Vice President Kamala Harris is leading Democrats’ efforts to elevate abortion access as the defining issue of the mid-term cycle, hoping to regain her footing after personal efforts to thwart illegal immigration and bolster voting rights stumbled.
For Ms. Harris, the abortion issue offers what should be a safe foothold as her party eyes her as a fall-back option if President Biden does not run in 2024.
Ms. Harris on Tuesday sat next to President Biden at the second meeting of a task force forged to address the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and the national right to abortion.