Poor choice of wording in THAT headline.
Take one state, with an election which has absolutely no meaning regarding the abortion issue, except that people who are anti-abortions chose “the lesser of two evils”, and then go and extrapolate that into meaning that the whole country will not care about the abortion issue in the next round of elections.
The AP keeps making things up, but, they know that the low-information voters might take it for granted that the voters in Alabama and the rest of the country will no longer care about the abortion issue.
The AP could not be “more wronger”.