President Joe Biden attacked Republicans for their efforts to restrict abortion rights at a campaign event in Virginia on Tuesday, but his comments were repeatedly interrupted by people protesting his policies toward Israel.
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As a result, on the same day that people were voting for a Republican presidential candidate in New Hampshire, Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris spoke in a battleground state about abortion, an issue that has proven to drive voters to the polls to oppose to conservative measures.
“The person most responsible for taking away this freedom in the United States is Donald Trump,” Biden said of the former president and current candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
It is worth remembering that the US Supreme Court, with a conservative majority made possible by three judges who joined the court under Trump, overturned in 2022 the Roe vs Wade decision that guaranteed women’s right to abortion in the country.
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With that, the crowd cheered Biden, but it wasn’t entirely friendly. That’s because there were too many interruptions that forced Biden to pause or try to speak amid chants of “Ceasefire now,” “Genocide Joe” and other insults, because of his support for Israel and his attack on Gaza following an attack Hamas surprise to Israel on October 7 last year.
Furthermore, Biden got loud applause from the audience when he promised to veto a national abortion ban if Republicans managed to pass it in Congress. His rally came after Virginia Democrats secured a majority in the state Legislature after making abortion a central campaign issue last year.
Biden and Kamala kicked off a series of events on Monday to highlight Democrats’ policies on abortion and what they describe as Republican threats to those rights.