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When Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida Wednesday to stand in solidarity with residents as the state's six-week abortion went into effect, she was crystal clear about who bore responsibility for it: Donald Trump.
"At the stroke of midnight, another Trump abortion ban went into effect here in Florida," Harris told a crowd of some 200 supporters in Jacksonville, squarely laying the blame on Democrats' rival candidate for the White House. "As of this morning, 4 million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night."
Speaking at a convention center in a historically Black neighborhood, Harris declared Floridians' new reality a "health care crisis" and said the nation was witnessing a "full-on assault, state by state, on reproductive freedom."
"And understand who is to blame. Former President Donald Trump did this," she said, echoing the Biden-Harris campaign's signature "Trump did this" refrain.
The vice president never once mentioned Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the bill into law last year, but she name-checked Trump—who routinely brags about "terminating" Roe v. Wade—more than 20 times. Ultimately, Trump is the person who set the chaos sweeping the country in motion.
