really is just a small segment of the right-wing legal system that they have been pursuing for decades now, that is what they are doing. so texas has been an incubator for the most extreme conservative ideas, some of which have found or are finding their way to the supreme court. what will surprise people? for it is that texas is not as nearly a deep red state, its government is far more extreme than its voters. biden and trump both got 5 million votes in texas, a five point biden got 5.3 million in texas, a trump got to 5.9 million votes in texas. that s not an insurmountable difference for a big and diverse state like texas. i wonder if women in texas and their families have had a on reproductive health care. as you talked about lawyers are deciding reproductive health care. will that lived experience be something that changes minds, though? i believe it will enjoy the thin we are right where states
some as small as 89 people in some of these rural districts. then you ve got these 3 or 4 giant districts that have a million or more people that are the more blue tinged districts. that s how you construct a state where you make most of the districts these tiny little rural district. let s just look at harris county. statewide, trump versus biden. statewide it was tight, 5.9 million for trump, 5.2 million for biden. but in harris county, biden beat trump, 918,000 to 700,000. go back to 2016, it s also close. 4.6 million statewide to 3.8. people don t understand, that s not a huge margin. you know, democrats are pretty competitive but in harris county, the democrats win. they are now attempting to dissolve the harris county election administrator. this is the republicans who impeached paxton, not paxton himself. empower the secretary of state to seize election power from election officials. they can redo the election, pull
election, 5.9 million voted for trump, 5.2. 5.5 million texans who are registered didn t vote. unregistered. 5.5 million texans in the presidential election in 2020 were registered and did not vote. didn t vote. that s the problem. speaking of harris county, let me bring in sheila jackson lee who represents harris county. you hopefully been able to hear what we have been talking about, congress woman. how does that materially impact people in harris county that 4.6 million people are essentially disenfranchised and the attorney general, the impeached attorney general of your state is bragging about doing it. it is a horror of proportions that one cannot imagine. and that means that all of the fight that was ever made in the civil rights movement and before the lives lost the civil rights soldiers gone to naught because
i hate to say it. i have to say, i watch college basketball, i haven t watched nba. if it is the lakers and celtics in the finals, i m watching all seven. that s a good series. this all brings us it s all prelude. brand up-brand down with donny deutch. he committed to usc. he is number 19 in the country. he is projected to go number 10 in themb draft. he is the nil. he is worth $5.9 million. college athletes can trade on their likeness. lebron james has been in the public eye since high school. he has the son to prove it. he said something moving. he was glad his son was staying home. he was also the first in the
in turkey, voters will head to the polls to elect a new president injust 10 days. the country s long time leader, recep tayyip erdogan, is facing a range of challenges including soaring inflation. the presidential vote comes less than three months after earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people and displaced more than 5.9 million across southern turkey and northern syria. and president erdogan is facing a real threat from kamal killich du rooloo he s the leader of the opposition alliance. he says he wants turkey to be less authoritarian, with an outlook towards the west. our senior international correspondent orla guerin has been speaking to him and some of his supporters. let s cross live now to istanbul and speak to orla. all presidential elections like this have very high stakes but this one particularly right now? i have very high stakes but this one particularly right now? particularly right now? i think in turke is particularly right now? i think in turkey is regarded