Democratic Voters Are Not Thinking About Abortion

NOTUS: “These are the most recent examples of how abortion has receded as an issue in 2026 compared to the 2022 and 2024 elections, when it was one of Democrats’ top electoral focuses. In fact, more than three times as many abortion-related ads ran from January to mid-July 2024 — with candidates and organizations spending nearly double on them — as did in the same period of 2026.”

“But Democrats’ focus on abortion rights didn’t deliver wins for the party in 2024 the way it did in 2022. Democrats effectively prevented a red wave in the 2022 midterms by heavily messaging against the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that protected abortion access.”