The trend is real: Democrats are doing better than they should be since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion. The backlash could even save the party in November.
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images/Shutterstock Democrats may somehow pull this off.
Only months ago, observers had written off the chances of Democrat Pat Ryan winning the swing district that Donald Trump carried in 2016 and Joe Biden won four years later. Instead, he not only defeated Republican Marc Molinaro but performed better than Biden did there in 2020. It’s the third time a Democrat has overperformed Biden in special elections for Congress this year, following similar results in Nebraska and Minnesota.
Molinaro’s biggest pushback on the issue of abortion was that in such a deep blue state as New York that personal views on abortion didn’t quite matter. After all, as he told the Washington Post, “I had thought, like most Americans, that this was settled.”
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