Pennsylvania’s governor’s race — which had taken a backseat to the battle for its Senate seat — could now decide the fate of abortion rights in the state. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, long antagonized by a Republican legislature, is term-limited, and his replacement will decide what’s next.

In North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s term isn’t up until 2024, but he’s now trying to avoid a GOP supermajority in the state legislature that could veto his attempts to preserve abortion rights.

“That’s where the battles will move to — the state capitals — and where these fundamental freedoms will be won and lost. And it will matter who [the] governors are,” Cooper told Axios.

Zoom in: The stakes also got higher for Democrats to try to flip their own gubernatorial races, especially in Georgia, where the party managed to lock down two Senate seats in the 2020 cycle.