but your colleague, senator richard blumenthal. we caught up with him. he said he won t support that bill. listen. i think giving that power to politicians in robes is as bad as giving to it state legislatures because they ve indicated they will cut back and eliminate those rights. are you at all concerned that the work that you and your colleagues and the president are doing is moot as long as there is a supreme court and legislatures that want to do away with it? democrats have been fighting since before the decision by the supreme court to protect a woman s right to an abortion. if that s their choice, and the rights abortion, it shouldn t be a state by state right. it should be codified into federal law. we tried that. republicans blocked it. we tried the make it clear that women have the right to make it across state lines to get the care they need.
hypotheticals. if we just look at the big categories here. can we take significant action to bring down the cost of health care? not just prescription drugs but the access to health care including the subsidies, that would be a huge win. not just for us but for working families across the country. in the process, making an historic investment in addressing climate change. it is not just wildfires in california and elsewhere in the west. we look at the flooding happening in kentucky. this is less than a year from when they had the devastating tornadoes in kentucky, outside of, quote, unquote, tornado season. extreme weather events are happening. if weather patterns are changing, it is because our climate is changing and we have to do something about it. let me ask you about a lot of the wheel in motion as it relates to access to abortion. you have the president s executive order. you have the ability to protect doctors. you have senator tim kaine that would codify under roe.
yes on the amendment. in other words, who voted against keeping the abortion access that is in kansas in place. do you see this as a potential warning sign to republicans across the country that their constituency should not be defined by anti-abortion values? yes, it is really consistent, as well as attitudes about, the supreme court overturn roe v. wade. most polls show 60 to 65% of americans said they disagreed with the supreme court s decision on that. so when we end up seeing numbers like we did on the back of envelope math about, 15 to 20% of republicans or people who participated in the republican primaries last night ended up voting for the side supporting abortion rights on that toogsal amendment. that to me is very consistent with a lot of polling that abortion isn t the 50/50 issue that you and i often see when we see democrat versus republican. biden versus trump.
on abortion. so there is there s polling whether people will vote solely for if they re a republican, if they re going to vote for a democrat on abortion if they believe that abortion rights should be upheld. so it but we have seen that because of voter registration going up, because of the turnout that you mentioned, this could potentially help democrats around the margin. i think they re going to look at this is going to be a race-by-race situation. what i saw in terms of turnout was that it s already dwarfed the turnout of the 2020 presidential primary. i mean, that s that shows something. and a republican strategist in kansas put it this way to the wall street journal, the result tonight is a big deal. there was no major contested democratic primaries to drive turnout, and the amendment still failed resoundingly. if republicans think the issue of abortion isn t on the mind of voters, tonight s results should put them on notice. you see that and you think what? well,
republicans have blocked that. we ve tried to codify the right to contraception. republicans have blocked that. republicans have continued to obstruct for health care providers in states where abortion is legal. and so we re continuing the fight here in congress. but i am absolutely encouraged by the voters of kansas who turned out in record numbers yesterday to uphold the right in the state of kansas. i think it is a strong message that everybody should lead as we approach the november elections. before i let you go, in the limited time we have left. a quick lightning round. one as it relates to the party at large. the other is something important to you in california. two top house democrats, jerry nadler and carol maloney have been forced into a face-off because of the redistricting. there were some interesting responses last night when it came to president biden and 2024. i want the play a piece of it. should president biden run again in 2024? too early to safety it