Abortion Rights in North Carolina
This thread is titled "The Defining Issue of 2024." Last night was Super Tuesday and the presidential primary elections dominated the news. In elections in 16 states, where mostly party members vote for candidates of their own parties to help determine their party presidential nominees, Trump and Biden dominated.
Regarding abortion rights, which were not an issue in these party primary races, North Carolina gave us this glimpse.
From CNN: "North Carolina is Biden's best chance to flip a state from the 2020 map, and it's also home to the highest-stakes governor's race of the year. The contest is between GOP Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein, and the policy debate could be dominated by abortion rights in the Tarheel State, where the Republican legislative supermajority passed a 12-week ban over the objection of outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper."
Yet again, in yet another state, we see abortion rights rise as the defining issue of 2024. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, we've seen several elections in several states where abortion rights were on the ballot. In every case, the people voted overwhelmingly to restore the abortion rights the Supreme Court took away. Abortion rights bring people to the polls to reverse the Republican overreach, to reject the Republican abortion restrictions the people do not want.
It appears the same thing is shaping up in North Carolina. In that state's governor's race, abortion rights voters will turn out in droves to elect the Democrat whose abortion views align with their own. And while they're voting in the other races on the ballot, they are likely to vote blue.