'VEEP' star Julia Louis-Dreyfus urges suburban women to join a 'troublemaker turnout' effort aiming to fire up 100,000 abortion rights voters in midterm battlegrounds

• "Veep" alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus calls on suburban women to join the abortion rights fight.
• The "Great Troublemaker Turnout" campaign intends to stir up voters in four battleground states.

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus channels her inner John Lewis in a women-led advocacy campaign seeking suburban "troublemakers" who'll try and get 100,000 abortion rights to the polls this fall in four battleground states.

Campaign architect Red Wine and Blue, which whipped its 300,000 followers into action earlier this year to counter political culture wars ranging from banning LGBTQ-friendly books to protesting COVID restrictions, listed Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina as its primary targets.

"Red Wine and Blue needs you for the great troublemaker turnout," the former "Veep" star says in a recruiting video she posted online. She adds that the outreach effort is designed to bolster candidates up and down the ballot "who will protect reproductive freedom, public education, and democracy."

Abortion rocketed to one of the top issues for this year's midterms after the Supreme Court's conservative judges overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Democrats have sought to play up the polarizing issue in their bid to retain control of the narrowly divided House and 50-50 Senate, while Senate Republicans are fighting amongst themselves about pursuing a nationwide ban.

The Roe reversal hasn't yet upended anything in Michigan or Pennsylvania, but legal challenges are bubbling in Ohio and North Carolina. A more stringent 6-week ban is temporarily on hold in the former, while a recent court ruling in the latter shaved four weeks off existing law, shortening the new legal limit to 20 weeks.

As part of her plug, Louis-Dreyfus explains that the friendly conversations Red Wine and Blue is hoping to spark between now and November are projected to be 15-times more effective than cold calling or traditional door knocking.

"Because when we contact our friends, they actually respond," she said.

Louis-Dreyfus previously lent her support to the 2020 Democratic National Convention, sharing her story of first meeting then-Vice President Joe Biden while playing bumbling politician Selina Meyer on HBO's raucous send-up of life inside the Oval Office.

Red Wine and Blue did not immediately respond to a request for comment about other celebrities who might be involved in the troublemaker turnout program.