Watch What Happened After MAGA Candidate Says Abortion Is Not a Factor in This Race

New York GOP candidate Alison Esposito may want to think twice before making any decisions Journalists with him as he knocks on doors:

In a recent report published by NBC NewsMAGA extremist Alison Esposito is trying to claim that abortion “isn’t even a factor” in the race for New York’s Eighteenth Congressional District — but her first door knock with the reporter proves she’s completely out of touch with Hudson Valley voters. (…)

Upper East Side Alison once again fails to understand the priorities of Hudson Valley voters and try and fail To hide his dodgy anti-choice record.

DCCC Spokesperson Ellie Dougherty: “All it took was one knock on a door for Upper East Side Alison to realize she had no idea what voters in New York’s 18th Congressional District cared about.”

As Chris Hayes and his guests Michelle Goldberg and Jess McIntosh discuss in the episode above, Republicans hope to make this election about the economy and immigration, ignoring “abortion rights at their own peril.”

HAYES: There’s a struggle, sort of a proxy war for the campaign, about issue salience, and I think in part because abortion has decreased in the coverage a little bit, and I think that’s happened in 2022 when everybody’s in the race. It’s like this is an inflation election and people really didn’t see it coming.

GOLDBERG: Right, I think there was a poll recently that showed abortion was outpacing immigration, in at least one poll the economy was the most important issue and abortion was second.

Look, I don’t want to pin our hopes on the kind of voting mistake you made. This wasn’t even a poll error; It wasn’t even an error assumption of conventional thinking in 2022; Everyone expected a red wave, and the intensity with which Democratic voters, especially Democratic women, voiced their anger toward Dobbs surprised many people.

This could happen again. We definitely don’t want to rely on that. I also think that in the structure of our discourse, the things that women care about don’t get the same amount of attention, right?

HAYES: I totally agree.

GOLDBERG: Why are these young men so alienated? And this is an important issue. But the white-hot anger of many women doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

MCINTOSH: I mean, you’ve been advocating reproductive freedom for as long as I’ve been working for candidates who support it. At this point, we have become very, very used to the conventional wisdom that downplays the importance of this issue.

HAYES: Correct.

MCINTOSH: We literally haven’t had a cycle where that hasn’t happened. I don’t know how many times voters are going to have to stand up and say, “No, no, we really care about our own bodily autonomy, which is a crazy thing to say,” before people realize that this is actually pretty important. It’s a motivating topic for people.

The idea that we have to choose between abortion or the economy as the issue that motivates us shows that the people doing these polls have never actually thought about this issue for themselves. The decision about when and whether to have children is the most important financial decision most Americans will ever make, and if you’ve given it some thought, you’ve probably considered the financial implications of what that child would mean to you. your family. There is no daylight between reproductive freedom and a good economy. None.

We’ll soon find out whether the pollsters are wrong again.