Harris and Biden both blame Trump on abortion. How they do it is very different.
The president and the vice president each gave a speech on abortion rights in Florida in the last eight days. They brought a contrast in style and delivery.
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris had the same basic message about Florida’s six-week abortion ban that started Wednesday: It’s Donald Trump’s fault.
But that’s where the similarities between the two ended when it came to stumping on abortion in the adopted home state of their Republican rival.
During his speech in Tampa last week, Biden used the word “abortion” twice. Harris used it 15 times on Wednesday in Jacksonville, sometimes coupled with the “Trump abortion bans” phrase she coined as she crisscrossed the country speaking out about the issue.
Biden, before turning to abortion rights, detoured into other topics important to Floridians, including Medicare and Social Security, and then talked about how he wanted to make community college free. Harris, meanwhile, devoted the entirety of her speech in Florida to abortion.