Watch: Dems Continue To Use Abortion As Key Midterm Token

By Rachel Morris | Saturday, 06 August 2022 12:00 PM
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The top super PAC backing Senate Democrats didn’t wait long to take aim at Blake Masters, the newly nominated Republican Senate challenger to Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, over the explosive matter of limiting abortion access.

"Three years ago, I had an ectopic pregnancy. If I didn’t make it into the OR within a couple minutes, I was going to bleed out and die," states Brianna, a mother of three from Phoenix who endured a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy and explained she was saved by an abortion, at the top of a new spot by Senate Majority PAC.

"But according to Blake Masters, that's just too bad. He wants to ban all abortions, even in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother," Brianna claims, as she blasts Arizona’s GOP Senate nominee. "Masters is so extreme and so wrong for Arizona."

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Masters campaign adviser Katie Miller, responding to the spot, charged that "the Democrats are knowingly lying about Blake Masters by putting up an ad with no sourcing, because they don’t want the attention to be on Senator Mark Kelly’s absolutely failure on the border and the astronomical cost of gas & groceries."

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Senate Majority PAC says it’s spending $1.2 million to run the commercial in the swing state of Arizona.

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The group, which is aligned with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is also up this week with an ad in another key Senate battleground, North Carolina. The spot – supported by six figures – targets Rep. Ted Budd, the GOP Senate nominee in the race to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Richard Burr.

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"Budd wants abortion outlawed, with no exceptions for rape or incest," the narrator in the spot charges, referring to an interview Budd gave earlier this year in which he proposed he wouldn’t backed such exceptions in any abortion ban.

The races in Arizona and North Carolina are among a handful that will likely determine if the Republicans win back the Senate majority.

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Democrats face historical headwinds, as the party that wins the White House and control of Congress traditionally suffers significant setbacks in the House and Senate in the ensuing midterm elections. They’re further up against a very unfavorable political climate, fed by record inflation and increasing crime, and symbolized by President Biden’s deeply negative approval ratings.

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Yet pointing to the matters of gun violence, after a slate of high-profile mass shootings in recent months, and abortion in the wake of the move by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which sent the matter of abortion regulation back to the states. Democrats see an energized electorate that will assist them to defy the present expectations by political prognosticators.

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