Baby formula more important to suburban moms than abortion

 Washington Times:

President Biden and his Democrats were already in trouble with suburban women due to inflation, high gas prices and an agenda these voters say does not align with their priorities.

Then baby formula disappeared from store shelves.

Images of empty store shelves and stories of frantic parents searching for food to feed their infants, coupled with reports that the Biden administration is shipping pallets of scarce formula to the southern border to feed illegal immigrant children, now threaten to crater the party’s already weakened support among suburban women.

“Democrats have seen a double-digit decline among their strongest groups, especially women who are already struggling to stretch a dollar,” Republican strategist Ryan Girdusky told the Washington Times. “But now they’re trying to find food for their children.”

Women were a pivotal voting bloc for President Biden and Democrats in 2020. Exit polls show they backed Mr. Biden over Donald Trump 57% to 47%.

But over the past few months, polls show women have soured on Mr. Biden. While he won’t be on the November ballot, Democrats have been sinking along with him in the eyes of female voters dealing with skyrocketing inflation, gas prices and now a formula shortage.
“That hits home,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. “You can’t get any closer to a suburban woman than making her run all over the place to find baby food. There is nothing that hits that demographic more directly, than not having what your infant needs every day.”

A February poll conducted by Marist and published in collaboration with NPR and PBS Newshour found that 45% of suburban women surveyed said they approved of President Biden’s job performance, a double-digit decline from a poll taken two months earlier.

A Marist poll taken in late April showed suburban women favored Republicans over Democrats on the economy and slowing inflation, two top voter concerns. Among parents with children under 18, registered voters said they would pick a Republican over a Democrat in November’s congressional election by a nearly 30-point margin, 60% to 32%.

The baby formula shortage may escalate the flight to the GOP among suburban voters and particularly women.

“Inflation and supply chain problems have badly damaged Biden’s public standing and Democratic midterm prospects,” said Ron Faucheux, a pollster and nonpartisan political analyst. “This is particularly true among independents and suburban women, and could get worse if the problems get worse.”

The scarcity of formula is impacting entire families, who are scrambling to help find cans for hungry infants.

In Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, Ghada, 52, searched in vain to find a specialty brand of formula for her one-year-old nephew, who has allergies.

“It’s a big problem,” she said. “We couldn’t find formula anywhere.”
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Democrats thought that abortion would be a way to attract suburban moms.  It is actually more likely to be an issue for urban single women.  The baby formula problem did not sneak up on the Dems.  It has been other for months and the government exasperated the problem by shutting down a baby formula plant when four babies got sick and the cause was wrongfully diagnosed as being from the formula. That was a screw-up with dire consequences.

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