Today we're going to talk about Democrats finally seizing on a winning formula just in time for

2024, and I interview Congressman Jamie Raskin about the Trump disqualification case in Colorado,

Speaker Johnson's embrace of the Biden impeachment effort and had to best engage

with hesitant Democrats ahead of 2024.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

We've got a pretty seismic update with Democrats finally seizing on a winning

formula heading into 2024. So up to now when abortion rights have been on the

ballot, Democrats have won. Just weeks ago in this off-year election cycle,

voters in Ohio voted to enshrine

abortion rights into the state constitution in a state that's been trending

away from Democrats for a decade. On the same day, voters in Virginia rejected

Governor Glenn Youngkins proposed 15-week abortion ban by stripping him of control of both chambers of the state legislature.

Pennsylvania voters overwhelmingly elected a liberal state Supreme Court justice in a race that was largely predicated on abortion.

So that was the 2023 election cycle.

Going back to the midterms in 22, voters in California, Michigan, and Vermont passed

a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion.

Voters in Kentucky and Kansas rejected amending their state

constitutions to include language opposing abortion protections.

And voters in Montana rejected a measure threatening medical workers with criminal charges if they didn't intervene

in attempted abortions, all of which is to say, in the nearly dozen elections with abortion,

either directly or indirectly on the ballot, Democrats and the pro-choice contingent have won all of them.

Their streak is unbroken regardless of how otherwise conservative a state is.

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