{"id":49960,"date":"2022-06-29T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49960"},"modified":"2022-06-29T21:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T04:08:13","slug":"republicans-face-complicated-reality-post-roe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49960","title":{"rendered":"Republicans face complicated reality post-Roe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s decision to strike down decades of precedent protecting access to an abortion was hailed as a win for conservatives, but the political reality for Republicans is likely to be far more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Polling has shown a majority of the American public disapproves of the Supreme Court\u2019s position, and prominent Republicans have tip-toed around calls from some conservatives for stricter abortion laws around the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shifting conversation from economy<\/strong>: John Thomas, a Republican strategist who has worked on House campaigns, expected Democrats to see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A spike in small-dollar donations<\/li>\n<li>A distraction from the economic woes that have sunk President Biden\u2019s approval ratings and been a central focus of Republicans on the campaign trail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of the short term, this is a winning conversation for Democrats, particularly vulnerable Democrats where there are lots of college educated white women,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cThis gives them a bit of a reprieve from what was otherwise considered just a brutal conversation on almost every front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Risks going forward<\/strong>: The risk, strategists say, lies in how vigorously Republican state legislatures and governors push for abortion bans and how Republicans handle the issue if they retake the majorities in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aggressively pursuing abortion bans could backfire, given polling shows Roe was broadly popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s decision to strike&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49961,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49960\/revisions\/49961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}