President Joe Biden leaned into abortion Tuesday, using a speech in Donald Trump’s new home state of Florida to continue his attempts to place the overturning of Roe v. Wade squarely on his predecessor’s shoulders.
Biden went directly at the presumed Republican presidential nominee almost from the start of his remarks, saying to cheers at a Tampa community college that Trump “should be held accountable” for the “cruelty and chaos” that the end of federal abortion protections ushered in. And he noted his once-and-again general election foe “brags” about orchestrating the law’s termination.
The Democratic president called on supporters to send Trump and other Republicans a message on Election Day: “Don’t mess with the women of America.” Trump has said each state should decide its own abortion access laws, “but he’s wrong,” Biden said Tuesday, adding, “The Supreme Court was wrong.
