Florida Democratic Leaders Rally Women Voters in Tampa to Reject Donald Trump and MAGA Extremists’ Project 2025 Agenda, Reaffirm Commitment to Reproductive Rights
Today, U.S. Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, Florida House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell, and other Florida leaders gathered in Tampa to energize nearly 400 women voters and underscore the urgency of protecting reproductive freedoms in the face of Donald Trump and his MAGA allies’ extreme Project 2025 agenda.
Vice President Harris has long been a champion for reproductive freedom, from her time as California attorney general, to U.S. senator, and now as vice president. She is helping lead the Biden-Harris administration’s response to Trump’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. In stark contrast, Donald Trump says he is “proud” that he was able to “kill Roe v. Wade” and calls the extreme abortion bans, including those with no exceptions he unleashed “a beautiful thing to watch.” His Project 2025 agenda includes banning abortion and prosecuting doctors for mailing medication abortion – something Vance and other MAGA Republicans have called for.
Speakers at the event emphasized the critical stakes of this election for women in Florida and across the country.
“For the past several years, we’ve witnessed Trump and his MAGA allies trying to take away our freedoms and suppress our stories. But let me tell you what I know – women know what it is to fight suppression. And as we’ve done before, we will roll up our sleeves and get to work,” said Florida House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell. “Freedom is on the ballot this November, and women all across Florida are organizing to help elect Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States. Kamala Harris has our back and the women of Florida have hers!”
“Voting for Vice President Kamala Harris is absolutely critical if we want to protect our democracy from Donald Trump’s dangerous Project 2025 agenda. She will champion the issues that matter most to women—fighting for the right to determine what we’d like to do with our own bodies, equal pay, and health care access,” said U.S. Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett. “This election is our chance to select a leader who is one of us and will stand with women, with all Americans to reject Trump’s divisive politics and ensure a brighter future for us all. I campaigned in Florida in 2016 and 2020 and what I see on the ground now – Florida is on fire!”
“Vice President Kamala Harris has got the focus on our economy and our freedoms. She is watching out for us and for the issues that matter to everyday Americans,” said Tampa Mayor Jane Castor. “Kamala is going to get to work and lead this country to make sure that we remain the country of the free and the brave. We’ve got to make sure we put Vice President Kamala Harris in that White House come November.”
