Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about Florida's new 6-week abortion ban at the Prime Osborn Convention Center on May 1, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida.
When Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida Wednesday to stand in solidarity with residents as the state's six-week abortion went into effect, she was crystal clear about who bore responsibility for it: Donald Trump.
"At the stroke of midnight, another Trump abortion ban went into effect here in Florida," Harris told a crowd of some 200 supporters in Jacksonville, squarely laying the blame on Democrats' rival candidate for the White House. "As of this morning, 4 million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night."
Speaking at a convention center in a historically Black neighborhood, Harris declared Floridians' new reality a "health care crisis" and said the nation was witnessing a "full-on assault, state by state, on reproductive freedom."
"And understand who is to blame. Former President Donald Trump did this," she said, echoing the Biden-Harris campaign's signature "Trump did this" refrain.
The vice president never once mentioned Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the bill into law last year, but she name-checked Trump—who routinely brags about "terminating" Roe v. Wade—more than 20 times. Ultimately, Trump is the person who set the chaos sweeping the country in motion.
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