thank you. thank you. and cnn this morning continues right now. our first look at the results from cnn s new 2024 presidential poll. donald trump has a narrow lead among registered voters. the president has to do things that show people he can engage, he can handle the combat and debate. do you think the bidens policies helped you or hurt you? the bestning in the poll for joe biden is the date on it. 2024 top of mind this morning after yesterday s elections. big wins for democrats and for abortion rights. ohio voters decided to make abortion a right under the state constitution. in virginia, cnn projects democrats will gain full control of the state legislature and a major setback for republican governor glenn youngkin in virginia who had been pushing to restrict abortions after 15 weeks. and in the deep red state of kentucky, democrat andy beshear won re-election. donald trump won kentucky by 26 points in 2020. last night s results have left us with som
who think they might be having a good night. easy, easy. right. easy but but but. a court leaving the ballot open, diane, saying there are lines there in this race that we know is unusually competitive. it means you keep watching it. now let s come back to where we are as we wait. we still have no votes in in mississippi. we do here for another one. again, in this tough national climate for democrats, you have an incumbent democratic governor in a very red state, 56% of the vote in now. right. i told you earlier, watch down here. and a lot of them are starting to slowly fill in. right. these are the conservative counties. but daniel cameron getting only 51% of the vote there. let s just go back in time to 2019. andy beshear getting 46. so the incumbent did a little better. but here s what you look at here. go back to the presidential race. donald trump getting 74% here. and so the margins, the margins are not going daniel cameron s way. if you know that in the urban areas tha
just. close in ohio, mayors on marijuana and abortion rights are on the ballot. reproductive rights are also the center the ballot for control of the state legislature, both houses in virginia. in all of tonight s elections will be a test of a fascinating and defining political dynamic of the biden era, where we have seen democrats reliably outperforming against all odds. first, the incumbent party controlling the white house is usually at a disadvantage. boaters nationally react against swimming back in the other direction, that s why midterm elections tend to favor the party that s out of power. then of course there are conditions joe biden democrats but up, against coming out of the covid pandemic. they have dealt with serious economic headwinds that have racked most of the economies of the world. chief among them, high in inflation, which peak last year in a stunning 9.1%. the president s approval rating has suffered, to say the least. he has been underwater since his fir
deeply rattled and rethinking the ticket or rallying behind the president. robert garcia on where his ro party goes from here after president joe biden s debate flops . on his last day of prid we take you to stone will house in new york which exemplifies the need to keep lgbtq elder say. i am sam stein, let s do it! the debate is the debate is not the only big event shaking up the presidential campaign season, tomorrow is another high-stakes day after months of waiting, we will find out whether trump can be held accountable for attempting to subvert the 2020 election when the court releases presidential immunity. it could have immense reverberations, not just on the race, the future of ■çthis country. to say it s taken a while to get here, that is an understatement, supreme court has shown us multiple times that it has the ability to efficiently handle decisions in importing cases that affect presidency, 50 years ago, the court moved quickly in the watergate tapes case han
where entire neighborhoods are under water. also, jack smith in court right now as the battle plays out in the classified documents case. the new updates we re getting from court. plus, louisiana parents taking the battle between church and state straight to court. their fight to keep the ten commandments out of schools. and an international legal saga coming to an end. a plea deal that would let julian assange walk free. our nbc news reporters are following all the developments. we begin with adrian in minnesota near the site of that dam we re all watching. what s the latest there, adrian? reporter: this afternoon, all eyes are still on the dam behind me that is in threat of imminent failure. we just heard from the local sheriff about the local engineer just moments ago telling us they did see additional erosion overnight. this caution tape is in place to keep people away because folks have shown up wanting to take pictures of this scene behind me, but the sheriff says