Team Biden just landed their campaign team in Florida in the last week or so. "Make no mistake: Florida is not an easy state to win, but it is a winnable one for President Biden," national campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez said.
Today, the state got even more winnable. The Florida Supreme Court handed down, for Republicans' political fortunes, the worst possible pair of decisions: They allowed Ron DeSantis's draconian six-week ban on abortion to take effect in 30 days — and they allowed the referendum guaranteeing the right to abortion onto the November ballot.
Which means that over the next six months or so, Floridians will be getting so outraged by the ban and its infringement on their lives that they'll storm the polling places in a rage in the fall. People do get annoyed when their rights are taken away.
(P.S. The court also allowed a ballot measure to approve recreational marijuana. It's going to be a stampede, kids! Last one in the voting booth is a rotten egg!)
If we cats were Republicans — not crazed MAGAts, but a relatively sane version of what the Grand Old Party used to be — we would be miserable at how the forces are aligning against us. Since Dobbs, Democrats just keep winning, and now the rabid anti-choicers have effectively put Florida, which has been trending redder and redder, into play. And even worse, Republicans have no money to push back in one of the country's most expensive media markets. Benedict Donald is raiding their coffers for his legal bills — and nobody is stopping him.
Speaking of Trump, will he speak out about the Court's decisions? Maybe not. He's probably too busy watching his wildly overvalued media company's stock price dive by 40 percent. We cats PURR.
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