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...In the 2020 election, Trump won Florida by 3 percentage points over Biden, while Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by a little more than a percentage point in 2016....
...The Supreme Court’s overturning of the Roe vs Wade right to abortion in June 2022 was one of the biggest reasons Republicans failed to sweep the midterm elections a few months later....
...“Trump put into place three Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe vs Wade....
...Just hours ago the Biden campaign announced that it would raise more than $25mn later today at a star-studded fundraiser featuring former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton....
...First, the backlash against the repeal of Roe vs Wade, and draconian anti-abortion laws in Republican states like Texas, is of existential concern to millions of women. This could tip the election....
...Democrat Bill Clinton won back the White House by recapturing some of this cultural ground....
...Wade decision, there was a very clever, diabolical understanding on the part of the right that they could turn that into a political issue and rooted in evangelical fundamentalist churches....
...Join Hillary Rodham Clinton, Salman Rushdie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barbara Sturm, your favourite FT writers, and more on May 20 in Washington, DC, and online to experience it....
...and his party are facing the midterms with greater confidence that they can avoid the resounding electoral defeats experienced during the first terms in office of two of his Democratic predecessors: Bill Clinton...
...Clinton speaks about how some states will make it illegal to abort after rape and incest if Roe vs Wade is overturned....
...The series on the impeachment of Bill Clinton was among the first of its kind to treat Monica Lewinsky not as a temptress but as a victim....
...subsidies for clean energy and measures to cut prescription drug costs, as well as the Biden administration’s stance in defence of abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old Roe vs Wade...
...This was a 40-point swing in the six years since Hillary Clinton won the county by 30 points in her 2016 tilt at the White House. If a week is a long time in politics, then two years is an aeon....
...The US Supreme Court has upturned women’s right to abortion by voting to reverse Roe vs Wade. Had women fought for it together, this would not have happened....
...Democrats are doubling down on messaging around abortion following the Supreme Court’s momentous decision to overturn Roe vs Wade in June....
...In terms of domestic politics, the Biden administration has put a lot of effort into winning back working people lost to Republicans from the Clinton years onwards....
...(Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Trump all lost their first midterms badly.) Some primaries and special elections across the nation suggest a party running ahead of where it “should” be....
...That arguably is the story of Bill Clinton and how the Newt Gingrich 1994 revolution did not lead to Bill Clinton’s defeat in 1996 for quite the opposite....
...that they would be facing a very difficult midterm cycle as a burst in inflation has strained American household finances, leaving the current leadership possibly in line to suffer the same fate as Bill Clinton...
...If Biden loses Congress at his first midterm elections in November, he will just be emulating Barack Obama in 2010 and Bill Clinton in 1994....
...My friend, the late Walter Dellinger, who was acting solicitor-general during the Bill Clinton presidency, gave me some help with the Supreme Court volume and reminded me there have been other periods when...
...Even then, the tougher version was only used rarely until the Clinton era, when today’s more obstructionist politics took hold....
...At the same time, they need to contend with Trump himself, who despite being banned from all major social media platforms after the events of January 6 frequently wades into public debates and toys with...
...Looking back, perhaps it did not matter all that much whether George HW Bush or Bill Clinton won the 1992 election....
...Historians attribute the trend in part to the women’s rights movement and the Democratic party’s support for the Equal Rights Amendment and the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe vs Wade....
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