good morning, everyone. big night, big election night. a lot of headlines to get to this morning. >> a little bit of a narrative shift, perhaps. >> a little bit? >> maybe. >> a lot of bit. democrats celebrating big wins this morning after ohio voters resoundingly say yes to a constitutional right to abortion. they notch victories in virginia and kentucky. that is where democratic governor andy beshear won a second win in that state. >> a new cnn show president biden losing in a potential rematch to president trump. an evacuation corridor is open for people to get out of northern gaza. that corridor closes next hour. new this morning, the house has censured rashida tlaib for her criticism of israel. 22 democrats joining republicans to reprimand the democrat. and ivanka trump is set to take the stand today, the fourth family member to testify but she's not a defendant in the case. "cnn this morning" starts right now. >> and phil is right, a big narrative shift and a huge night for democrats on abortion rights. [ applause ] hear those cheers in ohio, voters deciding to make abortion a right under the state's constitution. a solid majority voting yes. this is a state controlled by republicans. >> and in virginia, cnn projects democrats will take full control of the state legislature, they flipped the house delegates. abortion was, as you know, a dominant issue in these races. it is a setback for republican governor glenn youngkin, as he pushes to restrict abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. in the deep red state of kentucky, governor andy beshear, a democrat, has won reelection. keep in mind, this is a state where donald trump won by 26 points in 2020. beshear beat his republican opponent by about 5 points, according to the late st tally. >> anger politics end right here and right now. just look at what we were up against, five super pacs, my opponent's super pac, mitch mcconnell's super pac, running ads full of hate and division. and you know what, we beat them all at all times [ cheering and applause ] >> republicans did notch a win in mississippi, where tate reeves was reelected. always a little bit of a dangerous game to try and extrapolate off year election results. we're going to go ahead and do that right now. what do democrats think this means after a very good night? >> >> reporter: well, it was a significant victory for democrats. it couldn't come at a better time as there's tremendous anxiety about president biden's bid for reelection. across several states, voters made their voices heard on crucial ballot measures and important races for political office. in ohio, a state which has trended republican in recent elections, voters in the state approved a ballot measure, enshrining the right to abortion in the state constitution, signaling that abortion access is a key issue for voters across party lines. in a statement, president biden applauding the passage of the state's abortion rights measure saying, tonight americans once again voted to protect their fundamental freedoms, and democracy won. ohio voters also approved a second ballot measure, legalizing marijuana, making it the 24th state to do so. in virginia, a setback for the current gop governor glenn youngkin. >> you know what winning means, hold the house and flip the senate. >> reporter: while the governor hoped for both chambers of the state legislature to go republican, the democrats won control of both chambers of the virginia general assembly, retaining the senate and flipping the house of delegates. and in two marquee governors' races. >> thank you, kentucky. >> reporter: democratic governor, andy beshear, reelected to a second term in kentucky, defeating republican daniel cameron. in a deep red state that donald trump easily won in 2020. >> tonight, kentucky made a choice. a choice not to move to the right or to the left, but to move forward for every single family. >> and i got to tell you, this victory sure is sweet. >> reporter: and in mississippi, gop governor tate reeves reelected to another term, beating democrat brandon presley. >> i'm fired up for the next four years. i'm fired up because mississippi has momentum, and this is mississippi's time. >> reporter: and in philadelphia, history was made. >> i'm philly born, i'm philly bred, and i'll be a feill philadelphian until i'm dead. >> reporter: democrats say continue to expect abortion to be front and center as they will continue to elevate the issues they argue most americans care about as they try to replicate these victories in 2024. phil, poppy. >> eva mckend, thank you very much. joinings now, jeff mason, cofounder of -- former republican governor of georgia, jeff duncan. democrats feeling momentum they needed this morning after that polling from biden. what do you make of abortion in ohio, is that just ohio and just abortion or a push for dems across the nation pushing them into 2024? >> i think voters are nuanced and sophisticated than the polls