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In a high-stakes election season, Michigan’s role as a battleground state has never been more evident than it is right now. Last week, media mogul Oprah Winfrey and Vice President Kamala Harris met for a sit-down conversation on the nation’s future, reinforcing Michigan’s importance in this election. The focus sharpened even more this weekend as U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, U.S. Representative Haley Stevens, and Oakland County Executive David Coulter took center stage in Madison Heights. Joined by a star-studded cast from the hit TV series Scandal, they energized Democratic supporters and volunteers at the kickoff of the Michigan Team Harris-Walz’s “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom” bus tour, emphasizing the intense efforts to win over Michigan voters. Michigan will continue to be a focal point leading up to Election Day on November 5.
The “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom” bus tour is traveling across the country this fall, making stops in at least 50 states, especially hitting battleground states, reaching out to communities supporting the Democratic and Republican parties. The tour aims to highlight the differences between Vice President Harris and Governor Walz, who support maintaining the protections of Roe v. Wade through congressional action, and Donald Trump and JD Vance, who are pushing for Project 2025, which seeks to ban abortions across the country, restrict access to birth control, and create barriers to reproductive healthcare.
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Kerry Washington expressed being on the brink of something historic and extraordinary by electing Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz or simply waking up to a nightmare of having a president we’ve had before, who is coming for our rights.
“When it comes to reproductive rights—we have one candidate who has consistently attacked reproductive rights in the courts, who has jeopardized access to IVF, who has made it terrifyingly difficult for women to get life-saving medical treatment, who has increased the Black mortality crisis for Black women, who has again and again promised to make things worse and worse for us,” Washington said.
Tony Goldwyn emphasized having another set of candidates who have defended reproductive rights for decades and stood up for bodily autonomy.
“I am standing here today as an American man who is outraged by the fact that one-third of American women of reproductive age live under a Trump abortion ban,” Goldwyn said.
“Women are having to travel hundreds of miles to get health care in this country, to get the health care that they need. Doctors are being threatened with jail time for simply providing the care that they were trained to provide.”
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow emphasized the importance of winning this election and that everyone understands it’s fundamentally about freedom. Donald Trump’s discussion about “the debate between the federal government and the state government” is not what the American people want.
“We did put [reproductive rights] in our [state] Constitution, and what Donald Trump and the Republicans will do is rip it out of our Constitution… We know how to do it, Michigan. We know how to win. We’re going to work hard and we’re going to get it done, and we’re going to make sure that Kamala Harris is the next president of the United States,” Stabenow said.
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