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i think that the presiden was absolutely right i live in kansas, and we have vote, a referendum on th ballot in kansas at the primar in august. the first vote after dobbs and it was almost a 60 4 decision, and the very red state of kansas that said, people want to make their ow decisions about reproductive health and reinforcing our supreme court ruling that th kansas constitution protects women s privacy, protect women s right to choose. we then had a reelection of ou democratic governor, but frankly, we re in a catch-22 were a lot of the legislator who sit in topeka, it doesn matter to them what thei constituents voted in august and the fact that they seem to be intent on trying to limit women s right to choose. ....
Going to be on the top of th ballot, not joe biden, not donald trump, people are going to vote and that means a crazy wonderful turnout for those wh believe that a woman has a right to control her own body. so basil, what do democrats need to do in order to capitalize on that moment? not only do they have the vote up what they want to protect abortion rights. you look at the exit polling from the midterm elections susan is absolutely right. abortion was number one issue, somewhat argue that despite th fact that republicans that hav a poor showing, and a poor turnout from the election, the democrats could ve done more when it came to kind o capitalizing on the abortion issue. how do they keep that momentum going now through th presidential election? do they make abortion th number one issue well they can make it a top issue, if i go back to tim scott s point that he wa trying to make in that interview, when he s talking about six and five and seven ....
They are trying to switch that race in particular to a top tw primary system, which woul effectively block any thir party candidates from th ballot it s all part of a scheme to defeat the popular incumbent democratic senator jon tester. republicans think he benefit from the current system, which allows third-party candidate to siphon votes from their nominees the montana s taken quite a fe steps rollback democratic norms. in 2021, the republican stat legislature tried to end the statewide elections of supreme court justices and instead hav those justices elected b district, which, of course means the legislature coul gerrymander the map in support of conservatives, the same yea they also successfully changed the states voter i.d. law to ban the use of student i.d.s from montana colleges, makin it that much more difficult fo young people to participate in local democracy. according to one republica legislator, her party change the rules because, quote college students tend to b libera ....
In montana, state republican are trying to change how the elections are run, but only fo the 2024 senate race they are trying to switch that race in particular to a top tw primary system, which woul effectively block any thir party candidates from th ballot it s all part of a scheme to defeat the popular incumbent democratic senator jon tester. republicans think he benefit from the current system, which allows third-party candidate to siphon votes from their nominees ....
Days. they will insist on passing things that begin to role back the extremism, i look out there, michigan is a great case. two most likely candidates for governor were both knocked off ballot. were not allowed to run. very much like what they are trying to do with trump. i think that michigan would not have been this democratic had they not rigged the election by knocking the two candidates off th ballot, i see a country, where the cu country is moving away from extremists. even in new york we have a republican majority in u.s. ....