Democrats have already pushed forward with attack ads on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s views on abortion.
chose the previously unknown conservative to be the next speaker, with Democrats already pushing forward with attack ads on Johnson’s record on the issue.
In Jan. 2022, the congressman from Louisiana said “a child in the womb” is a “unique human being with unique DNA” from the moment of conception and he called for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade long before the .
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe, Democrats have run on Republicans’ opposition to abortion rights, a strategy that helped stave off what had been predicted as a red wave in the 2022 midterm elections.
Ahead of Wednesday’s speakership vote, House Judiciary Democrats posted a video on X of Johnson saying “Roe v Wade gave constitutional cover to the elected killing of unborn children in America, period. You think about the implications of that on the economy. We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of social security and medicare and medicaid and all the rest. If we had all those able bodied workers in the economy, we wouldn’t be going upside down and toppling over like this.
