she first became governor. a coalition joined together to boost this governor to her second term. and that s not all. democratic candidates for the mish hish house and senate won a majority of votes this year. putting their party in control of both legislative chambers, thanks in large part to a fair map drawn by a citizens commission instead of one crafted by republicans. gone is the decades-long advantage that republicans had built up through gerrymandering. governor whitmer has already promised to work with the state s democratic legislature to fully rescind a 1931 law that bans abortion, pass gun control legislation, and codify same-sex marriage rights. issues the republican-led legislature refused to entertain. this comes after nearly 57% of michigan voters backed a ballot measure seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. and michigan governor gretchen whitmer joins me now. thank you so much for being here. i do have to ask you, you know,
it s fixing the roads, it s these fundamentals that have always op always been front and center. i want to wipe that 1931 law off the books and i legislature will be eager to get that to my desk. what about on guns? you were able to win some traditionally red parts of your state. are you going to compromise with them? what are you going to push for? so we are now, sadly, almost on the one-year anniversary of the oxford shooting. and it was, of all the hard days i ve had to navigate my state through that was without question for me personally the hardest. i do this work because i love people and i want to support families and a family that s
they get to 2:20, to 21? did they get to a level where they got at least a little bit of a path there, as opposed to the idea of a one seat majority. steve kornacki, thank you, we will check back with you if we have updates. the narrowest house majority of all-time is one vote. it was last seen after the midterm elections of 1930 and 1931. if you don t know, steve said the final margin for this next house, but as of now, nbc news predicts a narrow republican majority of about 220 seats to 2:15. we re still waiting on the official call, but as we prepare for this, and as washington does as well, now is the time when every republican in washington starts bowling kevin mccarthy. mccarthy is currently the republican leader, so he has all but guaranteed to because speaker of the house on january, when the new mostly, because anyone else capable of doing the job is, well, smart enough not to want to at this point. as republican congressman dan
will emit relates it. this is how to protect our democracy. i don t ask you one last question about choice. the state constitution amendments to protect a woman s right to choose, that passed in this last election. the 1931 zombie law is still, i, believe it still on the books. and you said that you want to get rid of that. even those no longer operative, i think a lot of american woman would see these s of laws torn up, and, then see these laws torn up and burnt, throw away in the dust and of history. when you think you take that care? that taking care of those books as it were? i think as soon as i get sworn in for my second term, when you legislature comes in, not only will we wipe that off the bucks, but maybe a lot of zombie laws that are sitting there, latent, that could pose a a threat based on the spring court continues to do in terms of a voting our rights. so we are storing the loss, we will be cleaning them up, these that president assessors should have done, we will tak
democracy. i don t ask you one last question about choice. the state constitution amendments to protect a woman s right to choose, that passed in this last election. the 1931 zombie law is still, i believe, it still on the books. and you said that you want to get rid of that. even those no longer operative, i think a lot of american woman would see these s of laws torn up, and, then see these laws torn up and burnt, throw away in the dust and of history. when you think you take that care? that taking care of those books as it were? i think as soon as i get sworn in for my second term, when you legislature comes in, not only will we wipe that off the bucks, but maybe a lot of zombie laws that are sitting there, latent, that could pose a a threat based on the spring court continues to do in terms of a voting our rights. so we are storing the loss, we will be cleaning them up, these that president assessors should have done, we will take care of it. get rid of snobby laws! that is a