medical care. joining me now is kent delaney. this means it is likely with how we re reading it that the judge says says to d.o.j. and stops this ban from going into effect? that s certainly how we read it, katie. the justice department came into court and made its case that this strict abortion law runs afoul that requires hospital to perform life-saving measures. the judge seemed to agree. in boise they noted the law requires any prosecutor to bring a case against the doctor and require her to prove in court the abortion was medically necessary. this judge expressed doubt doctors would take that list. a lawyer from the legislature countered no lawyer would bring a case involving a pregnancy complication. the justice department has asked
in the generic ballot on average into the fall of 2014. that was a wave year for republicans but it was a late building one. so that s democrats like where this is looking right now. they think the supreme court decision on abortion has really sort of excited their voters, has helped bring the generic ballot back to even. they hope is stays that way. republicans hope for a repeat of 2014 where it was a late building wave. let s also bring in some more of my sensible colleagues. we have mark murray, our senior political editor. he joins us now, and also nbc correspondent shaq brewster to explain how abortion is playing in red florida and political reporter dave wiegle has everything on new york s 19th district. you did the polling and you understand the numbers better than anyone. i m so confused. you see two-thirds of the country in our poll say the country is going in the wrong direction, about 75% roughly. when you ask them, and i don t
threats to democracy, does it mean one thing to democrats and something else to republicans? that might complicate the meaning there depending who you re asking. republicans say one third of them call the border and immigration the top issue, only 2% of democrats say that and only 3% of republicans say abortion is the top issue facing the country. democrats five times more likely than republicans to cite abortion as the top issue facing the country. republicans 15 times more likely than democrats to cite immigration on the border as the top issue facing the country. i think one other thing you can lose sight of is cost of living, jobs, economy. we separate them out here but they could arguably fall under one umbrella there, economically related. if you add them together, you d have a plurality saying either inflation or jobs in the economy clocking in as the top issue,
four months until it s vacated again and another election happens. why is it so important? why is everybody looking at it? well, there were many people looking at it until the last few weeks. this would be the third special election for congress since the dobbs decision officially came out. it leaked in may, came out at the end of june. in nebraska and then in minnesota, much more republican districts than this one, double-digit trump districts, democrats lost by single digits and they came away thinking the difference was we campaigned everywhere on abortion and in higher turnout suburbs and small cities voters came out. it stretches out in more republican areas. sullivan county republicans have added some voters. democrats have added thousands of new voters in the hudson valley close to work, all the
of the cat skills. while most new yorkers will be voting in the primary, others will be voting in a special election for the house seat vacated by tino delgato after he was appointed governor. so why this race, especially because it s for a four-month term? this is because it s most potent, for economy and crime or abortion and democracy, what ryan is running on. the democrats are hoping the closer-a than-expected red districts, along with the resounding defeat of the anti-abortion measures are not one-offs. the hard-and-fast rules don t see so hard and fast. look at our survey conducted