abortion, about which party gets your vote on policy. but there are also some new polls that at the same time hammer home the deep, deep alienation with the current president of the united states. you re watching cnn s special live coverage, election night in america. i m abby phillip in washington. and i m laura coates. here in new york. i m abby. if you re a democratic consultant, this should be a good night. cnn projects that kentucky s democratic governor is going to win against a rising republican star in a state donald trump carried by 26 points. now voters in red ohio approve abortion is still a very powerful motivator. tonight, cnn projects they said yes to enshrining abortion access in their constitution. and yet new cnn poll numbers confirm just how high a hurdle president biden faces with voters heading into 2024. talking about young voters, independents, black voters, latino voters. that s really the core of the biden coalition. and one year out from the president
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. There in alexandria, virginia. Joe, bring me up to speed on the trial at this moment. Reporter so, our question, of course, as you said at the top, brooke, is when will crossexamination begin . The assumption is its pretty close. What we do know is that the prosecution has asked a lot of questions and there was a break around, what, 2 30 p. M. Eastern time that was supposed to go until about 2 45 eastern time. The judge told the defense to keep questions and crossexamination sharply focussed. Sort of telegraphing the things to come. Now, lets talk a little bit about the last testimony we heard from rick gates. Hugely important, almost anything he says about the case. I think one of the most interesting points that was brought out by the judge at the very end of that direct
defense . Because cant the defense just say this guy is an admitted liar. This is the guy who should be on trial. And really attacking his credibility .
the west virginia gubernatorial seat. joe manchin, and it was pretty unclear what he was going to do. he decided to run for governor. he wins that office. joe manchin last november won a six-year senate term lasting through 2024. and so worse case scenario for senate democrats that had him running for governor, won the office, still able to point a democrat as his successor. he would have lost in a state that is trending republican over the last several years, particularly in the trump era. so republicans might have been able to fill in the last two years of manchin s term. now he gets to sit in the senate for a full six years. to me the question becomes what does joe manchin do if democrats win the white house in 2020 and pick up the senate? his vote on policy matters will be crucial.
you noted this is a district donald trump won by 11 points. it s been in republican hands for 35 years. the fact that it s a dead heat is already astounding, but we ll see if the democrats pull out a big upset here and actually make their november goal one seat closer, they would only need then 22 seats in november as a net gain to win the majority of the house of representatives, but there are a couple primaries, brooke. you mentioned donald trump hangs over all of this. that is true especially in kansas in the governor s race there, chris kobach a controversial figure in kansas, part of president trump s now depad depanelled voter fraud. donald trump went against the wishes of the republican governor s association and the establishment crowd, he went against the sitting republican governor in kansas and the big question is, if kobach wins the nomination tonight, does that put that kansas gubernatorial