I agree that the recent bans are predominantly an attempt to sway public opinion in the states in favour of the Democrats for the upcoming election. I suspect this could backfire on them though, as people generally do not like feeling censored or bullied and shamed into voting a certain way. Also, all this focus on defunding the police is likely freaking many people out and pushing them toward the Republican side more.

Edit: I wanted to add that I'm also a typically more left-leaning Canadian woman who has decided to vote Conservative next election. Despite not sharing many values with them, the erasure of women and biological reality as fact is an important enough issue that I'm willing to vote for them on that alone. Also, the medicalization and transing of children is deeply wrong to me.