today on "inside politics," big wins for democrats in ohio, kentucky and virginia last night. the clear message from voters, abortion rights matter. still, big time. but will that be enough to power president biden to reelection a year from now? plus it's debate night in america. five republican candidates will take the stage in miami tonight, absent once again, the front runner. so is tonight's faceoff really just a race for second? and new reporting on the democratic divide over israel. hear when some jewish democrats are saying about members of their own party who voted against the resolution supporting israel's war against hamas. let's go behind the headlines and "inside politics." we start with last night's election results. president biden summed it up like this. he said, quote, across the country tonight, democrats won and maga lost. voters vote, polls don't. now let's go win next year. cnn political director david chalian has more from what happened last night at the magic wall. david, what did with see? what does it mean? >> as you said, abortion rights proving it is still politically poe don't in a post roe america. we saw the measure on the ballot pass pretty resoundingly. look at virginia. democrats not only held on to their control of the state senate, but they flipped control of the house of delegates as glenn youngkin was trying to seek unified republican control, he the got the exact opposite of that and the battle over abortion rights and the battle for the suburbs were playing big into that. as for that ohio ballot measure, we had an kpilt poll in ohio. i want you to take a look here. this is among independent voters and how they fsplit. 64% voted in favor of issue one enshrining abortion rights into the constitution. 36% of independents say no. white college-educated women, 65% voted yes to enshrine abortion rights into the constitution. 35% voted no. and just to show you had our brand new poll looking ahead to 2024, we asked people across the country, what's your most important issue in voting for president next year in 2024? 33% say the economy. 12% voting and election integrity, 10% gun policy, abortion is at 7%. that doesn't mean it's not politically potent. we see it doing wonders. it means when we ask voters, their most important is stunning to see 25% of americans. that's it. one quarter of them in this poll say that joe biden has the stamina and sharpness to serve. 74% say he does not. >> incredible figure there, one of many that we saw from new poll. we'll talk about a little more when you join us at the table. thank you so much. let's go to the white house, speaking of that poll. cnn's priscilla alvarez is there. so i know that the white house did you want want to talk about polls, but the fact is that there is a disconnect between what we saw last night among voters when you look at the issues, when you look at states, even red states with democrats who are not joe biden on the ballot, versus wa poll about ho voters perceive the president and potential for him to get relekked. what are they say ing in the behinding behind you? >> reporter: when asked about the polls, they say don't look at the polls. look at the results. they are feeling pretty good about how last night turned out. taken together the results in kentucky, virginia, and ohio spelled out a good night for democrats. but the question is does that translate that strong voter turnout to 2024, when president biden is on the ticket. abortion is still a key motivator. it reenforces that that is a motivate ing bringing voters ou to the polls. and president biden releases a statement last night on that ohio measure saying, quote, tonight americans are once again vote d to protect their fundamental freedoms and democracy. saying the republican agenda is out of step. the presidents also making a series of calls last night to the winners, and clearly there's fresh confidence after seeing the results yesterday and after a series of polls that spelled out a troubling sign ahead for the year to come in november. now the president is still fanning out across the country. he will be in illinois tomorrow to talk about the economy to keep selling that agenda. >> thank you so much for that. let's discuss all of this with our panel here. nia-malika henderson, david chalian and former virginia republican congresswoman barbara kom stock. thank you for being here . >> i think since donald trump came on the scene, there's been a steady stream of certain in virginia. all losing years for virginia republicans. '2 was the exception when yung won the governorship, but in '22, people went back to this maga extremism and combined with some of the more extremist on abortion with the speaker of the house kind of mike murphy reminds you of the pastor from "foot loose." so we have this picture of men from the republican party making these decisions largely for women, and there's not a conversation. they are coming in saying this is what we are going to do. they are scaring people in ohio. they are scaring people in the seven states that have abortion referendums. four of them have been red states. so the men in the republican party aren't listening. they are doubling down saying we just didn't have good messaging. we need to do more on turnout. they aren't listening that they need to step back and talk to people and come promise on thes issues and do things to help women and do more of these women involved involved in the conversation is one of the big things they haven't been doing. >> that's a concept. first of all, just because "footloose" is one of my favorite movies, the father ended up letting the daughter go to the dance. we'll see how it ends. >> so you talked about message ing. one of the things that i find most interesting, we talked about it on the show yesterday, a about the way the governor went into the the race. he wasn't on the ballot, but he was very much part of the conversation and very involved in the people who were on the ballot. they were trying to find compromise on the issue of abortion. it was a test case for whether or not the notion of saying, okay, we're going to lean into this. we're not going to run away from abortion. and we're going to say, you know what, we do want to have an abortion limit or ban, but they rebranded it as limit. 