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Political Memo
The first-female-president vigor of 2016 has been replaced by a much superior tone, with Democrats informing gravely of the caller frontiers successful the post-Roe era.
By Katie Glueck
Katie Glueck spent the week astatine the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago, speaking with pistillate elected officials from crossed the country.
Aug. 24, 2024, 5:06 a.m. ET
They inactive deterioration suffragist-white outfits and cheer connected the imaginable of “Madam President.”
But 8 years aft Hillary Clinton became the archetypal pistillate to pb a large party’s statesmanlike ticket, Democrats are sending American women a much sober and urgent connection adjacent arsenic they effort to elite different barrier-breaking candidate.
Republican policies, they argue, person had disastrous and once-unthinkable consequences for the wellness and autonomy of women and their families since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. A 2nd word for erstwhile President Donald J. Trump, they warn, would beryllium adjacent much dangerous.
“Simply put,” Vice President Kamala Harris said this week from the signifier of her party’s convention, “they are retired of their minds.”
From the women who described harrowing pregnancies and their difficulties receiving aesculapian attraction to Ms. Harris’s finale connected Thursday night, the code and accent were a extremist departure from the optimistic feminism and chants of “I’m with her” that dominated Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
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“This is simply a clip wherever the rights of women are fundamentally nether onslaught arsenic it relates to abortion, I.V.F., erstwhile and however to person a family,” said Senator Laphonza Butler, Democrat of California and a adjacent Harris ally. “It’s not astir minimizing the value of contention oregon gender. It is astir appreciating that successful this infinitesimal successful the past of our country, this predetermination is bigger than anybody’s contention oregon gender.”
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