people living in states hostile to abortion, it s americans everywhere, in every state which may be why today, as the news of this draft ruling sunk in, the response from democratic leaders was unusually raw and emotional. here was the democratic leader of the senate, chuck schumer. if we had to pick a word that our caucus feels it s infuriated, infuriated by the alleged decision, infuriated by the lies these justices told us whento they said they respect precedent, infuriated by our republican colleagues who don t tell the truth. i am just i cannot tell you the outrage i feel at this decision. and the outrage i feel that republicans who did it won t own up to it. and duck it. despicable. and here was vice president kamala harris this evening the pro-choice organization emily s list.
in just a few moments i m going to speak with pri mill la jayapal who tried to move this forward in congress and there s been atr lot of discussion about doing that. your opinion, what does codifying abortion rights look like? is that something done at the federal level? is it done at the state level? is it both? what does success look like in codifying legal protection for abortion rights? so, pri mill la jayapal and nancy pelosi and the team in the house passed women protection act. chuck schumer tried. wek had unsuccessful effort. he s bringing it back next weekt we re really excited to support him there. but look, it s both. it s all of the above. it s state legislative efforts. efforts like governor gavin newsom, grit chen whitmer fighting back with legislation, ballot initiatives in kansas and michigan as well as federal legislation.
to revoke the constitutional right to abortion in the united states. today the chief justice john roberts confirmed that a draft majority opinion published last night by politico.com is authentic. in that draft opinion, justice samuel alito eviscerates both roe versus wade and planned parenthood versus casey, the foundational supreme court precedence guaranteed the right to an adoption in this country for decades. if the court does ultimately rule that way, the justices take away a right that americans have been guaranteed for nearly 50 years, the ramifications will be immediate, widespread, severe and inpr some ways unpredictabl. but one thing that is predictable is the practical effects of this potential ruling. we don t have to speculate on this one. to o see what it will look liken state after state, if roe v.
ryan the democrat in the fall. basically what s been happening here, if you ve been watching these returns on our air tonight when we first came on the air when about the first ten or 15% of the vote was reported out, vance was running at about 24, 25%. what that was was the way they report the vote out in ohio is every county puts out the early vote and the vote by mail first. in a republican primary, that s a pretty small share of the overall vote. most republicans, most prefer to vote in person on election day. the people that voted in person on election day today have broken sharply for jd vance in county after county we have seen him measurably improving in how he did today versus how he did in the early vote. a couple things could explain that but one of them is that it was the middle of the early voting period on april 15th that donald trump threw his support behind jd vance. so could be one of the reasons vance is doing so much better
was crushing vance. margin was 20 points. now the same day vote has come in, vance has moved that into single digits. that s great to be in dolan s backyard doing that well. suburbs just north of columbus, ohio, bedrock republican suburbs the place that dolan wanted to win and get big numbers. instead vance looks like he s on the way to outright winning delaware county. hamilton county, cincinnati, vance grew up in the area here. you can see he s leading in hamilton county, cincinnati right now. so actually geographically a pretty expansive victory for vance. again the numbers sitting at 31%, more than 70% in. i wouldn t be surprised if it ticked up a little more that vance number before the night is over. also, if mandel ends up running second ahead of dolan, wouldn t be surprised by that either. but bottom line, jd vance wins the primary and donald trump, we said, this was a test of his clout with republican primary