Scarborough: Fla. Supreme Court Sticking Trump with DeSantis’ 6-Week Abortion Ban Means Biden Might Win Florida

SCARBOROUGH: “Well, in the short run, bad news, obviously, for women’s health, for women’s reproductive rights, for women’s choice. In the long run, Molly, and you brought it up during the break. Both items by the Supreme Court were bad news for Donald Trump yesterday, because first thing the court did was stick Trump with Ron DeSantis’ six week abortion ban, will be extraordinarily unpopular. And then the second thing is making the election in ’24 a referendum on a six-week abortion ban. That’s just bad for Donald Trump and Republican candidates up and down the ballot. Does that mean that Biden is going to win Florida? Still a long shot, but I’ll tell you what, if I’m a Florida Republican, I hate this being on the ballot.”
Jong-Fast: “Right. I mean, they worked hard to keep this off the ballot, and the Democratic state party there worked really hard to keep it on the ballot, almost a million signatures and it went through the court a bunch of times. I think what’s interesting is it tends to be, when abortion is on the ballot, or any — you know, it tends to be, when abortion is on the ballot, it wins, people even in red states like Ohio. What I think is interesting about Florida, we see how much this Republican Party has moved even on abortion. Remember, they started with these six-week heartbeat bills — ‘heartbeat,’ right? — and now they really have moved on to embryonic personhood, right? So in states like Alabama, they’re going after IVF, so we can really even see the progression of, if you give these people a little bit, they are not satisfied, they are not satiated. So I do actually think this is really something that Democrats can run on.”