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“It really pisses me off,” Luster said of the court’s two decisions on the same issue. “These actions are racist at their core.”
David Axelrod, a former senior strategist for President Barack Obama, expects the statements to “motivate some, especially young people.”
Pete Giangreco, a Democratic strategist who has worked on nine presidential campaigns, says the Democratic base is probably the most motivated.
“Just another block on the fire of book burning, abortion ban, don’t-say-gay fire that is consuming everything about the Republican Party,” he said. “Center-right moderates have nowhere to go but Joe Biden.”
Aaron Del Mar, a Republican State Central Committee member who is also an Asian-Pacific Islander, says ending affirmative action is not the same as ending Roe against Wade.
“Many suburban white women who would have voted Republican in the past were outraged by the Dobbs rule because they felt it infringed on their right to choose and control their own bodies,” he said. “In the affirmative action cases, it’s less personal — and even if they wouldn’t admit it, it gives their own children more opportunities.”
Becky Carroll, a Democratic political consultant, called the latest statements “a wake-up call to the idea that elections matter because presidents and senators determine who gets appointed to federal benches. That is why we have the verdict today.”
And Brian Stryker, a Democratic pollster at Impact Research, says: “Dobbs in 2024 it will be Dobbs of 2022. People are still 11 out of 10 angry for a good reason, so it will be hard to replace.
A version of this initially appeared in the June 30 edition of Illinois Playbook. Sign up here for the newsletter.
