good to be with you. i m chris jansing in for katy tur. president biden is making a big promise on abortion rights, a promise that he s betting will help lift democratic candidates who are on the midterm ballots. that s why these ecritical to elect more democrats to the united states senate and keep control of the house of representatives. folks, if we do that, here is the promise i make to you and to the american people, the first bill i send to congress will be could codify roe v. wade. and when congress passes it, i ll sign it in january. vote democratic and then i will send a message to codify roe but some folks are asking why wait until the next congress when the party has control now. i m going to talk to the director late they are hour on the timing of the president s speech and whether the issue can get democrats over the finish line. tim ryan and j.d. vance last night in a critical ohio senate race as well as in their last debate. the pair went toe to toe. temper
vote democratic and then i will send a message to codify roe but some folks are asking why wait until the next congress when the party has control now. i m going to talk to the director late they are hour on the timing of the president s speech and whether the issue can get democrats over the finish line. tim ryan and j.d. vance last night in a critical ohio senate race as well as in their last debate. the pair went toe to toe. tempers flared when vance was asked if he would vote for lindsey graham s national abortion ban. i think it s reasonable to say you cannot abort a baby especially for elective reasons after 15 weeks.
way because as things stand right now everything being static, there is no way for congress to do that and that s why it s a ballot box issue. jesse, we know abortion was a big talking point in ohio last night. it didn t dominate the debate. where did the candidates want to focus? what were they pressed on? reporter: chris, a lot comes down to the questions from the moderators. something that time and again we saw both candidates circling back to no matter what they were asked about was that word extremism. and that gets down to what i think is chiefly tim ryan s strategy here is to peel off republican voters who are more moderately leaning, sick of the trumpism of the republican party right now and if he can convince voters that j.d. vance is very far right and peel off those voters and if j.d. vance can convince people who might lean left or right but in the middle that tim ryan is allied with the far left, then maybe he can preserve that republican
co-vision. and so whether it was about policing, we heard about abortion, january, any number of issues, extremism came up again and again. we saw tim ryan try to be tied to nancy pelosi by j.d. vance and tim ryan tried to tie it s very windy out here and cold and the words are getting stuck tried to tie j.d. vance to marjorie taylor greene. these buzz words that are associated with wings of parties kept coming up again and again throughout the debate. one of the times it really stuck out was at the end of the debate, they were asked about the great replacement theory which is this racist theory talking about white people being replaced in this country. they were both asked about it and i want to play part of this exchange which illustrates how ugly these exchanges could get at times. this great replacement theory was the motivator for the shooting in buffalo where that shooter had all these great
it looks different three weeks versus 39 weeks of pregnancy. it s tragic and j.d. and his extreme crew want to have a national abortion ban. he called rape inconvenient. this is not a guy who is ready to protect the rights of women. i want to show you brand-new polling numbers out of ohio putting vance ahead by two points. a lead that s within the margin of error here. a seat they need to hold on to. so what are the issues driving ohio voters to the polls? unsurprisingly the economy is at the top but also up there is abortion and nearly half of voters say it is how they cast their ballot. we re going to get more into those numbers and what they mean going forward in just a moment. we ll go live to florida where marco rubio and his challenger, val demings, will face off