steve, there is nothing better than seeing you on election night. give us an update. yes. a lot still going on. and let s start in mississippi. and the governor s race in mississippi. 2 now two-thirds of the vote in. republican incumbent tate reeves leading brandon presley by 11 points. two key points i think as you look at these numbers. number one is we ve been waiting all night for the largest county in the state that s hines county where the state capitol of jackson is, it s a core overwhelming democratic county. they just started reporting the polls. we re open later there because there were issues of ballot viability. it s 86 to basically 13 for presley. this is a big vote producing county. that s certainly an opportunity for presley to gain and for reeves to fall. in the rest of the state we ve been looking to see if there s a pattern because reeves won this race in 2019 by 5 points. we ve kind of been using that as a bench mark as results come in. is presley running
abortion, about which party gets your vote on policy. but there are also some new polls that at the same time hammer home the deep, deep alienation with the current president of the united states. you re watching cnn s special live coverage, election night in america. i m abby phillip in washington. and i m laura coates. here in new york. i m abby. if you re a democratic consultant, this should be a good night. cnn projects that kentucky s democratic governor is going to win against a rising republican star in a state donald trump carried by 26 points. now voters in red ohio approve abortion is still a very powerful motivator. tonight, cnn projects they said yes to enshrining abortion access in their constitution. and yet new cnn poll numbers confirm just how high a hurdle president biden faces with voters heading into 2024. talking about young voters, independents, black voters, latino voters. that s really the core of the biden coalition. and one year out from the president
hello and welcome to all our viewers joining us here in the united states, around the world, and streaming on cnn max. i m rosemary church. just ahead, abortion rights advocates get a major win in ohio. we ll explain how this might impact the race for the white house as we break down tuesday s election results in key states across the u.s. plus, israeli forces now say they are inside gaza city as the hostages of hamas have now been held for over a month. and g7 foreign ministers pledged to remain united as war rages in ukraine and in the middle east. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. results from key off-year elections around the u.s. have broad glimmers of hope to democrats ahead of next year s presidential showdown, and the power of abortion politics is becoming increasingly clear. in kentucky, governor andy beshear has one reelection making him one of the few democratic leaders in red or predominantly republican states, and he made
a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. ooni m max foster. it is 4:00 a.m. on the eastern u.s. coast where abortion has become a key issue for democrats who are celebrating victories in elections. kentucky s governor won re-election tuesday overcoming his trump-backed challenger. this was our victory. it was a victory that sends a loud clear message, a message that candidates should run for something and not against someone. republicans did get a win in the mississippi governor s race. incumbent tate reeves defeated his opponent, a relative of elvis presley. and abortion was not directly on the ballot, but it is believed to be a strong factor in the results. and ohio is the latest state to enshrine reproductive rights in its state s constitution with the passage of issue 1, that means that republicans won t be able to redistrict abortion access for abortion around 4 to 5 months of pregnancy. report
22nd, 24th week, the point of fetal viability, and that is the additional language that you will see exported to those red states, to the swing states, when folks try to do the ballot next year. again, in a place like south carolina, a place like arizona, a place like florida, i think you ll see language allowing for restrictions at the point of fetal viability. there is a test tonight in a red state like ohio, giving that type of provision for a prescription along with the constitutionally mandated right to an abortion. if that counts would be politically successful, it clearly is in ohio, and i think that that creates the roadmap for other states, for supporters at this next year. we are going to see a lot of playbook development this evening. i want to get into the specifics here on issue one. it was being positioned on the right as a vote of late term abortion. to be clear, if one does not allow abortions to birth on it when. what it does do is a law for abortion