‘We need to read the room’: GOP divided on abortion as Democrats unite for 2024

Democrats center abortion rights in early stages of presidential campaign while Republicans waver over unpopular position

Hours after Joe Biden announced his re-election campaign on Tuesday, his vice-president and 2024 running mate, Kamala Harris, delivered a fiery call to action for voters alarmed by the loss of constitutional protections for abortion.

This is a moment for us to stand and fight," she said to a packed auditorium at Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington and her alma mater. To the extremist so-called leaders" rolling back access to reproductive rights, Harris warned: Don't get in our way because if you do, we're going to stand up, we're going to organize and we're going to speak up."