Joe Biden faces fresh headwinds from his base: The Note

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Read more from Geoffrey and Holly on how Americans feel about abortion in a post-Roe world.
41% : That's the percentage of Americans who named abortion as a top issue facing the U.S. in the latest FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll, which was conducted from June 27 to July 5.
38% : Recent weeks brought bombshell conservative Supreme Court decisions, new outrages surfaced by the House's Jan. 6 committee, slightly better-than expected economic numbers and even an unlikely legislative victory on gun control.
33% : Abbott has avoided putting too much attention on Texas' power grid and instead has focused on the southern border.
32% : Kate Bedingfield, who is soon to leave her position, told The Washington Post that Biden's aim in guaranteeing access to abortion "is not to satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party."
22% : And as Geoffrey Skelley and Holly Fuong write, abortion might not be a top issue for most Americans -- things like inflation and crime and gun violence still rank higher -- but most Americans have thoughts on where the fight over abortion goes next.

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