SBA Pro-Life America says messages about Roy Cooper’s abortion record shifted voters toward Republican Michael Whatley.
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As the battle for a U.S. Senate seat rages on and is set to come to a high pitch during the upcoming midterm elections, a new pro-life study is showing that the Democratic candidate’s support of pro-abortion issues is shifting support toward his Republican nemesis, according to a story by Fox News.
Commissioned by the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the new study found that messages highlighting North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate and former Gov. Roy Cooper’s abortion record tilted support toward Republican candidate Michael Whatley among voters in the state. The message focused on federal abortion legislation producing the largest movement.
According to the pro-life group, the message has reached more than 770,000 homes across North Carolina as it mobilizes a new voter-contact strategy targeting what is expected to be one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races. In this political battleground, Republicans are trying to hold on to their majority in the Upper Chamber and fill the seat currently held by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.
“When it comes to the life issue, the issue that works best in North Carolina for the Senate race is that Gov. Cooper vetoed the 12-week limit, which is wildly popular in North Carolina and across the country, to stop abortion at the first trimester. He vetoed it and then his veto was overridden. It was a very unpopular move that really moves voters,” SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told Fox News Digital.
“The other is that when he vetoed a bill that would give appropriate healthcare to a baby who was born alive after an attempted abortion. So those issues contrasted with Michael Whatley helped move voters in the direction of Whatley,” she added.
“We are finding that these messages really resonate. We’re finding that voters really feel left behind by the Democratic Party, either ones that were leaning Democrat or were thinking about Cooper. We’re finding that it really resonates and that it still is a top performing issue in North Carolina and makes a big difference,” Dannenfelser said.
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