the beat with ari melber starts right now. our top story is this democratic resurgence we re living through this week, brought to you by the voters of the united states of america. republicans are straight up reeling because voters, including in often more conservative leaning states, are rejecting this version, today s version of the republican party as measurably unpopular. as something that these voters oppose, and they oppose the policies, and i m not talking about opinion, i m not talking about speculation or polling. i m just reporting for you on what we re learning from the vote this week and the party that is now dealing with what has clearly a brand. that fed weeks of chaos in replacing a speaker, shows the candidates running for office right now against the very creator of maga, trump, while he skipped this debate they did last night, and they were clearly still split over how to challenge him and each other against the backdrop of these new losses. all of it
criminal conviction? today, the campaign announced a $50 million ad. part of which will be used to highlight the simple fact that their opponent is now a felon. and if there goal is to break through a broad audience with that fact a week before the debate, the announcement is pretty good start. we are going to play in full in just a few minutes and talk to deputy campaign manager about the strategy behind it. but first, as we get closer to election day 2024, it is clear that a key piece of the trump strategy is to continue to stop the same lines they pushed in 2020. and you would think that after charges were brought against the former president at the federal level and against many of his accolades in five different states, they might try a different approach. maybe cut it all out but instead, four years later, the same dog is relying on the same old tricks. but this time, the language is actually getting darker. listen to how trump talk about the election over the weekend.
Abortion plans had gone in place. and you inquiry hearing from doctors about what might happen if abortion plans go into effect. when we went there is what we saw is the things doctors were warning about were happening realtime on the ground. i had a doctor tell me he had patients die had patients die because he wasn t allowed to give them an abortion that would have saved their life. we met with a doctor kwhos giving abortions illegally and he was saying there s been absolutely no difference in demand for abortions, whether it s legal or not. there s no difference. and then most really like keeps me up at night is when i spoke to the women who were in prison for having an abortion and there were some in there that had not seen their family in years because this precedent is in such a dangerous place and their family can t visit. they say think mischarged, they
Pro-who i say and senators voted no on a piece of republican legislation that would have been an abortion ban and instituted a 20-week ban coast to coast would not be allowed to access abortion plans. anti-abortion judgess and in this case, what they would be doing is providing the deciding vote literally and directly to overturn it and make abortion illegal in america. it is not theoretical and not complicated. you only have to count to one. and all that either of them have to do to avoid casting the vote, what was fair for the scalia seat is fair for the kennedy seat, let s vote after the election. that s all.