Texas abortion law could hurt Republicans in 2022 midterm elections, experts say
WASHINGTON – As the United States pulled out of Afghanistan and chaos ensued, Republican lawmakers were swift to condemn President Joe Biden's handling of the withdrawal.
The violence that erupted in Kabul gave GOP officials an opening to attack the Democratic president, whose approach to the withdrawal was later met with disapproval in national polls. It quickly became political campaign fodder for Republicans who need a net gain of only five seats in the House and one in the Senate to recapture total control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.
Weeks later, conservatives were handed a victory when the Supreme Court sided with Texas Republicans in not blocking the most restrictive abortion law in the nation – in one of the United States' largest red states. But, unlike Afghanistan, it was met with a dim response from high-profile conservatives, most of whom didn't publicly celebrate the law that experts said could spell trouble for congressional Republicans when voters head to the polls next year.
Political strategists and academics pointed to a shifting narrative for people in the "middle" on abortion, and some suggested the new law may tilt too far to the right for even some in the Republican base.
"Republicans have been bleeding support among suburban women throughout the Trump era," Republican pollster Whit Ayers told USA TODAY. "
Texas) makes that problem worse, not better."
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