Will Dems’ success this week boost Biden in 2024?

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🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It was Election Day in several states this week. Voters hit the polls to decide on abortion as a constitutional right in Ohio. Kentucky and Mississippi made their choice for governor. And every state legislative seat in Virginia was up for grabs. Democrats saw favorable results across the board. Do those results tell us more about Biden’s chances in 2024, or the struggles Republicans must overcome to get their message across?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone welcome to left right and center. I am David Green and I got to say my
0:06.9	favorite time to talk about politics is when you the voters have actually spoken
0:12.1	and voted.
0:13.0	So we're not talking about hypotheticals or making predictions today.
0:17.0	We're talking about the choices that you, the voters, actually made this week.
0:21.0	Both Moelathi and Sarah Isker, no moments like this very well. Mo has worked on many
0:25.8	a Democratic campaign. Same goes for Sarah on the Republican side, so I guess we can just dig in, right?
0:33.0	Let's do it. Let's do it.
0:34.0	Let's do it.
0:35.0	Okay, we're not going to talk about Mississippi.
0:37.0	That is a race that I thought was going to be close.
0:40.0	Four and a half point.
0:42.0	Yeah, deep red state and a Democrat
0:44.2	was looked like he was going to make it a thing and didn't happen. So this is me
0:48.1	falling in my sword and saying the two of you were right that race went as we
0:50.8	expected. Thank you. That felt good. Yeah, good. Podcast done. Yeah, yeah, over. You're always
0:57.0	right. Well, so there was this big vote on abortion in Ohio. There was a governor's race in Kentucky where a Democratic incumbent won in, I guess we could say by doing all he could to separate his race from President Biden's own re-election, which is interesting.
1:14.4	But I know you both, both of you have been pushing for weeks now to talk about the state of
1:20.2	Virginia.
1:21.2	And just so everyone understands every seat in the Virginia State
1:24.2	legislature was up for grabs this Tuesday. Republicans were really hoping to
1:29.4	condense their power behind Governor Glenn Yunken. Junken was deeply involved in rallying support to do that.
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