'They're getting killed among women': Republicans frantically try to salvage Senate hopes
Increasingly concerned about their Senate prospects, Republicans have pulled the emergency cord: They’ve brought out the candidates’ wives. In state after state, Republican Senate candidates are trying to soften their image and appeal to women voters by having their wives or daughters speak to the camera.
That’s because, after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the wave of state abortion bans that followed, Republicans are in big trouble with women as they run candidates with extreme anti-abortion positions that voters are suddenly paying a lot of attention to. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found voters saying that abortion was the single issue most likely to make them vote—and that Democrats were leading Republicans among white suburban women, 52% to 40%. A Republican strategist told Politico that abortion came in just behind inflation as an issue Georgia and New Hampshire voters care about, according to internal polling. In other words, all those Republican efforts to claim that the only thing voters really care about is inflation are falling flat.
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