has good judicial precedent and understands the importance of it. all eyes on collins today, jeff. she said it is important to uphold roh v roe verse wade. he considered it precedent. that was my judgment, as well. i was glad to hear him say that at that time. obviously, it is an issue that i m going to raise with him. so, that is clearly part of the playbook for her today. absolutely. it is part of the playbook for the people opposing his nomination, to put pressure on her and others who feel the same way. i think it is also important to remember just how powerful susan collins is. she s consistently a swing vote on a number of hot-button issues. given that republicans only have the tiniest of majorities in the senate, that gives her an extraordinary amount of power.
base shrink. slud donald trump is holding that 35%, maybe 40%. but if evangelicals would say we have had enough of an immoral president, you would see trump s base start shrinking. possibly the end of his possibility of getting reelected. he has to keep the evangelicals with him. he mentioned billy graham, 100 times donald trump and praises franklin graham whenever he can. he constantly is signaling to the evangelicals i may be a sinner, but i m worth trying to stick with because i m delivering on other things like being against roe verse wade. appreciate your insight. thanks for being here. so you may remember the name martin shkreli, the hedge fund manager who jacked up the price of a life saving drug back 2015. a federal court has sentenced him to seven years for defrauding investors out of more than $10 million.
susan beavan, pro-choice republicans, and linda lake who has done work for emily s list and kim gandy, former president of n.o.w., and michael is back here with us. kim, i want to start with you. we did a little history there leading up to 1980. i think it s something people who aren t by matly familiar with that history are surprised to find out, wow, there used to be a lot of republicans who identify themselves as pro-choice. also, you know, that 1980 platform, that was seven years after roe verse wade. we think of the republican party as the top to bottom anti-abortion party but it took a long time for that to take hold in the party. what was going on back then that brought that about? that s quite true. there was a realignment of the two parties that started in that year, 1980, when the republican party went from being
something stupid about rape or whatever. there s been this reluctance to do anything about it, but i think just in this in this little season of this year, there s been this concerted push. celinda, our numbers expert here, i want to ask you about this. you mentioned the idea of a marriage gap in terms of attitudes towards the party, toward abortion. when you poll, it really depends how you ask the question. first, trimester, 60% will say legal. second trimeser, 60% will say illegal. you ask should you overturn roe, two to one, no, we shouldn t overturn roe. i wonder how stuff we re seeing like in texas right now, you ask the question about like a 20-week ban in texas in the poll and it shows there s more support than opposition. there s other stuff in here about clinics. there s other aspects to the legislation. i wonder how this is all playing with the electorate. how do you filter it through when you look at numbers?