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Posted: 2024-04-23T09:00:12Z | Updated: 2024-04-23T09:00:12Z

Florida may no longer be a lost cause for Joe Biden and Democrats in 2024.

After losing the once-perennial swing state to Donald Trump in 2020, Bidens campaign seems encouraged by this months Florida Supreme Court ruling that upheld a six-week abortion ban while also giving voters the chance to effectively decide whether to undo the measure in November.

The last time there was an abortion referendum on the ballot in 2012, President Obama won the state, Michael Tyler, communications director for the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign, told reporters Monday. So with our enormous financial advantage, the Biden-Harris campaign can afford to invest in many paths to victory, and that includes Florida.

The campaigns remarks previewed its thinking ahead of a speech the president is giving Tuesday in Tampa on reproductive rights. (Biden has shied away from using the term abortion as president, instead cloaking an issue thats central to his reelection campaign in the language of reproductive freedom.)

The entire point of tomorrows trip is for the president to forcefully advocate for reproductive freedom and call out Donald Trumps abortion bans, as hes been doing since Roe was overturned, Tyler said.