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justice. plus, joe biden s primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbi s search of donald trump s mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book and that its investigation should continue full speed ahead. team trump, though, is objecting and asking a judge to name a special master. that s an independent third party to review the materials taken from the former president s hotel, home and office. the hearing is before a trump-appointed judge who is already on record leaning in favor of a special master. team trump last night responded to a detailed government filing asserting that trump had no standing to ask for a special master ....
But this sarah palin, obviously a nationally known candidate, a celebrity, loses this race. but alaska now gets a democrat for the first time in nearly 50 years. democrats are ecstatic. here s what peltola told cnn about the abortion interview. she said he should saw abortion rights as a key issue in the race. alaska despite its republican leanings, has a libertarian bent. we re very much covetous of our freedoms of privacy. democrats are hoping this is a big issue for them, and they believe because look at this, democrats have now outperformed their 2020 margins in all five special elections held since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade back in june. peltola s overperformance is the biggest yet. turned a state donald trump won by ten points in 2020 to a three-point win. in alaska, in nebraska, in minnesota, in two new york districts this issue has worked for democrats. it really has. and i think the question for democrats is going to be a lot of these special elections had q ....
Were registering by an advantage of three points and then since dobbs has flipped to plus seven women registering in alaska. so democrats are paying attention to that. they ve seen that in a number of other states like wisconsin and michigan. and they saw it in kansas as potentially contributing to that ballot initiative there on abortion. and you see we reported about this yesterday, a number of republicans scrubbing their websites to try to moderate or lessen the impact of abortion statements. they see it too. they see what s happening. it s also sparking another round of conversations about this ranked choice vote wig a few states have. alaska trying it for the first time here. here s how it works. we can show you on the graphic. all the candidates are on the ballot. so you make your choice. right? if somebody gets 50% plus then they re declared the winner. if not, though, the top tier stays and they go back and look at the ballots. republicans are starting to complain about this. ....
Want to talk about, the economy. p democrats on the other hand want to talk about the rule of law and abortion and other issues. and it doesn t help that republicans are fighting amongst themselves also. the war between rick scott and mitch mcconnell on the senate side is an entirely other conversation for today. we spent the first year of the biden presidency talking about democrats arguing amongst themselves. as we get to the election that s a key point republicans upset about strategy where does the money go and things like that. up flex, a big political year. upset in alaska. sarah palin loses and republicans confront a troubling trend. ....
Exhaustion which disenfranchises voters, a democrat won. adam kinzinger a republican who s leaving congress and on the january 6th committee, says ranked choice voting gives voters a royce and not choice extremes on the party. the question is do more states copy in? we actually see a push to install ranked choice voting in nevada where not only republicans but also some democrats oppose the move to do this. the interesting thing to me about alaska, though, is the second choice votes here came from begich voters who clearly didn t want sarah palin, they wanted a democrat instead. so the test here for this process is how the vote total s going to shake out when they all go back in november for the general election. she has peltola four months to come to washington and say look what i ve done for you. but the ranked choice voting if you haven t followed it the advocates of it say it forces you if you re a republican to have a conversation with democrats and independents ....