good evening pete leading a group of republican democratic members of congress meeting but the taiwanese president at the reagan library, speaker mc carthy said it is incumbent on the us to continue arming taiwan to strengthen economic cooperation and to promote what he called shared values with th self ruled island that they continue to threaten. between the people of taiwan is america matter up found important to the free world and it is critical to maintain economic freedom, peace, and regional stability. for her part the taiwanese president painted taiwan as one of the front lines of the ongoing battle between democrac and autocracy. we find ourselves in a world where democracy is and we need to keep the beacon of freedom shining and it canno be understated. the meeting with leaders speak your mccarthy was following in the footsteps of his predecessor, nancy pelosi, went even further utterly and figuratively by traveling to taiwan for her meeting but the react
rights protections for their stay constitution, voting it down 59 to 41%. now just to put that in a little bit more into context, to put the entire political earthquake into context, that ballot question was supposed to be an easy win for the antiabortion side. was not even supposed to be close. a recent poll said the 47% of kansans plan to vote yes on the amendment compared to no gland vote no. and republicans were supposed to cruise to victory with their demographic advantage. last night, most of the primary races were for republicans. there was not much incentive for democrats to even show up, aside for this one ballot question. and it was a strategic and very cynical question to put this question on the primary ballot, instead of the general election. proponents of the measure were hoping and planning for a low turnout. the question itself was intentionally garbled to confuse people. the text read in part quote, to the extent permitted by the constitution of the united s