Since Roe was overturned, we have seen an erosion of reproductive freedom in states across the country.
The decision by the Alabama Supreme Court is only the latest attack – and it’s why we won’t back down from this fight. pic.twitter.com/ofuqzLRCXG
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) February 23, 2024
I don’t know how far Joe Biden could see into the future when he picked Kamala Harris as his running mate, but we have all been very much the better for that choice!
“In America, freedom is not to be given, not to be bestowed, but it is ours by right. And that includes the freedom to make decisions about one’s own body, and not have the government telling people what to do.”
– VP @kamalaharris pic.twitter.com/l88jL4RocQ— Madam Vice President (@MadamVPOTUS) February 23, 2024
Keep in mind, the Washington Post is the company paper for the town whose main industry is national politics. Which is why I’m happy to share a couple of excellent articles showing how much Vice-President Harris has won over a sometimes skeptical press corps. First, Jen Rubin — “Kamala Harris is an underrated asset” [gift link]:
Vice President Harris was never as flawed as her critics made her out to be. From the onset of her term, she maintained a rigorous and effective diplomatic travel schedule and bolstered President Biden’s fight for voting rights. Unlike Biden, she never got ahead of the president on policy. Unlike former vice president Dan Quayle, she never made a late-night-comedy-worthy gaffe. And she has avoided her predecessor’s cringeworthy fawning…
However, whatever one thought of her early days in the administration, those who look carefully will see that she has hit her stride, providing Biden with key support among critical constituencies. Most prominently, her fierce and eloquent defense of abortion rights post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has “broken through” with voters, according to respected Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. Her empathic rhetoric tying abortion to “freedom” has helped reset the pro-choice message…
In particular, she has excelled in her role as Biden defender and prosecutor of the case against four-times indicted former president Donald Trump. She launched a succinct and compelling indictment of special counsel Robert K. Hur’s lapse in prosecutorial judgment. “As a former prosecutor,” she declared Hur’s comments about Biden’s age and memory “gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate.”
She concluded that “the way that the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and, clearly, politically motivated — gratuitous … We should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw.” Her delivery was crisp, her tone appropriately indignant and her eyewitness account of Biden’s actual performance the single most effective rebuttal to the age issue…
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