i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. i want to take you back to june 2020. to the supreme court had just overturned roe v. wade, striking down the constitutional right to an abortion in this country. the decision immediately left millions of americans without access to reproductive rights or reproductive care. in states where that care was protected, millions more wondered if it was just a matter of time until a federal ban would go into effect. some republicans feared and electoral disaster in the coming months were quick to throw cold water on that theory, claiming the court s decision would simply send the issue back to the states. effectively these gop lawmakers had a national ban on abortion, that would never happen here. is republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina, just last month. i ve been consistent. i think states should decide the issue of marriage and states should decide the issue of abortion. i have respect for south carolina. south carolina vote
failed. it felt because he sensed maga extremist groups to school boards all across the state of florida, to bring hate, to scream, to yell at our board members, to try to infiltrate and put these weird indoctrination, ideologies, into our school board system, because he is scared, he is scared of differences, of being inclusive, of being tolerant, of showing people empathy. and he is the wrong leader. he is not appropriate for the state, or for any place in, you know, in my mind, my opinion. and people have to be able to see that, these wargames, these mind games where that he is playing, where he s trying to, you know, psychologically create fear in communities, it s not okay. and that we are better than that, and that s why, you know, people have to be really informed about who they are voting for in november. we ll see how that plays out. karla hernandez, you lieutenant governor candidate for the great state of florida, thank you so much this evening. i greatly apprecia
vineyard, as a political stunt, as a file political stunt. how come the white house and the democrats breakthrough to voters, when republicans keep pulling these stacks of stunts? yeah, i mean, it is really kind of a moral argument i think that needs to be made. i mean, governor desantis, really, represents the worst of humanity. and you know, the people of martha s vineyard really represent the best of it. i went down to the border with the first lady to asylum camp during the campaign. and it showed me that elections have real consequences. and when president trump put in place that-in mexico policy, for people who were fleeing violence, awful, awful violence, awful, awful conditions, it was heartbreaking, and then, to see governor desantis play politics,
and when president trump put in place the remain in mexico policy, for people who were fleeing violence, awful, awful violence, awful, awful conditions, it was heartbreaking, and then, to see governor desantis play politics, and you know, use a depraved political stunt in order to getting notoriety, getting publicity, whatever is trying to do. it s really disgusting. melissa, obviously, the dobbs decision mobilized many americans, as we saw, and some of these elections, because they can crystallized and a lot of people s mind what the supreme court and the republican party was trying to do to women s rights in this country. do you believe that, you know, stunts like what ron desantis is doing could also mobilize, at the same time, voters out ahead of the midterms? i think it s good.