VP Kamala Harris rallies Democrats, affirms support for abortion rights during Austin visit
AUSTIN — One month before the midterm elections, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris came to Republican Texas, aiming to buck up a state party that hasn't seen a statewide victory in a generation and one still facing headwinds caused by economic uncertainty and rampant unchecked migration across its southern border.
Still, Harris pushed an optimistic message that highlighted the national party's slogan of "Democrats deliver" and urged Texas Democrats at their annual "JJ Reception in Austin" to embrace Biden administration successes on a range of legislative issues ranging from a deal aimed at lowering prescription drugs prices, spending on infrastructure renewal projects and to COVID relief.
"Democrats stood on the floor and delivered relief to the American people," Harris told attendees at the JJ Reception, named for the late President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. "People are suffering."
The first woman ever elected on a national ticket also used her two stops in Austin to champion efforts to restore the reproductive freedoms that were struck down when the Supreme Court on June 24 overturned the 1973 landmark case, Roe v. Wade that had affirmed the right to abortion.
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