Why the GOP isn’t scared of the Dobbs effect anymore
For Republicans, the end of Roe v. Wade has gone from a cause for celebration to something they’d rather not talk about.
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022, the GOP has repeatedly paid a price electorally.
Voters shot down anti-abortion measures in red states like Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, and Montana.
And in the 2022 midterms the Dobbs decision clearly contributed to the party’s lackluster results.
Now on the presidential primary campaign trail, Republicans have been in disarray:
Early in his campaign, Sen. Tim Scott couldn’t figure out what he believed on the issue; Donald Trump has belittled Ron DeSantis’s six-week ban in Florida; and then there’s the general dodginess of Nikki Haley, who claims to be “unapologetically pro-life” but also thinks the right abortion policy is to “find consensus.”
The chaos has been dispiriting to the anti-abortion activists who helped engineer the Dobbs decision in the first place. And now they think they have a new political strategy to get Republicans out of their