15 weeks, with exceptions. i talked to youngkin about 6:30 last night, a half hour before the polls closed, and you could already tell by his pivot where he thought that message landed. let's watch. >> this is a choice between no limits and reasonable limits. across virginia, while i know abortion is an important topic, the number one topic that i hear over and over again is how the biden economy is making life so difficult. that's why i do believe that if we can come to a common place on abortion, we can bring to virginians a reduced cost of liveing, tax relief, great jobs excellence in education, and that's what people want. >> that was really interesting in realtime. all of our ears were perking up to hear him pivot that way. to be fair, he does talk about the issues. this was not a campaign exclusively on abortion rights, but i think it shows us that it's a threshold issue for voters. you can talk about other things, but if you're going to be taking away rights or somehow infringing on people's rights, that is not going to go well. we have seen that lesson multiple times in this post dobbs world. i want more evidence they need, but to see that this is a purely politically winning issue in this post world for democrats. >> but do other things besides having these things like crossing over state lines. there's been no addressing that from republicans or the pro life movement. that's a problem. >> i just want to underscore with data, is that our viewers see what you were talking about. you talked about it internally as well. that is seven states where we have seen it on the ballot, different than virginia, this is purely on the ballot to change the constitution of the state. state after state, just like we saw last night in ohio, voters, even in the most red states, have overwhelmingly voted to enshrine abortion rights. >> yeah, because people don't want politicians, particularly male politicians, telling them when they can be moms and dads. we sort of focus on women and abortion rights, but men are interested in this too. we also separate the economy from abortion. abortion is fundamentally an economic issue. family planning is an economic issue. so it has been a loser. donald trump very much knows that it's a losing issue. he's trying to say, now we have the power to negotiate after dobbs. women and men don't want to negotiate. >> that's where men talking habit this have been a disaster. >> this morning, we heard mitt romney say something that we actually could have heard from donald trump. so remember this date and time in history. let's play what he told manu raju. >> i think we perform best when we talk to people about the cost of living and the fact that under president biden, the cost of living has gone way up. incomes have not gone up with it. we are talking about people's lives, we win. when we're talking about the flexion 2020 or talking about highly divisive issues, it can be pretty difficult for us. >> it's so interest ing to hear mitt romney say this. first failed attempt in the republican nomination, he was courting gel calls in iowa, he was leaning into cultural issues. but as we have learned in the con sen us, he's trying to course correct where the republican party is. >> standby. coming up, we're going to talk about what's going to happen tonight. five republican presidential hopefuls will face-off in miami. we're going to take a look at what's on the line in this third presidential gop debate. plus ivanka trump under oath. she's on the witness stand right now atat her fatheher's civil l trtrial. debate night tonight, but is it the battle? five republican candidates will face-off in the third gop primary debate. it won't be on the stage. donald trump, who according to the latest poll, is just so far ahead of the rest of the field, it's almost impossible to believe. 40 points. we'll talk about the specifics in a second, but let's get to miami. jeff zeleny is there. what are you hearing from sources from the campaigns who are showing up tonight? >> we know that with five candidates on the stage, there are going to be more of an opportunity to engage with one another. and this debate is not happening in a vacuum. the results of last night's election, which you have been talking about throughout the broadcast, are certainly going to come front and center in tonight's debate. what i mean by that first and foremost is abortion . we have heard nikki haley trying to find a consensus. last night chris christie talked about how republicans need to find a new way. right here in florida, ron desantis has signed a six-week abortion ban. so there are real differences between these republican cand candidates. so that's one thing that we can expect them to engage on. also foreign policy. this is the first debate that has happened since the war with israel and hamas. so look for the differences in policy view points on that to also come front and center. but the bottom line is all the campaigns i'm speaking to, they say they are going to split their time between trying to compare and contrast with one another and also go after the former president. there are some openings on israel, on abortion a as well. but the reality is time is running short for the candidates to emerge as the leading alternative to one another and to show republican voters that donald trump can be stopped. but one thing, as we have seen so many polls in the last several days, an argument has been taken away from some of