How the GOP threat in 2022 just got much uglier after Roe

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Now that SCOTUS gutted Roe, Christian nationalist Doug Mastriano is 4 points away from criminalizing abortion in Pennsylvania. If Dem voters don't turn out, prepare for abortion bans in swing states.

"A clear and present danger," @JoshShapiroPA tells me:

washingtonpost.com
Opinion | How the GOP threat in 2022 just got much uglier after Roe
Abortion bans could soon come to blue-leaning swing states. And that's only the beginning.
8:40 AM · Jun 27, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/27/scotus-roe-doug-mastriano-gubernatorial-races/

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https://archive.ph/ITY7X

Democrats were shocked earlier this month when a poll showed Republican Doug Mastriano trailing by only four points in the race for Pennsylvania governor. This was despite Mastriano’s hard-right extremism: He bused protesters to D.C. before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, is brimming with messianic Christian nationalism and has appeared at QAnon events.

But Mastriano poses a concrete threat in another way, now that the Supreme Court has struck down the constitutional right to abortion. Mastriano is only four points away from both banning abortion entirely in Pennsylvania and criminalizing it there, as he has pledged to do.

Mastriano is only the most glaring example of a central post-Roe threat to abortion rights: the move to dramatically restrict abortion or ban it entirely in blue-leaning swing states, not just in red ones.

Right now, Republicans control the state legislatures in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, and a Republican could win the gubernatorial race in any one of them. GOP candidates in all three have pledged to ban or dramatically restrict abortion.

All this has other hidden implications as well: For instance, if abortion is banned in a state such as Pennsylvania, that would remove an important option in seeking reproductive care for people from neighboring states that have also banned it.

[onecaliberal]

1. We have been warned. If people don't vote after this, we are done.

[Ohio Joe]

2. A bit of an odd take by the post...

Per the poll they cite:

The governor's race is much closer with Democrat Josh Shapiro with a four-point lead over Republican Doug Mastriano. That's within the margin of error, making this a jump ball between the two.

"The fact that it's a four-point lead is somewhat surprising," Ceisler said.

"The assumption was that Mastriano would be a candidate that would be an easy walk-over, and this poll is telling us that's not the case," Paleologos said.

What's giving Shapiro the lead at this point is strong support from women, who outnumber men in Pennsylvania. While Mastriano is leading among males (46% to 39%), Shapiro has a 16-point lead among women (50% to 34%).

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/poll-fetterman-leads-oz-closer-race-between-shapiro-and-mastriano/

Plus, the article is from 6/16/2022... Before Roe was over turned... I'll be interested to see what the next one shows.

[Nevilledog]

3. You mean poll, right? Article is from today.

[Ohio Joe]

4. The article you linked is from today...

And that article cites a poll/article from 6/16/2022 (the link I put it is from the article linked in the OP).