President Biden and Democrats will try to use their base’s new nightmare scenario — a repeal of federal abortion rights — to salvage midterm elections in which inflation, crime and COVID-19 malaise have made losing control of Congress all but a foregone conclusion. Why it matters: One big question is whether they can have that impact between now and November, or have to wait for 2024.

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