If it's Wednesday, an abortion rights proxy fight.

Voters in Battleground, Ohio, reject a GOP-backed ballot measure,

a red alert for Republicans nationwide yet again,

as reproductive rights continues to prove it will be a key issue heading into 2024.

Plus, Trump defiant as ever in the face of three criminal indictments,

with more charges potentially coming. Georgia's district attorney prepares to present her

years-long investigation into the former president and others as soon as next week. And America's

mounting migrant crisis pushes U.S. states and cities to the brink.

Massachusetts has declared a state of emergency with asylum seekers, overwhelming state-funded shelters,

while New York City shelters are surpassing 100,000, with more buses of migrants arriving this week.

Thank you. arriving this week.

Happy Wednesday. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Chuck Todd reporting from Washington this week, voters, and yet another Republican-leaning state resoundingly rejected efforts that could be put into place that would eventually limit abortion access.

Last night, Ohio voters rejected a ballot initiative that if it had passed, would have made it more difficult to change the state's constitution.

It would have raised the number of votes necessary to enact a change

from a simple majority plus one to 60%. Republican lawmakers created the initiative known as

issue one in an attempt to make it harder for another referendum to pass in November,

one that would enshrine abortion protections into the state's constitution. Now, issue one's backers framed it as an effort to keep outside influences out of local politics,

trying to paint it as broader than abortion rights, talking about minimum wage, other things like that.

But the net effect would have changed the odds against the abortion amendment before it made it to an actual vote of the people.

So here are the results.

99% of all the vote has been counted. The voters rejected this effort, 5743. It is interesting.

In order to get it to a 60% threshold, the yes had to get to 50% plus one. But it wasn't just

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