US President Joe Biden was seemingly confused while he was trying to leave the stage during his campaign trail in Florida.
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Biden is pushing for abortion rights which will resonate in the conservative-leaning state. Won by Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, and led by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, the southeastern state has been out of reach for Democrats for nearly a decade.
However, since the Supreme Court under Trump’s presidency stripped the federal right to abortion, voters have rallied on the issue, even in solidly Republican states.
It has been noted that the stakes for Florida voters are high and the state supreme court recently upheld a ban on abortion after six weeks, set to go into effect May 1.
That ban could be overturned at the polls in November but when a state measure to enshrine abortion rights will also be on the ballot. Since the Supreme Court returned abortion rights to each state to regulate, 21 states have banned or severely restricted abortion.
However, abortion rights campaigners have won every time the issue went directly to voters. Biden, 81 and a lifelong Catholic, has long fought Trump on abortion, an issue on which the 77-year-old has found himself pinned between hardline Republicans and more moderate voters.
