Voters walked from New Hope Missionary Baptist Church to the African American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale as part of Souls to the Polls.
By making abortion rights central to their campaigns, top Florida Democrats thought they could get young voters and independent women to punish anti-abortion Republicans in the midterm elections. But Florida voters say inflation is their top concern: “How is abortion going to top that personal experience with gas, housing, groceries, rent?”
In the final stretch of the midterm election campaign, Florida Democratic candidates and surrogates are pushing, cajoling and pleading with Black voters to turn out and cast their ballots. “I understand that there’s this bit of apathy in our community when people may feel, ‘How does this impact me? How does this impact my day-to-day life?’”