Jill Biden warned that women could die under Donald Trump’s presidency as she stressed the importance of reproductive rights in this year’s election.
The first lady, during a rally in Arizona to get out the vote for Kamala Harris, warned that Trump was taking the country back to the days before Roe v. Wade, after his Supreme Court picks helped overturn the landmark abortion rights ruling. .
‘Secret, shame, silence, danger, even death. “That was the reality then, and that is where Donald Trump has left women today,” she said.
She noted that after Roe was overturned, she was “shocked, devastated, but looking back, I knew I shouldn’t have been so surprised.” I knew that Donald Trump had chosen three judges to restrict reproductive freedom.
Democrats see abortion rights as a winning issue as they have used it to rally their base at the polls in the 2022 midterm elections.
The first lady, who is campaigning for Harris in five states, will push that theme repeatedly during her stops in key battleground states.
Jill Biden warns that women could die under Donald Trump’s presidency
Abortion is a major issue in Arizona, which has Proposition 139, an amendment to the Arizona Constitution to add a fundamental right to abortion, on its November ballot.
The first lady’s stop was part of the Harris campaign’s Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour, which makes several stops in Arizona.
Actors Bryan Cranston and Sophia Bush are part of the tour. Biden greeted them both with hugs while thanking the volunteers on the bus.
Trump has tried to take credit for overturning Roe v. Wade, who has long been a target of evangelical and conservative voters, while avoiding political fallout. He has said that the right to abortion should be decided by the states.
Biden, during his remarks in Phoenix on Saturday night, warned that ‘today our daughters and granddaughters live with fewer rights than we do.’
This Nov. 10, states will have abortion measures on their ballot seeking to affirm that the state constitution protects the right to abortion or that nothing in the constitution confers such a right, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Following the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 13 states have a complete abortion ban and 28 states have abortion bans based on length of gestation.
‘The government should not tell women what to do. So let’s elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” Biden told the cheering crowd.
She urged people to do it for the “generations of women who have fought for our rights and for all the men who understand that this is their fight too.”
And he added: ‘Girls will grow up in the world we will decide this November.’
Arizona is one of the most contested battlegrounds in the 2024 election. Both the Harris and Trump campaigns are spending considerable resources on this.
And it’s where Jill Biden made her first campaign stop for Kamala Harris, promoting her candidacy at two days of events.
Trump will hold a rally in Phoenix on Sunday. He is leading 51% to Harris’ 46% in the state New York Times/Sienna survey found.
Donald Trump has said that abortion should be decided by the states
The first lady used her previous events in Arizona to criticize Trump for supporting an abortion ban and tax breaks for corporations, describing the former president as greedy and selfish.
He also addressed “lies” about Harris, who has been the subject of conspiracy theories and false claims by Trump.
“You’re probably already hearing all kinds of lies about Kamala,” he said at an event in Yuma on Friday night. He went on to describe Harris’ work as attorney general, senator and vice president of California.
Trump has falsely accused Harris of lying about working at McDonalds as a teenager and has misrepresented the role she played in the Biden administration’s work on border security.
Jill Biden painted a more compassionate picture of the Democratic presidential candidate, talking about her crime-fighting work as attorney general and how she helped a high school friend who was living in an abusive situation.
“That’s the Kamala Harris I know: a fast, tough, compassionate and decisive leader, and that’s the kind of president Arizona deserves,” he said.
And Biden repeatedly attacked Trump for his role in appointing Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“Donald Trump’s abortion ban has taken away that ability from women to make their own health care decisions,” she said.
“No one has to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to accept that the government should not tell women what to do with their bodies.”
In addition to the first lady, Harris’ campaign sent running mate Tim Walz and second gentleman Doug Emhoff to Arizona.
Harris spent Thursday and Friday in the Phoenix area, where she also emphasized the fight for abortion rights.
Jill Biden made her first campaign stop for Kamala Harris, rallying voters in Arizona
Early voting has begun in Arizona, and the first lady reminded people that President Biden only won the state by 10,457 votes in the 2020 race.
On Saturday morning in Phoenix, he spoke to a group of educators out canvassing votes and reminded them that every vote counts.
‘You know the first time I voted I almost didn’t vote for my future husband. It’s true. Can you imagine if I hadn’t? I mean, thank God I did,’ he said.
she noticed she was a student at the University of Delaware at the time and Joe Biden was running for senator.
“Actually, Joe won that election by only 3,000 votes, so it could easily have been the other way around,” he said.
This is Jill Biden’s fourth time in Arizona this year, but her first appearance for Kamala Harris.
She kicked off a campaign rally for the Democratic candidate on Friday in Yuma, Arizona.
He will be in Carson City and Reno, Nevada, on Sunday, while spending Monday in the Detroit suburbs and Madison, Wisconsin.
Their trip will conclude Tuesday with a stop in their hometown of Philadelphia.