Now an extraordinary political moment, the kind that just a few years ago was in the category of hell has frozen over and pigs are flying. Vice president harris will be joined on the Campaign Trail by None Other than Liz Cheney in battleground wisconsin. Their joint Campaign Appearance is fraught with symbolism. Nbc news reports, quote, harris plans to play into that symbolism by recognizing the founding principles of the Republican Party. Thats according to a senior campaign official. Harris will be at the Birth Place of the gop together with Liz Cheney. The democratic president ial nominee and a former Republican Congresswoman, former leader of the republican caucus and the heir to a family whose name is synonymous with what it meant to be a conservative republican speaks to the coalition Vice President harris has assembled. Its unprecedented in modern american politics. Its an incredibly large tent she has assembled that includes former Vice President Dick Cheney and bernie sanders.
to muster 60% of the vote of the people, and maybe you should not consider bringing it to the ballot. now, okay, like, you are tracking, this rate? pro-choice advocates say that we want to put a validation of, constitutional amendment on the state. happened in other states. the republican secretary of state frank burrow says, you know what i m thinking? let us make it harder to pass one of those. now, the rose claims that the proposal is no connection at all to any potential ballot measure on abortion. but he wants to put the amendment up for a vote during the primary in may, likely before an abortion initiative would make it onto the ballot. and here is the best part of this. their own plan to make it harder to pass a future constitutional amendments would require just a simple majority to pass. so if you can get 50 plus one, maybe you can stop the people of ohio from actually governing themselves where abortion is concerned, which is the point. it is all very transparent. but ohio
reproductive rights in all i five states. now, abortion rights activists in other states want to follow suit with their own ballot measures, including in ohio where a current so-called heartbeat ban went into effect the same day roe was overturned. the executive director says that the proposed validation of, quote, it is a, when it s not enough. now, republicans in the state of ohio,, against serve, states trump they d that trump won by eight points. they are obviously worried about putting their deeply unpopular position on abortion up for a vote to the people. so they are trying to make it harder for the other side to win. secretary of state frank raúl brian stewart proposing what they call the ohio constitution protection and. the amendment would make it so that a citizen initiated constitutional amendment on any ballot would have to pass by 60% of the vote. rather than the current simple majority. if you don t think that your idea is broadly popular enough
in other states want to follow suit with their own ballot measures, including in ohio where a current so-called heartbeat ban went into effect the same day roe was overturned. the executive director says that the proposed validation of, quote, it is a brian stewart proposing what they call the ohio constitution protection and. the amendment would make it so that a citizen initiated constitutional amendment on any ballot would have to pass by 60% of the vote. rather than the current simple majority. if you don t think that your idea is broadly popular enough to muster 60% of the vote of the people, and maybe you should not consider bringing it to the ballot. now, okay, like, you are tracking, this rate? pro-choice advocates say that we want to put a validation of,
no one would have paid attention to people saying without marching. without those marches. without those young people on the street, without all the people on the street saying what did that really do? well, it did this. that report, although it was not a magic pill for anything, is definitely a validation of, you know, long, long-felt, deeply felt oppression in that community. and mirroring many communities around the country. so there is value to that. and value to the protest politics and just the hope that it really blossoms into a movement. selma was a part of a 13 year long civil rights protest. when you look at all of the incidents and the efforts that led up to something like selma, it was decades in the making. so perhaps we re in the middle or the beginning of a movement that may take some time. but there was something about that report that i think, you know, echoing what we hear from