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The campaign is also confident that President Biden can win Florida on more than abortion.

President Joe Biden is making a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida, on April 23 and is expected to further emphasize how important he sees it to protect abortion and other related matters.

“We’ll be speaking to one of these most fundamental rights: reproductive freedom, from contraception and abortion to IVF,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said to members of the press.

The President arrives in Tampa a week before Florida’s ban on abortion after six weeks of gestation goes into effect and as its voters decide on a proposed constitutional amendment that would protect abortion as a right. The president is also expected to speak on issues in several other battleground states across the county, keeping matters of “reproductive rights” as a top priority of the campaign.

“When Florida’s ban takes effect, it will severely restrict reproductive health care access across the entire Southeastern United States, including neighboring battlegrounds of Georgia and North Carolina—two states with abortion bans on the books thanks to Donald Trump,” the Biden campaign said in a statement, referring to the former president. “Many women in the Southeast desperately in need of care will have to drive for a day or more to reach the closest clinic, further straining resources for providers that are already struggling to serve women coming from states with bans.”

There’s one person to blame, according to the Biden campaign, and that is President Trump.

“Trump will do everything he can to ban abortion nationwide,” Mr. Tyler said. “Whenever Trump has had power, he’s used to take away rights from women.”

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President Trump has said on numerous occasions recently that he does not support a nationwide ban on abortion, but that he wants to give the power to states to decide. The Biden campaign continues to accuse him of trying “to dodge or double talk on this issue.”

Campaign officials continue to call out and criticize President Trump for “bragging” about having Roe v. Wade overturned by the Dobbs decision during his term, and Mr. Tyler credited that decision to “Trump’s Supreme Court Justices.”

They also denounce his view of leaving states to decide on whether or how much to restrict abortion, pointing to examples like Florida as well as other battleground states like Arizona and Wisconsin—both of which, they point out, have pro-life legislation going back to the 1800s—that make no exception for rape or incest, stating that “one in three women are living under the dangerous abortion bans.”

“President Biden used his executive authority to marshal a whole-of-government response working to defend medication, abortion, and emergency care, to expand access to contraception, [and] protect the privacy of women and doctors.“ Mr. Tyler said.

Winning Florida

Florida has tilted more and more Republican over the course of President Biden’s first term. Gov. Ron DeSantis won re-election by a significantly higher margin than his first term and flipped Miami-Dade County in the process. Florida’s primary election also saw several Democrat-controlled local offices, like county commissions, mayorships, and city council seats, turned over to Republicans.

However, the Biden campaign insists that Florida is winnable without focusing on abortion alone.

Mr. Tyler said “extreme MAGA republicans,” referring to President Trump’s slogan Make America Great Again, “made Florida the blueprint for their toxic and losing agenda.”

“Republicans in the state have attacked Social Security,” he said. “They’ve made it easier for criminals to carry guns. They’ve banned books, re-written history that said black people benefited from slavery, and attacked our most vulnerable communities.”

Meanwhile, he said, President Biden’s agenda “resonates with Florida.”

“It cannot be overstated how unpopular the MAGA Republican agenda is in the state of Florida,” he said. “We’ve seen it play out for years at this point. And so this campaign’s posture reflects the seriousness with which we’re taking Florida.”