Why Roe being overturned before midterms would be a double-edged sword for Dems
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined by Senate democrats, addresses the media on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on the leaked draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, on May 3, 2022.Noah RothmanYou’ve heard it all before: The political environment heading into the midterm election season favors Republicans.
Democrats have struggled to navigate the issues that dominate American minds: the economy, the cost of living, crime and general maladministration in Washington. As late as that Monday morning, the Democrats’ hopes for a reprieve from the relentless news cycle were thin. The party wanted to turn Republican culture warring against the GOP by highlighting the good and noble work done by teachers, for example. They intended to make whatdescribed as “little-known Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow” into a national star to leverage her attack on an emerging far-right claim that sexual education in elementary schools is tantamount to child abuse.
In short, Democrats were desperate. Their strategy of ignoring voters’ priorities, overestimating their ability to hijack the national conversation, and maybe benefiting from anonly the fates could provide was not a strategy at all. It was a prayer. But with the leak of that Supreme Court draft opinion the fates may have delivered for Democrats. However, the opportunity that’s been bestowed on Joe Biden’s beleaguered party is as much a potential blessing as it is a curse.
The draft opinion sending the issue of abortion rights back to the individual states to decide provided a glimmer of hope in an otherwise bleak landscape for Democrats. The political press echoed what center-left political observers had been anticipating for months: This sweeping draft opinion, if it resembles the court’s final decision, could “
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