austin johnson with a spot-on impersonation of donald trump, and interrupting the last supper nearly a week after trump s historic arraign marraignment, s showing more americans agree with the charges. up 5% this week. his former attorney general is predicting another indictment for the former president we ll get into that straight ahead. we re also going to dig into the competing rulings from federal judges on a commonly used drug for medical abortions. the impact on women s health care and the political impact on the republican party by the way, mika, you know let s just say, it s not good. based on conversations we ve had with friends and others that have voted for donald trump, this is really it s more bad political news, obviously, for women s rights, but especially for republicans i ve got to say, i was really taken, and i ve been taken over the last week especially, of people who have been trump supporters for a long time. yeah. who you start talk
these are difficult issues, right? i mean, the definition of life and the roe system i mean, this isn t easy. no. there are people of enormous goodwill, enormous goodwill, who differ from lots of folks that we re talking to and about but you take it to the system, you take it to the constitution, and if there is a decision, you respect it if the decision goes the other way, you work within channels. you don t throw people out of legislative bodies yeah. there you go. you know, it is, it is a very difficult issue, abortion. it is a nuanced position people it s complicated. have layers and layers of thoughts and beliefs, and there are good people on both sides. but if you want to know where
democrats had a tendency to look nationally well, there were a lot of people focusing on those individual states after all, and what did you see? i mean, michigan complete a complete turnaround over the past year. wisconsin, a massive landslide in the judicial race, in a state that is the ultimate swing state. then kansas, as well you look at what happened in kansas last summer it is really shocking. mara gay, it s crazy i think here we find ourselves in 2023, and i think we re going to end up where bill clinton was in 1992. i m not just talking about for democrats. i m talking about americans. when bill clinton came out, they asked him position on abortion he goes, i think it needs to be safe, legal and rare. i m hearing that not from democrats, not from activists on the street i m hearing that from
blowout victory for a state preem court seat in wisconsin was the latest example of supporters who support abortion rights youltsoutnumbering and outvoting their opponents. the dobbs decision last year exposed americas broad opposition of the zriktstrict abortion bans. after wisconsin defeat, along with the numerous others, including abortion-related ballot measures in red states, such a strict prohibition runs headlong into national public opinion. and it raises the question how, if at all, are republicans going to find a message that puts the party more in line with the median voter the roe v. wade framework making abortion mostly legal but allowing states to impose modest restrictions is where the majority of american voters are. from the midterms to wisconsin, potentially to the 2024 elections, they are continuing to punish the party that is
the inability to have access to abortion or anything like it. it goes back to and we talk about it all the time i remember when john heilemann and mark halperin had, in 2016, that bloomberg focus group you had a group of working class americans in the midwest who, when they talked about donald trump, they said, he s one of us. that was the first time, and it was jarring and shocking that this billionaire celebrity was, quote, one of them, was seen that way i keep going back to what elise jordan s focus group this year, where we had the supporter, the conspiracy theorist. you go down one issue after another, and he was all in, all in on stolen elections, all in on conspiracy theories then elise said, what about abortion, roe v. wade being overturned? he said, that s none of my business. the georgia voter. i didn t know if it was a