pick up. while i think abortion has been a key issue, not only we saw that in the midterms but we saw it last night that i think women and young voters in particular are performing or responding to that, but i think there are other issues as well, marijuana pass, the legalization of marijuana in ohio, and we look at what happened to beshear in kentucky, i think health care played a key role. i think this is going to be an election cycle that issues are going to matter. >> geoff with a g. >> thank you for noting that. >> clarity is important. >> we're teaching and learning at the same time. glenn youngkin staked where he's at in his star rise in the party, which has been unequivocal since 2021, flipping a chamber, having the trifecta, being able to move conservative policies through virginia, a blue state through the last couple of cycles, what does this do for him? >> 24 hours ago he had more political capital, and 24 hours later, he doesn't do what he said he wanted to do. one of the reasons he didn't run for senate is he wanted to keep the senate and win the house of delegates. he had a misstep late in the game, talked a lot about abortion. virginia is one big suburb. the issues we saw play out across the country isn't a good issue to talk about for republicans. we haven't figured out our cadence. we have made abortion about a primary, and it seems like we continue to hammer the issue of abortion through the lens of running a primary. we walk into a general, we have no empathy, no understanding of what 17-year-old is dealing with in her life or tough circumstances. until we figure it out, we're going to get beat over and over. >> it's an interesting point, jeff with a j, glenn youngkin kept saying it's not a ban. it's a limit. vivek ramaswamy from ohio said to kaitlan last night. listen. >> we need to talk about the issue very differently in order to bring people along here. i think if we frame this issue correctly, this need not be some sort of final sign that we take. this was a lost battle in ohio today. i'm disappointed about that. i think there are deep reflections in the republican party and the pro life movement about how to improve from here, but abandoned the pro life cause i don't think is the right answer. >> you think it's just a messaging issue, you think it's just a messaging issue? is it just a messaging issue? >> clearly not. the polls showed in ohio it's not just democrats who came out and voted in favor of this. it's republicans as well, which isn't necessarily good for joe biden. it means it's an issue that's driving people to the polls, certainly good for people in favor of reproductive rights, and it's probably good for democrats as well. it won't necessarily translate to get getting more people in h column. it's about the core issue, and has been since the supreme court struck down roe v. wade. >> these results came out as a cnn poll, another cnn poll came out showing his top line is weak, he's losing to the former president in a rematch. more importantly, the coalitions and the strength of the coalitions that gave him 80 plus million votes in 2020 are weak right now to some degree. young voters, african-american voters and latino voters. is there anything you draw from last night about whether or not that can be recreated. >> i actually drove the opposite. i think last night is indicative that coalitions are strong. i think biden and the democrats are going to have to do a stronger message that centers issues and things people care about, instead of literally being candidate centered. i think they're going to have to shift their message. for young people, i think the support is within his base. the question is can you maintain and solidify your base of supporters. >> the exit point from ohio showed that 25% of voters think biden is the right candidate, a good candidate. i wonder if it was more on these issues than on him. >> i think the honest truth is if he had a stiff enough cocktail, a majority of republicans would do anything other than donald trump, and same with democrats, right, if you just woke skpup up and said both seem to be victims of gravity, and we are where we're at, all hoping that something else changes in the next few months, and i don't know what that's going to be. >> it's not going to change. >> guys, this is a tough tease to the debate tonight, republican debate tonight, which we'll obviously all be watching. appreciate it, guys, stick around. next, we're going to take a deep dive in what pushed ohio voters to the polls and what it tells us about the big line in '24. a 4-hour evacuation order is open in gaza. and what s secretary blinknken abouout growing g calls s for r fire therere. stay w with us. let's take a closer look at the leading issue driving last night's election results. abortion also a critical issue in the governor's race in kentucky. and in the state legislature races throughout virginia. let's start with ohio. we had the 2020 map up for