Republicans suffered in 2023 elections as voters continued to punish the party for pushing unpopular abortion bans.
“Many abortion rights advocates have said it time and time again, but it bears repeating: Abortion restrictions are unpopular. Eight in 10 Americans believe that the decision to get an abortion should be made by the pregnant person, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll published just weeks after DeSantis signed his six-week abortion ban into law.
Nearly 75% of voters in a Change Research survey said that Republicans have gone too far on abortion restrictions this year, including 51% of those who voted for Trump in 2020. (Trump himself has even attributed his party’s defeat in last year’s midterms to candidates’ extreme stance on abortion.)” [READ MORE]
