Democrats rally support for Kamala Harris, reproductive freedom in Jacksonville

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'Something different is in the air ... and it's not just the stench of Donald Trump.'

National and state Democratic leaders rallied the faithful on Jacksonville’s Eastside Wednesday, making the emphatic case that abortion is on the ballot in more ways than one.

Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, said that “something different is in the air” in Florida, “and it’s not just the stench of Donald Trump.

He hit the abortion issue, saying Trump and his “extreme MAGA allies” like Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis want a total abortion ban to “silence our daughters and our mothers” and “turn back the clock.”

The “MVP” or “Madame Vice President” Kamala Harris is the only alternative, the South Carolina Democrat claimed.

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a former DNC chair from South Florida, made similar points, telling the media “don’t sleep on Florida” as the state is “going to surprise a lot of people” whether the Republicans don’t spend money or “panic” and invest resources.

“This election is existential to our way of life and our democracy,” the Congresswoman claimed, adding that Florida’s Amendment 4 would also help to restore rights “upended” by Republican leadership.

She believes Duval County, which has a Democratic Mayor, will turn out for Harris like they did Joe Biden in 2020.

Nikki Fried, chair of the Florida Democratic Party, noted that the former President’s Supreme Court appointments were intended to “overturn Roe V. Wade.”

“He celebrated it. He said ‘Isn’t this a beautiful thing,'” Fried said, blaming the GOP nominee for Florida’s six-week abortion ban.

Fried also predicted that Harris would carry Florida.

Sen. Tracie Davis, a self-styled “Democrat through and through” who represents Jacksonville, made similar points about “dangerous and cruel” abortion bans across the country.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


4 comments

  • Alexa is Biased

    September 4, 2024 at 1:41 pm

    Wasserman-Schultz will never advance out of District #25. She is safe there with her highly democratic retirees and the New York infiltrators that ran from bad politics and taxes yet haven’t learned their lesson.

    • MH/Duuuval

      September 4, 2024 at 8:33 pm

      Luna is in trouble, too.

  • Phil Morton

    September 4, 2024 at 3:41 pm

    Great rally, even in the rain. Well done everyone!

  • ELVIS

    September 5, 2024 at 8:50 pm

    Good evening Sage Patriots & Dook 4 Brains Leftys,
    JUST TO BRING YOU UP TO SPEED:
    We at The EPA , (Elvis Pitts American) POLY-SCI DIVISION have conducted a battery of testing on Dook 4 Brains Leftys and here are the results.
    THE RESULTS:
    After administrating truth serum on them we came up with pretty much the same results as to their voting preferances.
    What 77.23% stated is they honestly will vote Trump to get the economey, forigian affairs, and immigration back under control.
    HOWEVER:
    Most of them are sexual perves and MUST pretend to be voting Harris.
    WHY YOU MAY ASK?
    Because their many perve & homertestical sex partners will cut them off if they find out they voted Trump.
    IN CLOSING:
    That explaines the “Un-Natural” high polling showing that HARRIS is competitave with Trump.
    IN CLOSING:
    Everyone is free, free, free at last to “RELAX THEIR SPHINCTERS” secure in the fact Trump will win the 2024 election and DeSantis will win the 2028 POTUS election.
    Thank you Sage Patriots & Dook 4 Brains Leftys, ELVIS [FKA EARL]

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