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The Conversation Republicans Don’t Want to Have [1]

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Date: 2022-09-24

Republicans have rolled out their campaign agenda for the upcoming midterms. The “Commitment to America”, focuses on three key themes that Republicans believe will allow them to wrestle back control of Congress: inflation, the border, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Missing from this is an issue that Republicans have spent decades fighting for, an issue they finally succeeded in getting done: striking down Roe v Wade. House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, played a very transparent trick in rolling out the commitment, saying that President Joe Biden has been distracting the electorate with lies about Republicans, but Republicans will not let him change the narrative. The truth is, there’s nothing about abortion in this pledge, because abortion is the issue that will most certainly deny Republicans the Senate, and has made the race for the House competitive again. Republicans are desperate not to talk about abortion.

Abortion has not been the electoral gift that Republicans expected. Since the Supreme Court struck down abortion, Republican fortunes have dissipated. They have not been able to agree on a strategy for banning abortions at the state level. For instance, in South Carolina, efforts to ban abortion have come unglued, even though the state has a partisan lean of R+18.6. Failing to press home their advantage, women, and indeed Democrats as a whole, across the country have been outraged, and motivated. At the electoral level, since the Supreme Court’s decision, the 2-point lead Republicans had over Democrats in a generic-ballot has melted away, with Democrats now having a 1.9 lead .

Source: FiveThirtyEight

The Supreme Court’s decision, the result of decades of campaigning, is the issue that Republicans want to avoid. They know that the Supreme Court handed the election to Democrats, by exposing the deep cynicism, and pre-modern views, of the Republican party. Americans everywhere got a taste of what Republican rule meant: restrictions on freedom, curtailing of rights, a return to the world of the 1950s. The midterms are a choice between reducing freedoms, and expanding them. That is the conversation that Republicans want to avoid, because they know that if they articulate their vision for America, ordinary Americans, even some of their own constituents, will stand back in horror.

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