and it ended up being a decisive factor in the victory for abortion rights advocates in this state. a lot of credit has to be given to cannons for constitutional freedom. they are the manu bortion rights coalition that was pushing out the vote, and they had to overcome a lot for this decisive win here. not only are registered republicans outnumbering registered democrats in the state by a nearly 2-1 margin, this is deeply conservative state. they have a democratic mayor, yes, but the last two elections they voted for president trump. but as we mentioned, this voter turnout ended up being a huge factor. the numbers we saw last night were more indicative of a general election. and credit has to be given to that kansasans for constitutional freedom. also educating voters here that they could vote. this amendment was ambiguously worded in a way that voting yes on this amendment would have stripped abortion rights. a vote no would have kept the status quo here. the state constitut
what did israel know and when did they know it? an explosive report provides an answer to both of those questions. that s tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby phillip in washington, and breaking tonight, the new york times reports that israel had the hamas attack, plan of attack more than a year before october 7th, and they chose to simply file it away. now, the consequences here were deadly, and now there is a question about if at all the war, the deadliest day in israel s history, thousands and thousands of palestinians caught in the cross fire of all those bombs if it was all preventable. the times claims that israel inte intercepted a hamas blueprint nicknamed jericho wall. it, quote, called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine gun along the boarder and gunmen to pour into israel on motorcycles and on foot. the document, according to the times circulated among israeli milita
helps me. it s a reminder why there s so many millions of voters who will never vote for them going forward so some more cautious than others. chris christie, nothing cautious about his rhetoric there, but i m curious oz if the strategy changes. i have what voters tell me they re not interested in the slug-fest, but instead, these candidates proposing their vision for america. thank you. let s dig deeper with our political commentators. alice stewart and karen finny are with me here in the situation room. what we re seeing with the poll numb respect, his base is
is rebooting yet again. now promising donors a leaner, meaner campaign. tonight all of this is happening as top republican party officials are still trying to convince the front-runner, donald trump, to show up. ronald reagan didn t do it and a lot of other people didn t do it. when you have a big lead, you don t do it. for more on this, i want to bring in cnn political commentator karen finny and matt lewi senior columnist at daily beast and author of new book, filly rich politicians. we re going to get to that book in a moment, matthew, because obviously it s a topic i think everyone can agree on. but we re learning these new details about another reset that the desantis campaign is trying. it involves smaller events, getting him in front of voters in these early states like iowa and south carolina and kind of what they say is embracing this underdog mentality. the question, of course, is does it work?
problem in their minds is try to pass the law and not bypass the constitutional boundaries put in the presidency and given to the congress. i ll let karen respond. again, they did try to pass laws and it was republicans in congress with a little help from a couple of democrats, but we didn t have the republicans vote to actually pass measures to help bring student relief. and so, again, all these decisions taken together, this is huge point of contrast between who democrats are fighting for, who this president is fighting for. are we expanding the circle of opportunity or making it further out of reach with each of these decisions? karen finny, scott jennings, guys, thanks very much. coming up, we ll go live to ukraine where a top intelligence official now claims russia is plotting to assassinate the mercenary chief behind the weekend rebellion. plus a damning state department report details the failures behind the chaotic u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. g bs both large and sma