Brooks and Marcus on how abortion restrictions could motivate voters in November
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🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:19.2 | And we are going to shift our focus now |
| 0:21.2 | to a busy week in politics as a major abortion decision out of Arizona |
| 0:25.4 | weighs on the minds of some voters and Republicans on Capitol Hill navigate |
| 0:29.6 | their agenda with influence from Donald Trump. |
| 0:32.7 | For more, we're joined tonight by New York Times columnist David Brooks and Ruth |
| 0:36.6 | Marcus, associate editor for the Washington Post. |
| 0:39.3 | Thank you both for being here. |
| 0:41.1 | So Vice President Kamala Harris is in Arizona tonight highlighting reproductive |
| 0:45.3 | rights just days after that state Supreme Court ruled that a near total |
| 0:49.4 | abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable. Here's a bit of what she said. |
| 0:56.0 | Turning row was just the opening act, just the opening act of a larger strategy to take women's rights and freedoms, |
| 1:08.0 | part of a full-on attack state by state on reproductive freedom. |
| 1:15.0 | And we all must understand who is to blame. |
| 1:20.0 | Former President Donald Trump did this. |
| 1:24.0 | So Ruth, what do you make of this aggressive strategy by the Biden campaign to keep the abortion issue in the spotlight and pin Donald Trump as the architect of abortion |
| 1:34.0 | restrictions and bans like the one in Arizona. I think it's doubly smart. |
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