How the Biden campaign quickly mobilized on Trump's abortion stance
President Joe Biden's campaign quickly launched an aggressive strategy to go after Trump's stance on abortion this week, with the larger effort led by Vice President Kamala Harris.
WASHINGTON — When Donald Trump released a video about his abortion stance Monday morning, President Joe Biden’s campaign was ready to pounce, launching an aggressive strategy to pin the presumptive Republican nominee down on his record and amplifying his desire to take credit for overturning Roe v. Wade.
The re-election effort said that over the last two days, it has mobilized every tool at its disposal to take the fight directly to Trump on an issue it believes will be most mobilizing for voters in November, acting faster than it has in other key moments in the post-Roe era.
The more aggressive strategy highlights how the Biden campaign plans to go on offense on reproductive freedom, a larger effort that has publicly been led by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Within hours of Trump’s saying it should be up to the states to decide abortion policy — while declining to say whether he would sign a national abortion ban if he is elected president — Biden had already shot a direct-to-camera response video, recorded at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, before he departed for a day trip to the Midwest.
In a coordinated rollout, the Biden campaign then released a 60-second ad featuring a Texas woman who nearly died twice from a miscarriage because she was denied care. It ended with a slate that read: “Donald Trump did this.”
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