The New Yorker:

Candidates are betting on abortion outrage and MAGA enthusiasm. Why did one Republican field organizer tell canvassers to think twice about mentioning the former President?

By Peter Slevin 

It was a sleepy afternoon in the Michigan storefront that houses the campaign operation of Hillary Scholten, a Democratic candidate for Congress. Flyers stacked on folding tables, yard signs ready for the occasional visitor. The vibe was distinctly late August, a time when many campaigns are quietly getting their voter lists in order and hoarding energy for the intense weeks to come. But, in a political year turned inside out by the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, supporters began streaming in, hungry to knock on doors. Ten people would have been useful, twenty an uncommon success. By 5 p.m., nearly a hundred people had crowded into Scholten’s headquarters.

Scholten, a former Justice Department attorney and immigrant-rights advocate, stood at the front of the room. On the wall behind her, a handwritten sign declared her determination to “ensure that women always have the right to make their own health care decisions.” Some in the audience held preprinted placards from naral, the abortion-rights organization, that read “Freedom Is for Every Body.” Scholten said that, as recently as a decade ago, she couldn’t have imagined such a showing for abortion rights in a place like Grand Rapids, which is near where Michigan’s Right to Life movement is based. The Supreme Court had frightened and infuriated many women, and more than a few men, who want abortion to be legal and accessible. Scholten aims to ride that energy into Congress, in search of a majority that “understands the depth and complexity of this issue and will always fight to protect women’s reproductive freedom.”

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