In public, Republicans are reveling after the Supreme Court granted a decision they’ve long desired. However, some are quietly feeling the midterm tides turn just as nearly everything had been going right for an overwhelming sweep.
Politico conducted dozens of interviews with Republican strategists and party officials that reveal a hint of worry about the hit GOP candidates could take during upcoming midterm elections due to reinvigorated Democrat voters.
A closed-door consensus has formed that the court’s overturning of precedent will be a liability for the party, perhaps even beyond midterms if former President Donald Trump chooses to run in 2024.
John Thomas, a Republican strategist who works on House campaigns across the country, said, “This is not a conversation we want to have.”
“We want to have a conversation about the economy. We want to have a conversation about Joe Biden, about pretty much anything else besides Roe … This is a losing issue for Republicans.”
A Republican operative who spoke to Politico on the condition of anonymity said the decision undercuts the progress Republicans have made with moderates and swing voters.
“It takes a sizeable bloc of voters who were leaning [Republican], and it gives them reason to vote Democrat,” he said. “And they haven’t had any reason to vote Democrat in quite a while.”
Not all who were interviewed were so negative. There isn’t a Republican or Democrat who thinks the issue will keep the GOP from reclaiming the House in November.
“Maybe instead of losing 45 seats, they lose 30,” said a former Congressman speaking anonymously. “There will be a few seats that Republicans would have won without [the Dobbs decision], and they may not win them now.”
Even polling from after the leaked draft showed abortion falling below other voter concerns.
National Republican strategist Dave Carney is confident that voters have more pressing things to worry about, such as ongoing inflation and recent shortages of essentials like baby formula.
“That’s not what’s driving the conversation. Real people, working people, people who vote, are talking about the incompetence of the president, and then they go down the list of six or seven things.”
As midterms approach, Republicans will attempt to keep the long list of economic issues at the forefront of public focus.
Abortion rights v Joe Bidens incompetence
If anyone actually thinks this way, shame on them. That particular issue is too great to worry about picking up less seats. No matter the outcome, what happened should have happened thirty years ago, or never at all.
Your correct in a way. It is the ruling a while back that the 10th amendment gave the power to the states to decide on Abortion and other things. This made Row v Wade already overturned. Thats what people did not realize. For a while now states have begun making their own laws anyways. So they had to do this as a formality due to a mistake made in the original ruling. So people protesting against this dont realize that nothing has changed. Its up to the states. Thats the way it was a week ago and the way it is now.
With that said, even if it is a bid deal we have a lot more problems thanks to the current administration like inflation, gas prices, and we are losing any credibility in the world.
Frankly, the GOP RINO decision to stab their constituency in the back over the Safer Communities Abomination is going to hurt far more than SCOTUS’s Roe Reversal.
I, and many others I know have left the Party over that F**kup.
Maybe there will be some true patriots who run as write-in candidates
Dumb azz Republicans crapped on their own midterm prospects by jumping on the Democrats gun bill. A pox on both of their houses and good riddance to the whole bunch.
Whooo, Hooo! The Leftist states can now expand Pro-abortion laws to include Infanticide. Red state ‘birthing persons’ that can not keep their legs closed and treat abortion as if it is cosmetic surgery, can simply go to California, Illinois or New York! Nothing has changed folks!!
Look, the SCOTUS decision was very weak in order to get the 5th and 6th SCOTUS vote. It could have considered the life of the ignoring party, THE BABY, under the 14th Amendment.
…but did not!
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws. …..That means the unborn baby!
Unborn children as constitutional persons
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20443281/#:~:text=As%20an%20effect%20of%20the,federal%20protection%20of%20unborn%20persons.
As an effect of the unanimity of the states in holding unborn children to be persons under criminal, tort, and property law, the text of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment compels federal protection of unborn persons. Furthermore, to the extent Justice Blackmun examined the substantive law in these disciplines, his findings are clearly erroneous and as a whole amount to judicial error. Moreover, as a matter of procedure, according to the due process standards recognized in Fifth Amendment jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade should be held null and void as to the rights and interests of unborn persons.
…but it was not!
Actually, I have a feeling that the SCOTUS decision will lead to even more GOP wins this year.
The majority of Americans are fed up with all of the crap from leftists, who are trying to inflict their insanity upon the entire world.
Wow these morons…if you vote demo u r lost forever…guaranteed…God is watching
Should have made plans long ago
When the Supreme Court makes a decision, based upon logical reading of the Constitution, that corrects an earlier mistake, Republicans should laud the decision. There is zero need to duck and hide.
“…dozens of interviews with Republican strategists and party officials” were made. But why not “interview” the voting public! Considering the Stock Market soared upon hearing the decision, it might be that the public in general has more favorable opinion and confidence in the Court and the decision than what the MSM is trying to push. The media has been known to push their own agenda.
Nonsense!!! This is probably the only thing that can prevent Civil War.
So, blood thirsty voters, will not be voting for Republicans…. Ok. Sounds perfect. Any Republican that is blood thirsty, needs to become a out of the closet Dem.