Democratic candidates at all levels of office and PACs supporting abortion rights have raised more than $80 million in donations since the Supreme Court released its opinion reversing the Roe v. Wade decision, the Associated Press reports.
Most of the money is going to national and statewide races, a trend that worries some Democratic leaders who want to push for offices in local and state legislative districts where local laws can be made, a similar strategy Republicans took in previous decades to control legislation on the state level.
“We can no longer afford Democrats’ systemic neglect of down-ballot races — not when Republicans are eager to intrude on our health care decisions, bedrooms, and marriages,” said Gabrielle Chew, a spokesperson for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which helps finance state legislative races. “This should be a wake-up call.”