they were hoping that the abortion bill we saw come out in new york which expanded access for abortions into a later into the pregnancy, they wanted to use that against democrats. and now the passage of these laws meets southern states in missouri as well as alabama turned that on its head. we saw mccarthy say a few days ago he thought the alabama bill went too far. but a lot of house republicans didn t really have an answer about the alabama bill. some tried to say, oh, i need to be briefed on it. it will be difficult for them as this progresses and as 2020 democrats, the presidential candidate is trying to latch on to this. liz, as we looked at the 2016 campaign, we saw the evolution of the never trump republican. we saw obviously a substantial amount of republican support for this guy who happens to be in the white house tonight. and we heard from interviews with trump voters in the field,
that these are supreme court bound test cases. as a matter of politics, though, pick your poll. this issue is either 60/40 underwater for their side. it is either 80/20. how are they going to run under the republican banner on an issue like this if it permeates down through the tickets to statewide elections. right. so i think we could see a shift in the way republicans are talking about these bills because even though it hadn t broken through in the 2020 presidential election race until this week, it was something that house republicans very much wanted to make a big deal in their campaigns heading into 2020. they were hoping that the abortion bill we saw come out in new york which expanded access for abortions into a later into the pregnancy, they wanted to use that against democrats. and now the passage of these laws meets southern states in