a reason because this is very clearly a red state. it has been moving in that direction cycle after cycle after cycle. donald trump in 2020 winning by 475,00 475,000 votes. what happens when you put it to this ballot initiative itself. this wasn't close. when it came to a constitutional right to abortion. the yes won by 500,000 votes, and here's what's most interesting, people going county by county and picking out the data are looking at right now. if you look at the counties that donald trump won in 2020, these, everything that's highlights in orange and green are counties that trump won in this red state of ohio. everything that's green, these are trump won counties that voted in favor last night, underscoring the ability of this issue to just drive voters in favor of abortion rights. it's something we have seen repeatedly over the course of the last year. whether it's in kansas, montana, michigan, kentucky, we saw is again in ohio. what about the governor's race? because this is also a critical race to consider going forward. now, when you talk about andy beshear, keep in mind, he was an incumbent, a popular incumbent, and that is important. what's also important is if you look at the margin, the state's restrictive abortion law that daniel cameron had shown support for. he won and won handily. 66,000 votes ahead, boosting his margins, not just in blue districts you see her. and also minimizing his bleed in districts that are republican. 2019, only won by 5,000 votes. republicans will tell you daniel cameron is a much better candidate. what about the state legislature races? we talked about glenn youngkin and the push there. glenn youngkin wanted to push a chamber and having a full trifecta. not only did he not flip one, he lost a chamber. democrats are in control of the state senate, holding control there, and also flipping the state house, and what does that tell you? well, most of these democrats were running on abortion. running on a number of issues. youngkin thought he could go on offense, at least according to the results last night in virginia, kentucky, and ohio, that didn't work. >> amazing what 24 hours can do. >> thank you so much. the new cnn poll spells trouble for biden in 2024. a former member of the biden administration is here to discuss next. israel's defense minister says idf troops are fighting in the heart of gaza city as palestinians are seen leaving south, and some are waving white flags. the latest on the war front ahead. you want to be able to provide your child with the tools or resources they need. with reliable internet at home, through the internet essentials program, the world opened up. fellas, fellas. that's how my son was able to find the hidden genius project. we wanted to give y'all the necessary skills to compete with the future. kevin's now part of this next generation of young people who feel they can thrive. ♪ ♪ welcome back, democrats pulling off big wins in ohio, kentucky, and virginia last night. there are still serious head winds, though, facing president biden's reelection campaign. there was a brand new cnn national poll this morning, and it shows donald trump beating biden in a hypothetical rematch, 49-45, and when it comes to favorability ratings, both candidates are underwater. 39% favorable, versus unfavorable for biden, trump, not too far off, 56% unfavorable. still what this poll makes clear is that american's see biden's weakness as trump's strength on whether the candidate has the stamina, the sharpness to serve effectively. a quarter of americans back biden, compared to 53% who say trump has that. and on being an effective world leader, biden comes in at 36%, trump at 48%. we are seeing the same trends nationally that we saw in the swing state polls from "the new york times" and sienna college. biden losing support among key groups that helped him win in 2020, voters younger than 35 where trump leads by a point. but in 2020, biden won that group by 24 points. among black voters, 73% favor biden. that number was 87% for biden in 2020. and latino voters have split, 50% say biden, 46% say trump. that's a 4 point margin. in 2020, biden won that group by 33 points, and there appears to be an enthusiasm gap. 71% of republicans say they are extremely motivated to go to the polls in '24, compared to 61% of democrats. >> we'll discuss all of this and more, cnn political commentator, kate bedingfield, the deputy campaign manager of the 2020 campaign. is the assumption here that at some point people will zero in on a trump versus biden rematch and therefore the coalition will come home? >> i think there are two things, yes, i do think that the challenge for the biden campaign in many ways is to make this 2024 effort about trump and to really draw that contrast. i mean, you sort of ratting off all of the numbers in the cnn poll that are not great for biden. there are a lot of nrumbers in the poll that are troubling for trump too. trump does not have an