Host good morning. Thursday, august 10. Welcome to the washington journal. This morning, we will begin with the abortion debate and how it will impact your vote in the 2024 election. Republicans dial in at 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send a text message and include your first name, city, and state to 202 7488003 or post on facebook. Com cspan or on x cpsanwj. Ohio is a roadmap for 2024 after ohio voted in an off year election in summertime to reject a Ballot Initiative that would have restricted abortion or abortion efforts. Now, democrats nationally are looking at this as a roadmap. The power of reproductive rights in recent elections is prompting democrats to rethink their 2024 strategy. From the Washington Post, they begin with, even in redleaning states, support for abortion rights is proving to be a potent electoral force. In ohio, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have made it harder to add abortion rights to the states c
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Welcome back to the washington journal this morning. An hour next hour, we are talking about the Biden Administrations military and veterans policy. We are joined this morning by tyler and mary. Mary, i will begin with you. What is your group, what are your goals, and i will have you that answer the same question, tyler. We are a progressive Veterans Organization founded in 2006 by veterans of the iraq war. We now have over 1. 5 million veterans and military supporters. We work to advocate for progressive policies that benefit u. S. National security. Host give me some examples. We are strongly supportive of President Bidens authorization to end the war in afghanistan and it repeal the use of force in iraq, which has been used to authorize wars in far too many countries. We are strongly supportive of strong u. S. Support for ukraine and our nato allies. Host tyler, same question to you and how do you differ from this Progressive Group . Should think it thanks for having me on. Concern
Host welcome back, the next hour we are talking about the Biden Administration military and veterans policy. We are joined by Tyler Koteskey, policy director for concerned veterans for america and Mary Kaszynski with vote vet. What is your group and what are your goals . Guest it is a progressive veterans organization, founded in 2006 by veterans of the iraq war. We have a network of over 1. 5 million veterans, military families and supporters. We work to advocate for progressive veterans policy and policies that benefit u. S. National security. We supported President Bidens decision to end the war in afghanistan, repeal the authorization for use of force in iraq, which has been used to authorize wars in far too many countries, strongly supported strong u. S. Support for ukraine and nato allies. Host the same question to you and how do you differ from this Progressive Group . Guest thanks for having me on. Concerned veterans for america is a National Grassroots Advocacy Organization of
Sen. Tommy Tuberville has halted more than 400 military nominations over abortion. But Democrats don’t want to just dunk on Tuberville; they are going after the whole GOP.