his covid medical exemption was denied at the border when he arrived for the tournament. cnn s paula hancocks is in melbourne, australia for us right now. paula, this is stirring up a huge controversy, not just in australia but really around the world, so where do things stand right now? reporter: well, fredericka, we re less than four hours until that hearing starts. novak djokovic has had some epic battles other in melbourne. he s won the australian open nine times on the court, but clearly off the court this is very different. now he has spent four nights in this detention facility behind me. certainly not the accommodation he is used to when he comes to play in the australian open. by the end of today he could fine out if he is going to be detoward the or if he can try and defend his title. this is how we got to where we are today. novak djokovic s quest to win his 10th australian open title
mandates, miami-dade, palm beach, broward, hillsborough, osceola, and maybe orange county, they all voted against desantis in 2018. and similarly in texas, all the big counties except for tarrant county voted against abbott. so what we are seeing, i think, don here, is the crystallization of what has been a long-developing dynamic where you have this republican coalition in the sun belt states that is rooted in their dominance of preponderantly white urban areas, big metros that drive the economies in the population, and this is the moment where we re seeing the breaking point, those metros pushing back, and it s going to produce epic battles for the governorships in 2022, in georgia, florida, arizona, and maybe in texas, although it s less clear that the government will have a top tier mandate.