Biden repeatedly interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters at abortion rights rally

In their first joint appearance of the 2024 campaign, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held an abortion rights rally in Virginia on Tuesday — but Biden was repeatedly interrupted by protesters opposed to his support of Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza.

Biden has trouble delivering his prepared speech, by one count getting interrupted 14 times by protester chants that included «Genocide Joe» and «cease-fire now.»

His supporters in the audience, in turn, repeatedly drowned them out with chants of «four more years» and «let's go Joe.»

Security and Secret Service members escorted the protesters out each time.

When he was able to speak, Biden spoke of what he called the «devastating impacts» of the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade, how Republicans have tried to limit access since then and how women voters have backed abortion rights in recent votes.

«Today in America, women are being turned away from emergency rooms, forced to travel hundreds of miles to get basic health care, forced to go to court to plead to help to protect themselves and their ability to then have children in the future,» Biden said. «The cruelty is astounding. And it's a direct affront to a woman's dignity.»

The rally, on the same day as the New Hampshire GOP primary, is part of a larger effort to mark the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

«It feels like so much is at stake and things could go either way,» Jackie Hoffenberg, a voter who attended the Biden rally in Virginia, told ABC News. «Our country is really going to not be the same if Joe Biden is not the next president.»

Biden was interrupted more than a dozen times during the rally by protesters calling him «Genocide Joe» over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Their shouts