enormous bulwark of support based on that poll. that is, i think, drawing that contrast is one piece of it. also, let's take a step back. you know, voters went to the polls yesterday, and we saw an enormous amount of enthusiasm for the democratic agenda. we saw that abortion is motivating voters, and frankly, biden's agenda is popular. you listen to andy beshear who won last night. that was a vintage biden speech when you listened to his acceptance speech last night. he's talking about universal broad band, things that are biden accomplishments. what we saw from voters actually going to the polls yesterday is that there is enormous popularity for the biden agenda, and so the challenge for biden is to capture that enthusiasm and drive that contrast, which he now has a year to do. >> he's not polling well in the economy. it's like 36% and our reporting yesterday is, quote, there's no major strategy revamp coming, no deep reassessments, no candidate replacements. why no shift at all given the reality of those numbers? >> look, this is a confounding problem, i'll tell you from my time in the white house. this is an incredibly confounding messaging problem. there are so many signs that the economy is stronger than anybody anticipated it would be two years ago, that we've avoided recession, that we're growing jobs. people have concerns about cost, they have concerns about inflation. the president certainly knows that and is focused on addressing what people are feeling in their day-to-day lives. as an electoral matter, if you're making decisions about how you're turning out your voters, yesterday was a good road map. voters yesterday had concerns about the economy, but they turned out in droves to reject the republican agenda on abortion, and again, in support of some of these core planks of the biden economic agenda. so it is a confounding challenge, absolutely. there is a huge disconnect between how people feel about the economy, and, you know, what on paper is a strong economy, something the campaign and the white house grapple with. but, again, i think there was a road map yesterday to electoral success, and we saw it in voters actually coming out and voting. >> i think we probably spent hours in your office, you walking me through internal polling about how the issues are popular, the issues of the infrastructure law, the issues of the inflation reduction act, the issue of the c.h.i.p.s bill, issue, by issue, they're popular, they're not transferring to favorables for biden. andy beshear, he was at the bridge with joe biden and mitch mcconnell. what is the disconnect with the president specifically? and i guess the obvious question is it his age? >> biden hasn't been on the ballot. we haven't seen -- voters have not rejected joe biden at the ballot box. that's the frame there, kind of pro supposes the idea that voters have said i like your agenda but i don't like you. we haven't seen that. so, you know, i think, look, is age a question? is it at the forefront of the conversation? yes, we certainly see that in the polling, but we also see, again, that when the rubber meets the road and voters go to the polls, this was true in 2022 in the midterms when the expectation was that democrats were going to get wiped out and they did not. it was true in the run up to yesterday. yesterday was a good reminder, the narrative doesn't vote. voters vote. >> do polls vote? >> polls do not vote so we're clear on this. >> said a lot between the two of you, polls do not vote. >> polls do not vote, and it's still true. >> good to have you, kate. >> thanks. house votes to censure rashida tlaib over her comments about israel. ivanka trump, what her testimony could mean for the family's business. happening now, the israeli military has opened a four-four evacuation corridor out of gaza. it's set to close in the next half hour. scores of palestinians have been seen fleeing northern gaza to the south, some carrying i.d.s and waving white flags. it comes as israel says its troops are in the target of gaza city, targeting infrastructure and commanders. a few hours ago, secretary of state antony blinken renewed his objections to an immediate cease fire in gaza. listen. >> all of us want to end this conflict as soon as possible, and meanwhile, to minimize civilian suffering, but as i discussed with my g7 colleagues, those calling for an immediate cease fire, have an obligation to explain how to address the unacceptable result it would likely bring about. ultimately, the only way to ensure this crisis never happens again is to begin setting the conditions for durable peace and security and to frame our diplomatic efforts now with that in mind. >> that statement comes as the palestinian ministry of health in ramallah says more than 70% of the ten thousand people killed in gaza since october 7th have been children, women and the elderly. >> in washington, the house did vote to censure rashida tlaib for her recent comments about isra