TAMPA, Fla. — President Joe Biden's re-election campaign visited a Tampa community college on Tuesday afternoon. He spoke on a key issue he hopes will help put Florida in play this year.
Biden spoke for about 15 minutes at Hillsborough County Community College, Dale Mabry Campus, and remarked that if he was re-elected, he hoped to make community college free.
President Biden discussed Florida's abortion amendment vote. The amendment would enshrine abortion in the Florida constitution and get rid of the state's soon-to-be-in-place six-week abortion ban. He also spoke about restoring abortion rights at the national level.
The president will leave early Tuesday evening
Democrats hope the abortion amendment will increase voter turnout in their favor and force Republicans to spend money on a state that many believed was out of reach for Biden's campaign.
Thus far, in every state that has voted on abortion rights, pro-choice voters have turned out and won every election.
Biden has been hitting the campaign trail frequently as his opponent, former President Donald Trump, is in a Manhattan courtroom facing criminal charges related to a scheme during the 2016 presidential election.
In 2020, Biden lost Florida to former President Donald Trump by a 51.2 to 47.9 percent margin.
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