{"id":449,"date":"2022-09-27T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T23:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/?p=449"},"modified":"2023-02-21T23:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:33:13","slug":"kansas-race-verifica-o-que-e-mais-importante-sistema-economico-ou-aborto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/kansas-race-verifica-o-que-e-mais-importante-sistema-economico-ou-aborto\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Race checks what's more important: economic system or abortion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS Metropolis, Kan. \u2013 Republicans redesigned Democratic Representative Sharice Davids' Kansas suburban metropolis environmental district this year to make a third term harder for her to win, including rural areas where former President Donald Trump did so neatly and discarding urban areas that Davids had carried with ease.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the dynamic changed in June when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Kansas voters spoke out in August, overwhelmingly rejecting a ballot measure that would result in further restrictions or a ban on abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The magnitude of that vote left Davids and other Democrats feeling optimistic. That's why she's spending the final stretch of the campaign focused on abortion, attempting to keep the same abortion rights advocates who voted in August energized to get it back in November.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether or not to ask voters, who may also blame Democrats for increased housing and grocery spending, to help Davids in Congress is a fragile task.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think this has more to do with controlling and limiting the rights of Americans,\u201d said undecided voter Tanner Klingzell, a 42-year-old from the suburb of Prairie Village, who says he is fiscally conservative but socially modern. He supports abortion rights and says, \u201cI just don\u2019t feel comfortable voting Republican.\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court's abortion decision has rewritten the script in districts across the country, and all the Davids and Republican challenger Amanda Adkins must win over independents and moderates from the Republican Party to win the congressional district from a swing in any other red state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Davids became the first Native American lesbian in Congress when she rose to power on anti-Trump suburban sentiment in the 2018 election. Her background as a mixed martial arts fighter attracted a national hobby, and Republicans initially tried to link her to \u201cThe Squad\u201d of recent liberal condominium participants. These efforts faltered when she focused on non-divisive considerations, such as street initiatives, prescription drug spending, and excessively fast internet speeds for rural areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adkins, a former corporate executive and chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, is hitting Davids hard on pocket considerations, a tactic Republicans nationally envision to boost their apartment majority again. She has also begun highlighting crime and border security. She held a news convention on these issues on Monday, days after Republican House Chief of Staff Kevin McCarthy unveiled the Republicans\u201c \u201dCommitment to America\u201c agenda, which promises to combat inflation but also to \u201dprotect the lives of unborn babies.\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

They have faced each other before. Davids defeated Adkins in 2020 by 10 percent, but that was before the redistricting after the 2020 census. Although Democrat Joe Biden prevailed in the new district in 2020, his margin would be roughly half of the ten percentage points he garnered in the old district \u2013 and that's likely true for Davids as well. If Adkins's suburban vote percentage is a few points higher this year than in 2020, she could win.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the suburb of Overland Park, Andrea Calvo, an account manager for a freight company working 33 to 12 months, expects Republicans to emerge somewhat more desirable from the November elections because, in her opinion, \u201cthey have confirmed they are capable of handling the more favorable economic climate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While Calvo, a Republican, doesn't see herself as an average, she voted in August in favor of the proposed anti-abortion amendment to the Kansas Charter. She sees Adkins' assistance as "basically a problem," however, it's not a deal-breaker now.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c"It's all about the economic climate at the end of the day for me," she noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both campaigns, parties, and political corporations are currently aiming to spend approximately US$$ 8 million on television advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n

Davids' ads attack Adkins for his long affiliation with former Republican Governor Sam Brownback, whose nationally infamous 2012-13 tax cut experiment was undertaken through large and persistent state funding deficits. Davids launched an ad Saturday attacking Adkins over abortion that follows several correspondences from Kansas Democratic birthday parties, including to Republicans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Davids and his supporters portray Adkins as an extremist for supporting the proposed amendment that voters rejected in August. It could have eliminated abortion protections from the state constitution, which would have allowed the state legislature, dominated by abortion opponents, to largely prevent or prohibit abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Davids's striking public opposition to Kansas's anti-abortion measure contrasts sharply with three years of Democratic candidates gently pushing their way to abortion rights in most areas of the state. Abortion has been a dominant concern in Kansas politics, considering the fact that the 1991 anti-abortion "summer of mercy" protest targeted Dr. George Tiller's health unit in Wichita. Tiller became one of the few doctors commonly used to perform late-pregnancy abortions and was killed in 2009 by an anti-abortion fanatic. Anti-abortion groups have been effective forces in state politics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even with the new, more Republican trends in the third district, 67.51% of its voters are hostile to Kansas' anti-abortion measure in the August abortion referendum.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were very engaged and sent a strong message that we don\u2019t want politicians making our choices for us anymore,\u201d Davids noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adkins describes herself as a Catholic who \u201chas always been a professional\u201d and \u201ccommitted to preserving life at all stages.\u201d However, Adkins said she respects the August vote and opposes federal abortion laws, stating that the issue should still be decided at the state level.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt won\u2019t be a federal issue, and yet Sharice Davids is focusing on it as a federal situation,\u201d Adkins noted after another suburban meeting. Davids voted last year for a Democratic measure to guarantee abortion rights in the U.S. and overturn state restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adkins was not more specific about how far she thinks abortion law still has to go in Kansas, which bans most abortions at the twenty-second week; however, she noted on Monday that she would prefer any new, incremental state measures that could reduce the number of abortions. .<\/span><\/p>\n

In the new rural components of the Third District, Democrats say that the volunteers overseeing abortion are energized. However, Republican Representative Samantha Poetter Parshall stated that Davids is \u201cextraordinarily difficult to sell,\u201d especially to conservative farmers. Even Democrats tend to take more conservative positions on considerations similar to gun rights, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c"Also, taxes \u2013 people are extraordinarily upset about how excessive their taxes are right now," she noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, about eighty-five percent of the district's voters reside in the suburbs, where centrist and conservative Republicans have been fighting for many years, and voters have been electing more Democrats in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former U.S. Representative Kevin Yoder, the four-term Republican Party incumbent ousted by Davids in 2018, praised Adkins as a candidate but pointed to the dominance of those suburbs in the district as the reason the race remains challenging for the Republican Party. .<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c"Still, it's a Biden district," he noted.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KANSAS metr\u00f3pole, Kan. – Os republicanos redesenharam a metr\u00f3pole suburbana do Kansas da representante democrata Sharice Davids, distrito ambiental do Kansas este ano para tornar um terceiro mandato mais dif\u00edcil para ela ganhar, incluindo \u00e1reas rurais onde o ex-presidente Donald Trump fez ordenadamente e descartando \u00e1reas urbanas que Davids havia carregado com facilidade. mas a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-economia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticias-gerais.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}