ground for the public? roe, when you look at the details, it would have allowed which is not it something that lives in a temperature swing district, i polled the issue over and over and over again. i had my first town hall of this congress last week, and it is a top issue for swing voters, a number two issue in my district. the vast majority of people in
welcome back. the 50th anniversary of the roe decision, republicans are in an uncomfortable decision. activists are calling for tougher restrictions, while the swing voters the republicans needs to win in swing districts statewide increasingly favor keeping abortion legal. it s an issue that will continue to be pushed into the headlines by the coming republican primary and by state legislatures, every one of them convening this year. joining me is congresswoman macy. thank you for having me. when you look at the public opinion about roe, and in some ways roe has become more popular since it was overturned, is that the middle ground, the public, you know, maybe nobody loved it on the far left or far right, but was that actually the middle
or federal level. i don t know if we can get there. both sides are really entrenched, i sigh that, because i m repeatedly attacked by pro-life groups, even though i m pro-life, but that s where the people i represent are. whether folks see it as a morality issue or personal freedom issue, so compromising either your morals or freedoms is very difficult to do. do you think this is just we re not ready yet in our politics, we need to go through a few more cycles? your party needs to lose more on this issue before more folks look at it the way you do? it s the reason we didn t get more of a majority. we could have had a two dozen seat majority, but we don t. this was an issue top of mind for swing voters. when you re looking ahead to 24, going to the extremes and digging in there isn t going to work for most people. when i look at every issue, not just on roe v wade, but every
wanting to get into the pr game, but it really looks like keeping a close circle was damaging. it has been damaging optically. it s important to point out, and kimberly kind of touched on this, in terms of this search that happened at president biden s delaware home, the thinking is it will be short-term pain with long-term gain, because they re being transparent, but i ve been sitting in i have the briefings water torture. yes, day after day after day of drip, drip, drip. the white house counsel on s office wants to be careful. they did start to shift their strategy, but there are key questions that still remain unanswered, including why it took two months for the world to learn about this. i want to talk about another issue, the supreme court investigation. i want to put up there their first when it was a grave assault on the judicial plods, following up on all available leads. the marshall s team involved additional forensic investigation, but the team has to date been u
issue, we re so divided. i sometimes joke that joe manchin is the most popular senator at the moment, but to hear him speak in a refreshing way, is the way both sides need to be dealing with this. i m vocal, sake i m pro-life, but willing to sit down and talk about how do we balance the rights for women and the right to life. so let s have that conversation, let s have it in the open, find a way to move together, having a divided congress, we re supposed to be working together, but both sides are afraid of their primaries. that s not the way we should be operating, but the vast majority