'Winning issue': Democrats want to make US election 'about abortion'

Democrats want to make the upcoming US election about abortion because they know it’s a “winning issue for them,” says The Federalist Elections Correspondent Brianna Lyman. “That being said, Politico had done an analysis a few weeks ago, and they looked at five different races where abortion was a ballot referendum,” Ms Lyman told Sky News host James Morrow. “And what they found was that yes, voters decisively kept abortion in their respective states, but that turnout wasn’t because Democrats mobilised; the turnout was because Republicans actually mobilised. “So you saw a bunch of Republicans go out, they voted to keep abortion, but then they voted down the ballot for Republicans. “And so it turns out that abortion is not the winning issue to galvanise Democrats in the polls.”