, 2023, in Hampton, Va. (AP Photograph/John C. Clark)
Final month, Harris reacted to quite a lot of polls exhibiting former President Donald Trump was forward of Biden in hypothetical election matchups — together with particular key battleground states — throughout an interview with CNN and mentioned they had been going to need to earn their re-election.
“We’re going to have to earn our re-elect, there’s no doubt about it,” she instructed CNN in a telephone interview Sunday, replying to a query in regards to the latest surveys.
“It is absolutely right in a democracy with free and fair elections that the candidates, the people who want to continue in leadership, have to make their case and have to make it effectively,” Harris instructed CNN. “And that means communicating in such a way that the message is received about the accomplishments and what we care about.”
Fox Information Digital’s Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
