With no less than American democracy hanging in the balance, Kamala Harris came to Phoenix on Friday to talk about the fundamental right of abortion.

This is an election year, after all, in which Americans could re-elect Donald Trump, the man most responsible for knocking down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling that established a woman’s right to abortion.

With so much at stake, Kamala Harris, the first woman and first African American to serve as vice president, came to South Mountain Community Center in Phoenix and told some 200 faithful that “the eyes of the nation are on Arizona.”

Missing from the faithful, however, were the two most powerful Democrats in the state of Arizona – Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes.

Also missing was the Democrats’ U.S. Senate candidate Ruben Gallego, but we’ll get to him later.

One might expect that Hobbs and Mayes could make time for the most powerful woman and second-highest ranking Democrat in the United States.

Harris also happens to be the White House point person on the Women’s Health Protection Act, a proposal to enshrine a woman’s right to abortion in federal law.

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