Harris Backs Ending Filibuster To Restore Abortion Rights

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ vow to gut the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin. The West Virginia independent, one of the staunchest defenders of the potent delay tactic in the Senate, told CNN on Tuesday that he wouldn’t back her candidacy now — despite signaling earlier this month he was getting ready to do so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.
0:06.4	We're here for the Premier League,
0:09.0	and the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:12.1	We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance.
0:18.0	We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.
0:27.6	Barclays, here for the land of football.
0:30.1	Tonight, a CNN exclusive, the family of Amber Thurman speaking out about her death inside of a Georgia hospital.
0:40.0	Democrats blaming on the state's abortion ban and now propelling her story
0:44.6	to the front of the presidential race. All the while Donald Trump and Republicans
0:49.0	say women wouldn't even have to worry about abortion. Family's response to that. Nicki Haley asking tonight, are you trying to lose the election?
1:09.0	I'm talking about abortion. The issue has become Donald Trump's Achilles heel.
1:14.8	And new polling suggests tonight that it's costing him some votes,
1:18.5	as he and Republicans up and down the ballot
1:20.7	struggle to land on a message to defend the fallout from the end of
1:24.6	Roe versus Wade. Case in point, the GOP Senate candidate in Ohio who said this at a
1:30.3	town hall last week in newly uncovered audio.
1:35.7	There's a lot of suburban women.
1:37.7	A lot of suburban women, they're like, listen, abortion is in.
1:41.0	If I can't have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will hope for anybody else.
1:45.0	Okay, a little crazy by the way, but especially for women that are like past 50, I'm thinking of myself.
1:51.0	It's a issue for you.
1:55.0	Well, Moreno's campaign claims it was all tongue in cheek.
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