polling that shows that voters who want to protect abortion rights are much more motivated to get out to the polls in 2022 than those who are antiabortion. and that is just in numbers back. candidates are saying up and down the ballot we are also seeing governor brian kemp really being used by state democrats as a motivating factor to get all sorts of candidates, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, they re pushing these messages that he s antiabortion and therefore democratic voters should vote for their candidates up and all the way down the ballots, specifically on the abortion issue and ali vitali, on a abortion messaging undeniably affect i wonder what you are taking away from the results as we move forward to november? look, i think, on the abortion issue, women are now central to this conversation. and of course that is always through every election cycle. but the fact that, right now, you are seeing this moment
and and where a couple months ago a lot of them on capitol hill felt a little bit like dead man walking and it seems as though this abortion messaging is going to be that shift in narrative. mark, let s talk about florida. we saw val demings win, saw charlie crist win. both of familiar faces right now. would you say the democrats were looking for safer people to run against two high-profile republicans? demings is not as well known as crist. crist has won i think seven times since 1998 under three different party banners. he s a known commodity. and his opponent in the democratic primary for governor, nikki freed, she didn t rauz the
word choices harmful. carley: stop it. todd: tweeting an image from the organization and tells the dos and don ts in abortion messaging with the first word under harmful category, see it with me, carly, choice. carley: why? todd: some point to the irony of the tweet and one user says choice is now considered harmful language by the pro-choice. carley: i don t get it but i wouldn t get it because i m not crazy. todd: exactly. i think you summarized it. carley: i m allowed to say it. todd: or not say it. because again you have the choice unlike the pro-choice. carley: shall we press forward? todd: no, i was having fun with it. carley: less than a year ago merrick garland insisted parents were not being targeted by the doj. you may remember this. i can t imagine any circumstance in which the
that wrote some of his own party are wondering whether they need a message at all besides resistance. the dustup comes as the chair of the house campaign saying his party should be willing to support candidates who oppose abortion rights, setting off some prominent progressives. the pro-choice group tweeting that any compromise is akin to allowing a far right antiwar antidemocratic force to the democratic party so that they can write laws that control women. writer lauren duka adding that this will be a betrayal of every woman who has ever supported the democratic party. joining us now, most of dana. and a senior fellow at new leaders council, and a fox news contributor. i wanted to talk about the abortion messaging for a second. because richard, the man in charge who is basically the one for the democrats trying to make sure that the democrats can win some house seats said, look, we should be open to the fact that