WASHINGTON — California Democrats facing close races could get an important political boost from Friday’s Supreme Court decision reversing its half-century-old ruling that women have a constitutional right to an abortion.
The court’s upending of Roe v. Wade “could give Democrats some help in shoring up their base in certain places, such as in some of the Biden-won districts in California that they are defending and targeting,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political analysis organization.
In the state’s 10 most competitive House districts, as defined by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, 59% of all likely voters said they wanted the landmark 1973 abortion rights ruling kept in place while 15% said they wanted it overturned, according to a May 12-22 Public Policy Institute of California poll.
