If Abortion Access Wins on the Ballot, Will Democrats?
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🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:17.8 | Donald Trump and Kamala Harris pin their hopes on different groups as they make their final |
| 0:23.1 | pitches in swing states. Plus, why victories for abortion rights supporters tomorrow is no guarantee |
| 0:29.8 | of a blue wave. This is going to be a referendum on that question, whether abortion cannot |
| 0:34.9 | just win ballot measure races, but whether it can deliver Democrats, |
| 0:38.8 | other races up and down the ballot. What we've discovered is there's a bit of an independent |
| 0:43.0 | streak in the American electorate. And oil prices rise after Iran warns of a stronger response |
| 0:49.6 | to Israel's latest attack. It's Monday, November 4th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:55.3 | and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your |
| 1:00.5 | world today. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final push for votes today |
| 1:07.5 | ahead of Tuesday's election, with Harris concentrating her focus on Pennsylvania |
| 1:12.4 | with three rallies across the state, while Trump visits Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Michigan. |
| 1:19.0 | Journal reporter Michelle Hackman says that in a race defined by a stark gender gap, |
| 1:24.2 | Trump is pinning his hopes on disaffected men, while Harris is doing the same with |
| 1:29.0 | particularly moderate and independent female voters. |
| 1:32.7 | Gender has become one of the most defining features of this election to the point where |
| 1:37.7 | your gender is probably more predictive than almost any other factor of whether you're going |
| 1:42.5 | to vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. |
| 1:45.1 | The campaigns know that. Obviously for women, one of the big reasons is abortion and sort of the |
| 1:51.5 | landscape after Rove is overturned. And you see Kamala Harris talking constantly about abortion. |
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