these candidates that trump can't win. the polls say he can. that erases one of the big selling points for several of these republican rivals. >> thank you. i'll see you in a few hours down in miami. appreciate that reporting. the panel is back with me. you were shake ing your head. i think it was already established in the first segment. you're not a big fan of donald trump. and let's put on the screen the specifics from the new cnn poll about where the republican field is. look at that. 61% and the closest to him is ron desantis at 17. >> last night, we didn't talk about the kentucky race, but the kentucky race was the biggest trump endorsement in a big red state. he went all in in the primary being a trump ghie. then all in. so he was an attorney general. he got elected statewide. now you have a real star in andy bes beshear. >> the biggest republican vote getter statewide was the nonelection denier secretary of state. he beat maga in the primary. it can be done. brad raffensperger proved that in georgia. >> trump is hiding. if they don't take trump on, there's no point. you're playing for second place. >> isn't that what is happening? on that margin, the contest not just among republicans, but republicans versus the incumbent democrat and how they would fair, nikki haley is plus 6. donald trump, plus 4. ron desantis, plus 2. >> donald trump and nikki haley in the poll have leads outside the margin of error. and ron desantis, there's no clear lead they are that race. that's within the margin of error. he and joe biden. and this is what jeff was just saying. this roberts that electability argument. simply saying donald trump can't win. now we have been seeing a bunch of polls suggesting he can. our poll is not great news for donald trump. he's remarkably unpopular. he's obviously a deeply flawed. he got a lot stronger. so definitely his legal challenges have had an issue of fortifying his base, which is a key component to winning elections. and right now, joe biden is hurting among some of the factors. so he needs this contrast campaign to fully engage to start trying to fortify his own base. >> there hasn't been a consistent, coherent campaign against donald trump in three years. there will be, at sol point. so in some ways, he's in a courtroom at this point or his daughter is there. he's there too. there will be a campaign. if the numbers look like that, if 23% of african-american voters are still saying they are going to pull the lever for donald trump after a billion-dollar campaign, that will be a surprise. >> now given the fact that we are going to see a debate tonight and we are going to see some pretty aggressive language, for donald trump, but also among the republicans on the stage towards one another. let's get a preview based on what we have been seeing from the ads. these are ron desantis and nikki haley. >> he may create sol jobs in that industry, but he probably cost more jobs overall. >> what a you don't need is a president against fracking. he's against drilling. >> it's not true. >> governor nikki haley helped the chinese company set up shop five miles from our base. on land she gave them where they fly china's flag, serve china's interests, dangerously close. too dangerouses to lead. >> what to you think is going to be the most effective tonight on that stage? >> that's a replay of 2016. the attack for the non-trump candidates. the thing to attack is a convicted donald trump, which as a prosecutor, chris christie can point out most likely one of the four indictments. >> are they wasting their time going after each other. >> all they are doing is making trump stronger. it's the replay. >> they haven't really moved. desantis is less popular than he was when he announced on twitter. nikki haley has moved up a little bit. 10%. that's all you're getting and you're the next big hope to go one-on-one with donald trump. the base loves donald trump. they might love him more this go around than they did last go around. that's just the reality. i don't think much is going to change on the debate stage. >> the race has been remarkably stable. the biggest movement that we have seen in this race came in the immediate aftermath of his first criminal indictment in new york. that's when his base started fortifying. desantis was not proving to be all that great. that was the last time there's been actual movement in the race. >> this was when most of the candidates also poor donald, these are mean people attacking him. that's not working. that's making you an afterthought. >> such a great conversation. i learned so much. appreciate it. don't go anywhere. after the debate tonight, you'll get critical context and analysis. anderson cooper and i will be hosting republican presidential debate post debate analysis. say that five times fast. live tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. right now, former president trump's eldest daughter ivanka trump is on the stand at her father's civil fraud trial in myo. her testimony follows appearances by her brothers don jr. and eric, and monday's it'sy exchanges between the judge and her father. paula reid has been following the case. what is it looking like right now as ivanka is on the stand? >> reporter: far less contentious than when her father or brothers took the witness stand. but today the questions really focused on her time at the trump organization. she left the family business in 2017, when she went to work at the white house. she oversaw some projects. one line of questioning was really focused on securing financing for his resorts and spa in florida. and in one exchange, she was interacting with a representative from deutsche bank, and they were offering some favorable terms for a loan for a high worth individual, but it would require her father to maintain a net worth of $3 billion. ivanka suggest ed lowering that to $2 billion. they settled