Kellyanne Conway thinks Republicans can win back women in 2024 by saying, “We took away your abortion rights, but we’re letting you keep contraception”
Kellyanne Conway thinks Republicans can win back women in 2024 by saying, “We took away your abortion rights, but we’re letting you keep contraception”
A real slogan for the ages.
Something you’ve probably heard by now is that the Republican Party’s decision to decimate reproductive rights—and celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade like it was the greatest thing to ever happen to America—has not gone over great with voters. The 2022 midterm elections, which were supposed to be a red tsunami for the GOP, were anything but: Democrats picked up a seat in the Senate and Republicans just barely took back the House, with voters in critical states citing abortion as the most important issue of the day. A year later, the right to an abortion was enshrined in Ohio’s state constitution; Kentucky voters reelected pro-choice governor Andy Beshear; and Democrats took control of Virginia’s state legislature, preventing the GOP governor from limiting abortion moving forward, which he’d planned to do. The results were unambiguous: The American people want abortion rights.
Now, with the 2024 election less than a year away, what are Republicans running for higher office to do? According to GOP strategist and Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, the answer is simple: make their campaign slogan something like, “Yeah, we took away your reproductive rights, but, hey, we’re letting you keep contraception, and that’s something!”
Ooh, someone finally realized current polling is way off from the actual results at the voting booth.
The #GOP finally caught the car, now they are getting pulled under the tire.
I'm looking forward to the GOP joining the Know-Nothings in the trash bin of history.
"We're letting you keep contraceptives"
- No, they are not.
- Who the fuck do they think they are?
Translation: get over that we're taking away your rights. We'll give you some privilege we can take back whenever we want to in exchange for your votes for long enough for us to take away voting rights and then we won't have to offer you shit
Look, sure the Republicans lied about wanting to ban abortions in the case of rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Sure, they lied about not wanting a national ban. And sure they lied about not wanting to prosecute women. But you can totally trust that they aren't lying this time! Ignore the hand behind their back. They aren't crossing their fingers. They promise!!!
"we're letting you"
Yeah, literal gender swapped Skeletor is whitewashing what Conservative "Justice" Thomas said when they stripped abortion rights away.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/thomas-constitutional-rights-00042256
Sadly this will probably work because people are stupid and forgetful.
They don't need to "win back" women. The conservative voting bloc lost very few votes due to women switching their vote from republican to democrat. It caused a small surge of new women voters.
Trump is currently leading the polls against Biden. I feel like people don't understand this. The Republicans need to do very little to keep their current level of power. What Conway is talking about is EXPANDING their vote advantage.
These articles that make it seem like they're losing are just idiotic. They're winning and Roe didn't make a big enough difference to change that. We all need to grok that fact.
Kellyanne's comment is an embarrassingly dumb take of course, but I don't know if she's wrong in judging voters. I am mentally preparing for the worst this year...because it really does seem like the GOP just cannot underestimate the voting population.
For example, check out the poll citations at the end of this Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/01/biden-trump-new-years-message
The USA Today and Suffolk University survey, condensed by the Guardian, found that Biden had 34% support among Hispanic voters surveyed, down from 65% in 2020, compared with Trump’s 39%. Biden’s support among Black voters had also declined, from 87% to 63%.
Among younger votes under 35, Trump leads Biden 37% to 33%, a spread that four years ago was 24 points in Biden’s favour.
It's dumbfounding that in any poll, any time that Trump leads among voters under 35 and hispanic voters, and has 24 points less Black support. Yes, it's one poll, yes, it's too early to really matter. But Biden is somehow underwater in 538 polling by double digits. And this is following an election that Biden won by around 50,000 total votes.
My point here is not to discourage people from voting or to be nihilistic, or resign themselves to Trump. It's the opposite. We need to get very fired up, because we are in an echo chamber, and the world outside of it seems to have the memory of a goldfish and a similar capacity to recognize fascism. I'm saying this because we are going to need every single vote in November, and we need to start talking to people outside of our bubble sooner rather than later.
Wow. A real vote winner for sure. If the Dems weren't so horribly, utterly useless they would be running this on billboards across the country.
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"Conservative" women are in an abusive relationship. With their minority-hating Party, and probably with their controlling partners as well...
“Let them eat cake”
Conservative Blowhard Says Something Dumb, News at 11.
Kellyanne Spillway, as on point as ever.
Many people are saying she was behind the bowling green massacre. More and more.
I say this from the bottom of my heart….
Fuck off Kelly.
She is the most specialest flavor of stupid.
Okay, so did she actually say that? Because this author is using quotes a lot and I think they don’t understand “air quotes” aren’t actual real quotes.
Is there a video? Audio?
She should try running on that.
Anyone else keep misreading “voters in critical states” as “voters in critical thinking states”
Fool-proof plan. I highly encourage them to spread this message.
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Thats way super thoughtful. Thank you so much.
Well, we all know how delusional they are...
Simple: Don't believe it.
It honestly doesn't matter what they choose to say because nobody will believe them anyway. And not that this will persuade voters in the near future, but maybe they should try writing contraception rights into the constitution. That would at least be a good start.
These people should be real careful before folks start to go 2A on their loved ones in retribution.
Kinda funny coming from someone who got divorced last year because her husband couldn’t stand her, and issued Twitter burns on her and her cohorts on a regular basis.
Even her daughter started up with the burns against her. Read your own family, much less the room.
The Crypt Keeper speaks!
Removing Roe v Wade without a solution to allow abortion in some form is the biggest political blunder since obamacare.