I spent a weekend following canvassers in a bellwether Florida county trying to persuade voters to turn out for abortion rights. What I saw made me anxious.
up a street lined with waterfront mansions and Trump-Vance 2024 yard signs. They’ve been knocking on doors in Tarpon Springs — a red city in a bellwether county near Tampa thatby just a few thousand votes — for nearly two hours in 100-degree heat. Amy, 56, a petite brunette who drives an SUV covered in white-marker slogans like “Crooked Donald” and “No to,” and Joseph, 64, a white-haired man wearing a purple “Yes on 4” T-shirt, haven’t had much luck.
And yet, many voters across the state have no idea this is happening, canvassers tell me. I meet a different Amy — Amy Weintraub, reproductive-rights program director at the nonprofit Progress Florida — in a park in liberal-leaning St. Petersburg, where she and 20 other volunteers load up on orange slices and bottles of water before pairing off to door-knock. “Before I started canvassing, I would’ve said yes, people know” about the state’s near-total ban and the efforts to repeal it, she says.
“The purpose of these types of tactics are to send a chill through our community,” says Alex Berrios, co-founder of the organizing group Mi Vecino Florida. “It’s an attack on our ability to participate in elections.”
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