Polls show voters care more about the economy than abortion. Democrats in the Rust Belt state argue the two can’t be separated.
— Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has an answer for Democrats at odds over whether to emphasize abortion rights or the economy in the campaign’s final days: the two issues are one and the same.
Michigan GOP gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon has downplayed the effects of restrictive abortion laws and distanced herself from the state's draconian 1931 abortion law.
But Michigan’s candidates are testing a broader message aimed at employers and where they can best recruit and invest. added that protecting abortion rights will help stop the “brain drain” that has long plagued the state — graduates of Michigan’s top-tier colleges leaving for better prospects elsewhere. It’s a message Whitmer has pushed since at least this spring, when POLITICO obtained a draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court was poised to overturnBut Whitmer’s Republican challenger,
Meanwhile, anti-abortion groups that are investing heavily in electing Dixon and defeating the abortion-rights ballot measure predict these hard-nosed economic pitches from Democrats will offend voters and swing the results their way. “It’s a bag of lit dynamite for restaurant owners to speak up on, but I think it’s absolutely essential to recognize that this is an economic crisis in the making and the implications will be staggering if and when those rights are gone,” he said.
While companies that employ thousands of workers have spoken out against new restrictions in more than a dozen states, they argue, those companies have yet to take action.
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