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Voters in michigan voted 57 to 43 to make abortion a right by adding it to the state constitution. michigan democratic governor gretchen whitmer was reelected with more than 54% of the vote and democrats won control of the state legislature for the first time in 40 years. joining us now is democratic michigan state senator mallory mcmorrow who won reelection last night. senator, thank you very much for joining us again tonight. what was the key, lets concentrate for the moment on the legislative...

Making new yorkers leave the state. her record is a disaster. shes been governor over a year. nothing has gotten better. everything has gotten worse. >> you mentioned her focus on abortion a distraction she continues to make by talking about it. this was hochul last night arguing zeldins abortion stance should be a deal breaker. >> you know why nothing changed, its because he would bring on a pro-life health commissioner. you know how much power that person has? they could use their power to shu...

Pretty competitive race. >> yeah, it is. when you look at the polling numbers. thats interesting. so, lets step back, because you did this great piece at the end of your sunday show this weekend on luria, you travel to a number of states you talk to candidates in the field where they are, about the stakes. a lot of candidates both sides of the aisle, ahead of the midterms are making abortion a key issue. i wonder how significant your reporting tells you that is for the voters right now, democrat...

Leaning on that law now that its been held up at least in this preliminary injunction in idaho. >> julia, thanks so much. both democrats and the gop are making abortion a key issue in primaries and the general election now just 75 days away. here for more is the man in charge of the messaging for one of those parties. dnc chair jamie harrison. good afternoon. thanks for being with us. >> good afternoon. thank you for having me. >> nbc news has a new poll out about the top issues facing america...

Abortion ban from being enforced. the abortion ban, which -- also makes abortion a felony and its remained on the books for 91 u.s.. it had not been enforced for the past nearly 50 years because, of course, roe is the law of the land. governor whitmer, for seeing with the high court would do and strip abortion rights from americans, she sued the states prosecuting attorneys and 13 counties, where all the states abortion clinics are located. those are the attorneys who would ultimately be in char...

I wont enforce the laws in my own state attorney generalth stating this isin really outrageous. simply theres just simply saying, well, i refuse to even be involvedoose in this systemo and it is so funny then declaring this decision is illegitimate. wewe cant follow it wheni they just kind ofga give a lecture about stare decisis. it stari decisis for v. but not for me. antthey want everyone else to be locked into their bad, erroneous constitutional t precedent. but then when they get a decision ...

0 to people and they say they took away our right to abortion. you can tell them the truth. thats not what todays decision did. they decided who gets to decide and the constitution is clear . its the states all the time we have left this evening. thanks for being with us. thank you for making the show possible. stay with the fox news channel for continuing coverage, not your heartbeat troubled lauras next . well see on monday. im laura ingram and this is ingraham angle on a triumphant friday nig...

Its impact on the 2018 election. i think we saw it in the statements that came out after the bailout of the farmers. were seeing it show up in some of these polls like the ones we were talking about across the midwestern states. the worry is not that the voters are going to not support trump or theyre going to cross over and go for democrats. danger is they stay home and say i generally like the president but this is hurting me personally. >> kind of speaks what the senator was just saying. >> e...

Campaign in colorado has started. and you can tell that from the fact that this is mark udalls very first official campaign ad. >> it comes down to respect for women and our lives. so congressman cory gardners history promoting harsh anti-abortion laws is disturbing. gardner sponsored a bill to make abortion a felony, including cases of rape and insist. gardner even championed an eight-year crusade to outlaw birth control here in colorado. but mark udall protects our right to choose, our access ...

Gardner sponsored a bill to make abortion a felony, including cases of rape and insist. gardner even championed an eight-year crusade to outlaw birth control here in colorado. but mark udall protects our right to choose, our access to birth control. mark udall. in a word, respect. >> im mark udall, and i approve this message. >> again, that is the first official campaign ad being run by senator mark udall in his re-election campaign against republican congressman cory gardner. the republicans ha...