be displayed prominently in all public classrooms. and seven days left. we are one week away from the first presidential debate of 2024 amid brand new polling that shows president biden is gaining. let s begin, though, with that weather. in texas, heavy rain and storm surge from tropical storm alberto has caused serious flooding, as you can see right here with coastal areas underwater from 5 to 10 inches of rain, along with that storm surge. new mexico is also dealing with what the national weather service says is extremely dangerous flooding, but look at this. the wildfires are what s really causing problems in new mexico. the state is reeling. hundreds of structures are gone. and at least two people are dead. locals say they had never seen anything like this before. it s been nonstop planes, nonstop sirens and almost felt like being in the war zone with all the smoke surrounding the area here in the middle. back east, temperatures are reaching 100 degrees in place
laws. that s not what we have food. sam stein here, i want to change topics. we re in this moment of voter suppression an voter rights debates in this country. we have the disbandiment of the trump counsel, last night they ruled the districts in north carolina were unconstitutional, we have a supreme court case on wisconsin, your organization has a specific case it is attached to that involves voter registration in ohio. i have a two-part question, one is can you walk us through the dynamicings of what s going on in that case specifically but in a broader political sense, is the democratic party waking up to this as a important electoral issue and how big an issue should it be for the party heading into re-districting in 2020? thanks for that question, sam, i m actually not on the set with you all if new york but here in d.c., because today by organization is in partnership
this is enough to pressure some kind of vote in the house? that s what republicans said that they were hoping for here, some of the moderate republican who is did end up backing opening debate on this bill. they said the more of us vote for this, the more likely it will be that house speaker john boehner will reconsider the position he said he s called this extension, quote, unworkable. there were more republicans today who voted to open debate on this bill than we were initially expecting, including a couple of the senators who had dropped out of bipartisan negotiations earlier on. but if you look at who was backing this, it s really senators from purple states or blue states or place where is the unemployment rate is very high. senator dean heller of nevada who is senate majority leader harry reid s counterpart on the republican side spearheaded these negotiations. so the question is whether at this point this is enough to convince boehner that the dynamicings here have changed.
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