This was the answer given by the American President, when he was asked in an interview he gave to the television network MSNBC, what he would do if the Republicans secured control of Congress in the mid-term elections on November 8.
Democratic US President Joe Biden vowed Friday to use his veto power to protect abortion rights if Republicans win control of Congress in the Nov. 8 midterm elections and advance bills to ban it nationally. scale.
Asked during an interview on MSNBC what he would do if Republicans were to pass bills to that effect if, as expected, they take control of the House, Mr. Biden replied that he would “veto everything they do.” .
The state’s Democratic leader sought this week to mobilize his party’s base by promising to sign into law a nationwide abortion right if his party wins next month’s election.
But polls still indicate his party is on course to lose control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate in less than twenty days.
President Biden has been trying to bring women’s issues to the fore lately, as abortion rights have been dealt a blow by the Supreme Court’s decision nearly four months ago to overturn the historic Roe v. Wade ruling that protected it.
If Democrats elect more senators and retain control of the House, Mr. Biden has promised to sign a law that would guarantee every American woman’s right to an abortion nationwide.
Democrats, who generally favor abortion rights, hold a slim majority in the outgoing House and control the outgoing Senate thanks to the vice president’s vote. Kamala Harris can break the deadlock in cases of a tie (the two parties have fifty seats each).
To outlaw abortion, Republicans, who generally oppose the right, would need to pass bills, but none would become law unless the president signed it.
“I will veto” any such text, the White House occupant insisted.
However, American voters are mainly concerned about inflation and the financial difficulties that many of them are experiencing, according to a rolling poll by the Ipsos institute on behalf of the Reuters news agency. Just 8% of the sample said that abortion rights nationally would most influence how they vote in November, while 27% cited inflation in the institute’s recent rolling survey from Sept. 27 to Oct. 3.
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