The Biden campaign plans to mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overcome President Joe Biden has stormed the country with messaging and events at odds with those of former President Donald Trump over the landmark Roe v. that guaranteed federal abortion rights, according to information shared exclusively with NBC News. The Wade decision.
The campaign will hold more than 30 events to mobilize volunteers and reach out to voters in battleground states including Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Las Vegas the weekend before and on the anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling.
Campaign officials also plan to use the upcoming anniversary, just days before Biden addresses Trump for the first time on June 27, as an opportunity to talk about the stakes of the election and attack Trump’s past statements on abortion.
“What you’re going to see on this anniversary is every arm, every piece of muscle in this campaign will be mobilized for this issue and part of this effort,” said Morgan Mohr, the Biden campaign’s senior adviser on reproductive rights. in the interview. “We’ve seen it work and we’re excited to take advantage of this opportunity. And we’re excited to continue doing it every week for the next 20 weeks until we win this election.”
Mohr described the anniversary of the Dobbs decision as “a two-year mark of the devastation Trump has wrought across the country,” adding that the campaign plans to “show voters exactly what the entire nation is doing to women.”
The overall strategy comes as the Biden campaign sees abortion as a uniquely mobilizing issue, with several state ballot measures to put abortion access on voters in November. That’s what Americans say in interviews and a number of surveys againatedly said abortion is an important issue that will influence the way they vote.
As part of the bid, Biden and several campaign surrogates and celebrities, including Vice President Kamala Harris, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith, and actress Lisa Ann Walter, joined Roe v. Wade sweeping the country.
The Biden campaign, which has made telling the personal stories of women affected by abortion restrictions a key part of its messaging, will feature more of those stories in new ads ahead of the anniversary.
The campaign also plans to hold virtual and in-person storytelling workshops to help women tell their stories and believe reproductive freedom is important. Kaitlyn Kash, Amanda Zurawski, Kaitlyn Joshua, Dr. Women who have faced health scares over abortion laws, including Austin Dennard, Latorya Beasley and Lauren Miller, will also be speaking out across the country for campaign events.
The campaign also plans to have surrogates on the airwaves and popular internet creators and personalities to distribute information and news updates about the Biden campaign at events and rallies.
In an interview with NBC News, the 37-year-old from Austin, Texas, said she welcomed the opportunity to share her story to help get Kash Biden re-elected. She said she traveled out of state to have an abortion when she was 13 weeks pregnant with her second child after learning the fetus had a fatal birth defect. Later, she gave birth to a healthy daughter through in vitro fertilization.
Kash was a member of a group of women sued Texas to clarify when exceptions to a state’s abortion ban can be made. The Texas Supreme Court ruled against the women last month, saying the medical exemptions in Texas law are broad enough.
“I have to give my time and my story to the national level because my state won’t protect me,” Kash said. “My government has made it very clear that they don’t care if I live or die, and they don’t care about my right to do what I want to do. That’s why I need federal protection.”
She added that she hopes others will be empowered by hearing her story.
“I want women to hear our stories and hopefully feel comfortable talking to someone about their decisions or what they need to do, because you don’t have to do it alone,” Kash said. “I also want to remove the stigma from this conversation. Abortion is a health service and health care is a basic human right. We need to talk about it and let women know that they are supported, we care about them, we love them and we want to help them.”
Kash said he was also motivated after the Supreme Court’s decision last week reject a problem The abortion pill mifepristone, a commonly used drug, may be widely available. She said the pill she used during labor provided relief but remained available, stressing that abortion rights opponents would seek to limit access to the procedure.
“I’m absolutely afraid that we won’t just stop with these kinds of bans and there will be a national ban,” he said. “I think it’s important for women, especially in war zones, to hear, ‘You might think your rights are protected now, but unless we can do something at the federal level, they might not be.'”
While Trump has said he wants abortion left up to the states, the Biden campaign said he would continue to say Trump and Republicans can’t be trusted and would seek a national abortion ban if given the chance.
Asked how this week’s Supreme Court decision on abortion drugs affects the campaign’s plans, Mohr said his message calling for mifepristone is “just one part of a massive multi-pronged strategy to ban abortion nationwide.”
“We’re seeing in real time the chaos, the confusion, the brutality that he’s created,” Mohr said of Trump. “It’s not the end. We haven’t hit rock bottom yet, but it’s been terrible enough. And if he comes back and wreaks havoc on all 50 states, what he’s done could get worse.”