Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson participated in a “pre-debate offensive” against former President Donald Trump on Monday, joining with Democrats to promote their pro-abortion agenda.

Benson rallied in Clawson with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, and others on Monday as they relived the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade two years ago.

“Not Justin Amash, not Sandy Pensler, and certainly not Mike Rogers are going to do a single thing to protect women’s rights, to protect families’ rights… But we’re not going to let them.”
Sen. @MalloryMcMorrow on the #MISen GOP candidates’ extreme anti-abortion records. pic.twitter.com/NPvG8QtusZ

— Michigan Democrats (@MichiganDems) June 24, 2024

“Not Justin Amash, not Sandy Pensler, and certainly not Mike Rogers are going to do a single thing to protect women’s rights, to protect families’ rights… But we’re not going to let them,” McMorrow said as Benson nodded approvingly.

The Secretary of State applauded as McMorrow advocated for the Republicans’ defeat.

The decision sparked a 2022 ballot initiative in Michigan to enshrine abortion access into the state constitution, helping to propel Democrats to their first state government trifecta in 40 years. Benson pleaded with attendees to reconnect with their emotions following the Supreme Court decision, although the issue has nothing officially to do with her state office.

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“When we think about how we felt on this day, two years ago let’s also connect to the energy that followed,” Benson said, according to Michigan Advance. “That energy that changed our state for the better.”

The event is part of a concerted effort by Democrats to center the election on abortion, alleging Trump will usher in a national abortion ban if elected to second term, a claim Trump disputed months ago.

The abortion fearmongering has been led by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Biden’s campaign co-chair, and supported by an ad campaign featuring Kaitlyn Joshua, a Louisiana woman who suffered a miscarriage.

“Women’s lives across this country are at stake,” Joshua claimed Monday. “While Michiganders are proudly pro-choice with voters passing important protections for reproductive rights in 2022, no one in this state would be safe under a second Trump presidency.”

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Emhoff echoed the same claim.

“Yes, they are protecting those rights right now, but that’s all in play if Donald Trump comes back,” he said.

Whitmer promoted the same line at Biden campaign events in Michigan, Arizona, Texas, North Carolina and elsewhere, though CNN confronted her about the false allegations on Monday.

“He is absolutely front and center as on the road to an all-out national abortion ban,” Whitmer said. “And that’s why we’ve got to get Joe Biden elected this fall.”

CNN host John Bergman set the record straight.

“He says he’s not on the road to an all-out abortion ban, federal, because he said he wants to leave it up to the states, right? He said he would not support a federal ban,” Bergman countered. “I’m not arguing with him being responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but just on that specific question, he wants it left up to the states, he says.”

Trump made that clear in April when he said his stance on abortion is “all about the will of the people.”

“My view is … the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state. Many states will be different, many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people,” Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social. “You must follow your heart or, in many cases, your religion or your faith. Do what’s right for your family and do what’s right for yourself … do what’s right for our country.”

The efforts by Michigan Democrats and others to put abortion on the ballot in 2024 comes as a recent poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows motivation to vote among Democratic women is waning in states without abortion-related ballot initiatives.

In Michigan, the KFF survey found 60% of women voters, and 69% of Democratic women voters, are now focused on inflation as a top issue now that abortion access was settled with the 2022 ballot initiative.

Only 53% of women surveyed gave Biden a positive rating on inflation.