Democrats hope to tap anger over Roe in November midterms – will it work?

Nancy Pelosi speaks at her weekly press conference on Friday about the overturning of Roe v Wade. Pundits say it’s not clear the ruling will help Democrats. Photograph: Mary F Calvert/Reuters

“This fall, Roe is on the ballot,” Joe Biden told American voters in the wake of the US supreme court’s decision to scrap abortion rights.

The US president was merely echoing a chorus of Democrats urging voters to elect pro abortion-rights lawmakers in November’s midterm elections in a bid to wrest greater control of Congress and perhaps allow abortion rights to be enshrined in legislation.