the disconnect with his position now is he says he supports abortion up to 15 weeks with some restrictions and some various rule. on one hand, during the primary, he was against abortion after conception, period, full stop, because he supported that personhood law. now, there s this 15-week language he is embracing. when we reached out to the campaign, they defined the personhood law differently from the way it is defined in arizona. there is a law there that has been put on hold by a judge that says life begins at conception. also, there is a federal bill in congress from republicans that also defines person hoodpersonh beginning at conception. i was looking at twitter and i saw his ad move. i clicked it and thought, wow, this is interesting. there s basically a republican leading off by calling his democrat a liar, you know, typical, both sides accuse each other of that. but in this ad from a very conservative candidate, i was listening to him basically
and anger that i feel about forcing a child to give birth under those circumstances. blake masters can try to spin what he has done, but women know better. they know that i mean, i know i m jumping to the next story, but i m so angry about this creepy blake masters and what he is trying to pull off against mark kelly in arizona. they re all going to try to do it, but i think people have figured out what they re up to. i think it may be, in fact, what saves the midterms for the democratic party this year. we ll get to the details of the blake masters story in a second. victoria, this was not a slip of the tongue or an outlier of a comment for t du tudor dixon in michigan. she said previously the 14-year-old being raped is a, quote, perfect example of why they need to ban abortion. she s defended that, too, when asked about it. we don t point to her as extreme case. we know that even just this week
politicians have really not figured out how to talk about this or behave in this post dobbs environment. again, 50 years of political legal reality shifting, and it s caught a lot of people flat-footed. yeah, it s not a theoretical debate anymore. it s real. right. we got new poll numbers into us. democratic governor gretchen whitmer in michigan has a strong lead over republican tudor dixon in the race for governor. the epic-mra poll released this morning shows if the election were held down, 50% of respondents would vote for whitmer, while 39% for dixon. 11% still undecided. here is what tudor dixon on the topic of abortion told a station in detroit, on why she opposes the idea of allowing teenage rape victims to receive abortions. i ve talked to some other legislators about this, and
describe himself in other terms and in other races as essentially pro-choice in some circumstances. i thought, huh, let me go to his website. i saw the personhood stuff. i was like, wow, this is different. my colleague, alan smith, and i teamed up and made some calls. right after alan called the campaign for blake masters, suddenly, the website changed. but we figured that would happen, so we screen-capped it ahead of time. it is a good example, as we pointed out in our story and you pointed out here, abortion is problematic currently for republicans. chuck coughlin, a republican pollster in arizona, says his polling shows masters down by ten points to mark kelly. he attributes a good amount of that movement to abortion, not just because of the policy in and of itself, but it is a gateway issue for democrats to frame republicans as being too extreme. according to coughlin s polling, you not only have women who disproportionately don t like masters, but you also have
in texas and other states, that new trigger laws went into effect that do, in fact, give no exception for rape or abortion. this is happening across the country in the wake of the roe decision. one word, willie, and that is overreach. what we have seen with the overturning of roe v. wade and the trigger laws across the country is this extreme position that we saw in the comments by tudor dixon. whereas, when you dig into the numbers of support for abortion rights, you do see a variation based on the term, how many weeks into a pregnancy. you do start to see a decrease in that support when you get up to the second trimester, 24 weeks. but when you re still in the first trimester or even not all the way through the second, you still see a plurality of americans supporting the right to a legal abortion in all or most cases. i think that when we hear those comments, such as those of tudor