A dividing line Abortion hostility could return to haunt Trump's party in 2024

Republicans beware - abortion retains its saliency. As a corollary, Joe Biden is down but not out. On election day last week, voters in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky embraced individual autonomy and reproductive rights. Looking forward, the US supreme court's decision in the Dobbs case and the Trumpian majority's rejection of privacy as a fundamental constitutional right stand to haunt Trump and his party as they enter the 2024 election season.

-  Lloyd Green

Buckeye voters enshrined abortion rights in Ohio after having twice backed Donald Trump. Meanwhile, in the purplish Old Dominion, both houses of the Virginia legislature swung Democratic, a rebuff to the efforts of Glenn Youngkin, the state's Republican governor, to enact a 15-week abortion ban.

In Kentucky, Andy Beshear, the Democratic and pro-choice governor, handily defeated Daniel Cameron, the state's Republican attorney general. Last week, Trump figuratively embraced Cameron as Maga-approved. A few days later, Trump trashed him as a Mitch McConnell swamp creature.