Biden pins Florida's 6-week abortion ban on Trump in Tampa remarks
The Biden campaign sees Florida's abortion law, and a November referendum, as helping the president's chances in a state won by Trump in the last two elections.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday scorched Florida's impending six-week abortion ban and said Donald Trump was responsible, casting the former president as a danger to women's freedoms.
"This extreme Florida law is going to impact 4 million women in the state," Biden said during a speech in Tampa. "Let's be real clear. There's one person responsible for this nightmare. And he's acknowledged and he brags about it – Donald Trump."
In territory that has been increasingly out of reach for Democrats, Biden ticked off a list of states from Ohio to Kentucky where troves of voters have supported abortion rights measures at the ballot box since the 2022 fall of Roe v. Wade.
"This November," the president said, "you can add Florida to that list."
Biden visited Trump's home state as the presumptive Republican nominee for president spent much of the day in a Manhattan courtroom for his hush money trial. The Biden campaign has attempted to build a narrative that it has a potential path to victory in Florida, despite Trump's decisive victories there in 2016 and 2020.
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