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Call it the Democrats’ disconnect.

In the 2024 general elections alone, Democrats spent more than half a billion dollars on TV ads focused on abortion. The result, as we know, was epic failure for the Harris-Walz campaign and majorities for the GOP in the U.S. House and Senate. In Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota, they took their first bruising defeats on abortion ballot initiatives since Dobbs.

Now, a key Democratic PAC is putting $10 million into pivoting to talk about the economy. Via Axios:

A non-profit closely aligned with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is preparing its first major investment in the 2026 election with a campaign aimed at dinging Republicans on the economy.

Abortion was a subpoint in Axios’ report…

…but conservative media didn’t miss the significance:

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These Democrats didn’t get the memo

Virginia:

A bit further down I-95, Democrats in Virginia’s capital had no plans to pivot. As a top order of business for the legislative session, which is only about six weeks long (made even shorter by snowy weather and a “water crisis”), the Democrat-controlled House of Delegates voted for an amendment to the state constitution to expand abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. Virginia law currently limits abortion at 27 weeks, making some exceptions for late-term abortions in the third trimester. The amendment would wipe them out were it to become part of the constitution. It would also eliminate parental consent requirements.

Virginia Democrats’ obsession with abortion has gone on for years, even as Glenn Youngkin defeated another candidate – Terry McAuliffe – who gambled on an in-your-face, pro-abortion message in the 2021 race for governor.

As a reminder, here is what occurred when Delegate Kathy Tran introduced a bill to expand abortion on demand “all the way up to 40 weeks”:

For Emily Davis, SBA’s vice president of communications, it’s especially personal this year:

I’m currently in my eighth month of pregnancy. I’ve been seeing my baby’s face and unique movements on 3D/4D ultrasound for months now. She’s a living human being who wakes me up with her early morning kicks and who moves with approval when I consume our morning breakfast of apple juice and avocado toast. But sadly, many of the leaders in my own state don’t recognize her life as worthy of protecting.

⁕ Worth noting: The amendment must pass the General Assembly twice – once now and again after the November elections – before it can go on the ballot (unfortunately, Governor Youngkin can’t veto such a measure). It has yet to pass the Democrat-controlled Senate a first time, though that could happen quickly. Democrats’ margins in both chambers are narrow, and every seat in the House is up for election this year.

In a short session with very real, pressing problems unfolding right in Richmond, time would seem to be precious. Yet the Democrats were in a particular hurry to push their abortion amendment through. Asked for a 30-minute recess to review the proposal delegates were supposed to vote on, the Democratic committee chair replied, “I will grant you five minutes – I know you to be a quick reader.”

Although the fix was in, it did not go over without protest. Watch Delegate Nick Freitas’ powerful speech on the House floor in which he described the barbaric process of dismembering a living baby in the womb well after that child can feel pain:

We couldn’t help but be reminded of the English abolitionist William Wilberforce, speaking of the inhumanity of the slave trade: “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”

But even this didn’t move Virginia Assembly Democrats. The only remedy is to vote them out of office.

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New Jersey:

If there is anything New Jerseyans agree on, it’s that the Garden State needs… more abortions? Gov. Phil Murphy appears to think so.

Murphy joins ignominious ranks that include Washington state’s Gov. Jay Inslee, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and others spending hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars to stock up on drugs to kill unborn children. At the same time, New Jersey’s attorney general has been colluding with Planned Parenthood to demonize pregnancy centers, which provided more than $3.6 million worth of free services and material support – including $2.2 million in medical care – to New Jersey women, children and families in 2022.

What it means is that not only children in the womb but countless women will be feeling more pain – as even legacy media admit:

In a recent case in Texas, a healthy young woman wound up hemorrhaging in the ER after taking abortion drugs shipped to her by an abortionist in New York. Unlike Democrats leading blue states, Texas AG Ken Paxton doesn’t protect abortion-drug peddlers who harm women – he takes them to court.

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California:

Less than 24 hours after Kamala Harris’ concession speech, Gov. Gavin Newsom called the legislature into an “emergency” special session to ready for lawfare against pro-life Trump administration actions. In a particularly Orwellian turn, Newsom’s executive proclamation described not forcing Americans to partake in abortion as part of an “assault on reproductive freedom.”

Newsom’s enforcer is activist Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is known for his fishing expeditions against pregnancy centers and trying to shut down proven and safe Abortion Pill Reversal for women looking for a last chance to save their babies. Bonta’s wife chairs the California State Assembly’s health committee and told NPR of legislators’ intent to “Trump-proof our health system” by expanding taxpayer-funded abortion.

As peaceful pro-life advocates jailed by the Biden DOJ appeal directly to President Trump, it’s worth noting that California has its own version of the FACE Act, and Newsom signed an update last year that increases penalties from misdemeanors to felonies. (That enforcement also falls to – you guessed it – Rob Bonta.)

Now as California literally burns, one wonders if Newsom wishes he’d spent more time paying attention to the reservoirs than paying for pro-abortion billboards in other states or criticizing their pro-life laws.

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Arizona:

During the presidential election, Tim Walz was exposed for burying data reporting on babies who survive abortions after eight babies were born alive and died in Minnesota on his watch. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs apparently saw this as an example to emulate. Not satisfied with enshrining abortion up to the very end of pregnancy in Arizona’s constitution (leadership, or the absence thereof, truly matters), Hobbs railed against transparency in a State of the State address that used the word abortion several times:

I have been steadfast in calling for the end of the abortion reporting law that requires government surveillance of pregnant women –

Let us stop you right there, Governor. Arizona produces some of the best quality abortion data reporting in the country. Like other states, their statistics do not include personally identifying information. Those reports show that, under Katie Hobbs, every bad indicator is going up. No wonder she wants to hide them.

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North Carolina:

Western North Carolinians displaced by Hurricane Helene were set to lose their temporary housing this week, drawing fury from a U.S. senator. Yet somehow, Gov. Josh Stein still found time to prioritize an executive order shielding abortionists who flout the laws of other states. Following Dobbs, many Democrat-led states passed laws encouraging abortion tourism and explicitly granting legal and professional immunity to abortionists who ship drugs to states where they aren’t licensed to practice medicine.

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Which Way, Dems?

Democrats must decide their future. The “Shout Your Abortion” approach definitely factored into their losses among Latino and Catholic voters, as well as alienating undecided young women, and is spurring a growing list of ex-Democrats. “Roe-vember” was a bust and any sign of a sustained advantage from Dobbs has evaporated. As the well-known adage states, insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting different results.