on $2.5. but that exchange is significant because at the heart of this case is the allegation the former president was not being accurate or honest about his true net worth. so the fact that ivanka was pushing to lower that threshold is notable. they also asked her about an apartment that she had in one of her father's buildings. it had a purchase option of $8.5 million, but on her father's financial statements, it have valued at $20.8 million. she tried to distance herself from that valuation. so far, these questions have been very technical. they have been focused on the substance of the case. no real chaos or contentious exchanges. this is expected to go for a little bit longer and while there are no cameras in the courtroom, our colleagues are giving live updates so we now how much information they are getting from it her. >> so interesting. thank you so much. appreciate it. and the house voted to censor congresswoman ra sheet ta talib over her comments. it's the tip of the'sberg as democrats become increasingly more and more divided over the israel-hamas war. we'll go live to capitol hill for new reporting, nexext. c'mon, we're right there. c'mon baby. it's the only we need. go, go, go, go! ah! touchdown baby! -touchdown! are your neighbors watching the same game? yeah, my 5g home internet delays the game a bit. but you get used to it. try these. they're noise cancelling earmuffs. i stole them from an airport. it's always something with you, man. great! solid! -greek salad? exactly! don't delay the game with verizon or t-mobile 5g home internet. catch it on the xfinity 10g network. last night the house voted to censor ra sheet da talib over statements considered flatly anti-semitic. like using the phrase from the river to sea in a controversial video she tweeted out last week. that phrase is perceived by jujus as a limitation nation of the jewish state of israel, which sits between the river and the sea. just before the vote, the first palestinian member of congress, spoke on the house floor. >> i can't believe i have to say this, but palestinian people are not disposable. we are human beings just like anyone else. my grandmother, like all palestinians, just wants to live her life with freedom and human dignity we all deserve. the cries of the children sound no different to me. i don't understand. is why the cries o'palestinians sound different to you all? >> 22 democrats joined with republicans to censure her. because of what they see as comments that tlaib made that incite a red hot atmosphere when it comes to spiking jew hate in measuring. manu raju joins us live from capitol hill. i know you have been doing some reporting on the deepening divide in the democratic party about this issue. what are you hearing. >> reporter: as this war carries on, a debate is happening along regional lines of very much alongth nick lines in the house democratic caucus. not just for what we saw with the members voting to censure her, but whether to express support for israel itself. there should be calls for a cease-fire. members muslim americans. many don't want the to go as far as where joe biden is on this issue. it underscores the larger debate over the handling of this. we are learning about the things that are happening behind the scenes. one of which was a comment made by debbie wasserman schultz. she's a jewish democrat. she was pushing for a resolution that was adopted on a bipartisan basis on the house floor just a couple weeks ago to reaffirm support for the united states for its war against israel. i asked her about that resident are lugs and about democrats who may vote against it. she had some sharp remarks about those democrats, which set off an uproar. >> i would hope all members would support a residolution th condemns terrorism. the brutal attacks that were perpetrated against the israeli people that were killed. they took 222. someone who votes against this i would think doesn't have a soul. >> reporter: that comment prompted outrage among key democrats and particularly the 15 who vote d against that measure. some of them, all of them minorities. some of them muslim americans and some braving this direct ly the democratic leader. they tried to get members on the same page as this divide has been growing. we're told one of the members even talked to her and was concerned that that is a racial trope that wasn't used calling someone soulless, something that could be interpreted negatively among african-american members in particular. she indicated she was not aware of that, where she made that dment comment, but all showing the divide that's just persisting as this work carries on the debate in the democratic party that's spilling out into public view, but a private debate as well. >> it runs so deep ask this has been sort of bubbling tension, particularly among those in the progressive left for some time. as you just reported, it is just overflowing now not just in congress, but on the streets. thank you so much for your reporting. appreciate it. coming up, democrats scored a big win in ohio yesterday on abortion rights. sherrod brown, can he recreate that coalition and what is becoming a red state? we'll talk to him. and saying good-bye, washington, d.c. is losing three of its most famous residents today. you see one of them there. we'll tell you why, coming up. voters sent a clear message last night and that is abortion rights matter. in ohio voters decided to enshrine rights in the state constitution. a solid majority voted yes in a state controlled by republicans. joining me now is senator sherrod brown of ohio, who is up for reelection next year in 2024. thank you for joining me. so we talked about that ballot measure that did win overwhelmingly. you are on the ballot next year. it's one of the toughest senate races in the country. i don't need to tell you that. the dynamic next year will be different than what we saw yesterday. that won't be on the ballot. trump and biden will be. how will all of this affect your race? >> first, most importantly, look what happened. women and men spoke resoundingly that ohio voters, conservative, liberal voters said that women and their doctors should make these decisions, not politicians. the vote was overwhelming. it was astounding how strongs it was. and i think you start with that. you also consider in this that the republican establishment, the politicians in the state house, they spent at least $18 million for a special election to try to rig this election back in august. they changed the ballot language. 