Voters turned out to protect reproductive rights, and voted for Democrats while they were at it Elections2022
, who was defending a vulnerable Democratic seat. And in a surprise even to officials like McMorrow, they delivered Democrats not only the state senate, but the state house as well.
“I did not expect that we would get a trifecta,” says McMorrow. “I don’t think any polling captured how angry and energized people still were.” State rep. Darrin Camilleri, a Democrat who won a seat in the state senate Tuesday night, says that after knocking on 130,000 doors, he thinks abortion was the deciding factor in turning Michigan deep blue. “It drove turnout in ways that we did not expect,” he says.
What happened in Michigan was just the most visible example of a phenomenon that reverberated across the country since the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn half a century of abortion rights. Voters who supported reproductive freedom turned out for Democrats in the midterms, blunting what was widely expected to be a Republican wave. Abortion came in a close second to inflation as voters’ most important issue, according towith 76% of Democrats listing abortion as their top concern.
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