voting no on what was officially called issue one which would have made it harder to amend ohio s constitution. if it had passed it would have made a huge impact on the next step which a lot of people knew was exactly what this was about this was a ballot issue coming up in november aimed at offering more abortion rights in the state, codifying abortion rights in the state. cnn senior political commentator david axelrod is joining us now. david, how far can democrats take this now? this was a huge win for them. yeah. you know, kate, you ll remember the kansas initiative back before the midterm elections in which voters there affirmed abortion rights in that state and it really foreshadowed what we saw in the mid-term elections which was a much better performance for democrats than had been anticipated by historical kind of member you
proposal called to increase the flesh hold changes from a simple diswrort 60%. its defeat paves the way for democrats to push a november ballot measure on codifying abortion rights. keep it right here because next hour we are going to talk next steps with ohio secretary of state frank la rose who helped craft the proposal to c curb the power of outside extra interest oppenheimer is filling seats. and amc theater reaping rewards. seeing profits skyrocket. americans rush to the theaters to see blockbusters barbie and oppenheimer. meanwhile the barbie movie is sparking a baby name boom. baby name.com says in the last month the site has seen 300 percent spike in severance for the name barbie and 200 percent surge for the name ken. that is so funny. steve, your grandkids and brock are going to have a whole punch
means that actually getting companies to invest in drug therapies, knowing that when the fda goes through a scientific process, it is done and nobody is going to challenge it, i think is going to become more difficult to so it would be a terrible ruling. and i m really hoping that the supreme court doesn t go there. could congress when controlled by democrats have specifically codified abortion protections. more narrowly like for the fda approval of this pill. you know it would have been subject to the same filibuster rules, and that s why i say we have to get rid of the filibuster. and at least now you know, we have a significant majority, but still not 50 votes in the senate to at least do carve outs of the filibuster for codifying abortion rights, so we are going to continue to work to get the majority. we need that we can do that in the senate, and at the same time, i think you re seeing states pushing back i mean, look at the result of the wisconsin
represents you matters. you just passed, and i want to congratulate you on a bipartisan bill you authored to investigate unsolved lynchings and civil rights cold cases. it s headed to the president s desk. it s arguably, nothing like that would have passed with your predecessors. i think about some of the opportunities that are there if there is that 51st vote. that s things like codifying abortion rights. abortion is a big deal. a george just overturned your state s six-week abortion ban. protecting voting rights, police reform, gun reform legislation. none of that has any chance, even maybe in a 50/50 senate. so are you is that the case that s being made to georgia voters, that that 51st seat might be the difference between getting those things and not? well, look, let me add, in addition to the civil rights cold case legislation that you just talked about, which passed the house yesterday and is now on its way to the president s desk, without our victories in
enough votes to pass the codification of roe v. wade, but here s what democrats could have passed had they had one more seat. ending the filibuster and codifying abortion rights. protecting voting rights, police reform, gun reform legislation, you know, even the things that are coming up soon. funding the government, not letting us go into a debt crisis. marriage equality, funding ukraine, can any of that get done even if you have 51 seats? don t you need that 52nd? this is difficult so long as we have this anti-democratic rule in the united states senate that requires you to get a super majority. our founder fathers are turning over in their graves right now. they never intended for legislation to need 60 votes. a 60% threshold in the united states senate. they designed it as something that was intentionally hard to get big things passed into law. without the 60 vote majority.