700,000 people signed petitions with specific language and the powers that be, the secretary of state, saying this was about abortion changed the language of the petition of the ballot language. they made it harder to vote. you have an i.d. card or central state, an i.d. you can't vote with that i.d. issued by a state university. they did all that. and people still saw through it. there was a strong vote. it would have been stronger if they tried to rig it. that tells you a lot about the strength of the view that women should make these decisions with their doctors rather than the state legislators. >> i think that was clear in what we saw in the numbers knight. but again looking ahead and understanding far better than i where the electorate is in ohio, and that is an electorate that voted for trump in 2020 by 8 points. you're going to need some trump voters to vote for you. and that's the only way you can get reelected. so what's your message to them? >> back to this issue, republicans in the senate primary in august or march, to be the nominee, all three of them ed advocated for a nationa ban on abortion if they get elected to the senate. so we see they are out of touch there. we'll contrast my values and what we stand for with the extremism of republicans on this issue. >> so you're going to be leading still with this issue? >> i didn't say i'm going to lead it w it. i'm going to make the contrast of a lot of things. i win in ohio for a lot of reasons. one of the reasons is i take on interest group. i took on the railroads after they did the damage in east palestine. i took on the drug companies. we have a cap of $35 on insulin and $2,000 per year out of pocket drug costs. i have taken on the oil industry and the corporations that outsource trade. that's why i do well among working voters the last thing i say is i wear this pin, it's a depiction of a canary in the bird cage. they didn't have unions in those days strong enough or government that cared enough to protect them. my colleagues when you come to the senate you get this fancy pin. that they put on the lapel and says i'm important. i wore that for a couple days and i put my canary pin back on because it help mess focus on women's rights and workers and civil rights. it helps me do this job and keep in mind why i'm there and whom i'm fighting for. >> and senator, really all of the things you just said, maybe he wear the canary pin, but all of the things you said is the kind of thing that president biden is saying and he's running on. all the polls show that he's having a very hard time getting traction. are you worried that what you just said, your message for sherrod brown will not be enough to win over voters in this polarized environment, particularly when you're going to be on the same ballot as joe biden in ohio? >> i'm really not. i don't think a lot about polls. i certainly don't think about polls in other races because my focus is on the dignity of work. it's making sure that i keep that focus on fighting for w workers who stand up against interest groups. that takes care of itself. i will certainly run a campaign in the next 12 months, but if i do this job right and plan to do this job, people know i mean it when i stand up against both parties on trade agreements. people know i mean it when i take on wall street. people know i mean it when i took on the they laid off a third workers. there's no surprise that way. >> let me ask you this. tim ryan, who you know, your fellow democrat who ran in your state statewide, he told cnn this week that perhaps it's time for the democrats to move in a different direction at the top of the ticket meaning joe biden should step aside and let somebody else run. would that help you? is that something that you agree with? >> i don't pay attention to commentary. >> what do you think? >> i think he will be the nominee. i think he will win. i think elections are about two th things. the contrast in terms of what happened last night, the contrast between women making their own decision and candidates that say national abortion ban and candidates that say people don't see the political spectrum as left to right. he's too liberal or conservative. they see it as whose pseudoare you on. people know i'm on their side. whether it's a drug company issue, whether it's trade, whether it's job creation, i'm proud of what i have done. i will continue to fight those interest groups. >> you're not worried that your party has a joe biden problem? >> every party has a problem. i know how to speak to ohio workers. i don't worry about what people in other states orest coast or are saying about a president or former president and their vulnerabilities. every >> every candidate has vulnerabilities and i will continue to do what i need to do. >> senator sherrod brown, appreciate it. thank you so much for joining me. nice to see you. >> thanks, dana. nice to be with you. thank you. >> coming up you're looking at live pictures from dulles airport. washington, d.c.'s three pandas are about to take off on the panda express for a 19-hour journey back to china. we'll tell you why, coming up. you want to be able to provide your child with 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