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Jonathan Capehart:

Absolutely.

And I'm going to take issue. I'm going to answer your question and take issue with what David said. I disagree that abortion is an issue that isn't top of mind.

Maybe, if you ask specifically about abortion, but when you wrap it into the overall threats to liberty, attack on liberty, voting rights, abortion rights, and other things that are happening in school libraries, that people look at that, look at what's happening in Florida, looking at what happened with the Texas decision, and see, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is not what we want.

And so, yes, this is a great issue for Democrats. But what we saw in Kansas over the summer, what we saw in Wisconsin just a couple of weeks ago, is that this is quickly not becoming a nonpartisan issue. This is becoming an issue where women who are Democrats, independents and Republicans, and particularly the Republicans might not say a whole lot, but they make their voices heard at the ballot box.

And we have seen it in two places, and I think we will continue to see that, which is why Governor DeSantis, hiding under the cover of darkness, signing in a six-week abortion ban, might play well in the only place where the red wave hit last November, but it's not going to play well if he is the candidate if he is a candidate for president or any Republican running for president in 2024.

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