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Lauren Gambino in Washington DC

‘We need to read the room’: GOP divided on abortion as Democrats unite for 2024

Protester with sign saying keep abortion legal
Placing abortion at the heart of their campaigns was a successful strategy for Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA

Hours after Joe Biden announced his re-election campaign on Tuesday, his vice-president and 2024 running mate, Kamala Harris, delivered a fiery call to action for voters alarmed by the loss of constitutional protections for abortion.

“This is a moment for us to stand and fight,” she said to a packed auditorium at Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington and her alma mater. To the “extremist so-called leaders” rolling back access to reproductive rights, Harris warned: “Don’t get in our way because if you do, we’re going to stand up, we’re going to organize and we’re going to speak up.”

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