Abortion is a critical, if not the most important, issue for many voters – especially women, according to polls – ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November. Since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee in August 2024,

Kamala Harris raised over $1 billion—much of which was spent on advertising—but internal polling showed that she still struggled to convince swing-state voters that Donald Trump had been a bad president.

Donald Trump won a resounding victory over Kamala Harris on Tuesday, and unlike in 2016, this one wasn’t a shock. What was stunning was the depth of his gains all over the electoral map. Trump’s huge improvements relative to 2020 raised a host of difficult questions for Democrats,