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consistently opposed by some 60% of californians. likely voters were unenthusiastic about newsom. his baseball mobilized. democrats proving they can drive enthusiasm and turnout in a race framed as a referendum on pandemic restrictions, the kind president joe biden has now long championed and the kinds of things gop leaders continue to forcefully and vocally fight. governor newsom hailing a win for science and a win for all the priorities that have dominated the national democratic jaernd in recent weeks. we said yes to science. we said yes to vaccines, yes to ending this pandemic. we said yes to people s right to vote without fair of fake fraud or voter suppression. we said yes to women s fundamental constitutional right to decide for herself what she does with her body, faith and future. we said yes to diversity, we said yes to inclusion, yes to pluralism. we said yes to all those things we hold dear as californians, and i would argue, as americans. the essential ....
make the choice between keeping their job and getting a jab in the arm. it s just wrong. i ve talked to people, a number of people, who have told me if they make me take the vaccine, i m going to be fired. i m not going to do it. but you say it s a personal choice. in fact, to attend school in your state of nebraska, children must be vaccinated against a number of diseases. let me put them up on the screen. they must be vaccinated against diththeria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps and rubella and chicken pox. why are those mandates parents in your state must comply with and do comply with routinely, why is it that they are not so objectionable and such a violation of personal freedom but biden s vaccine mandates are? well, for all those that you just listed, there s a long history that parents have had the opportunity to see how those things have been implemented. there are a lot of people who don t know what to trust. because of people like you. but it ....
color, from voting. the methodical way this has been laid out in the state legislatures and in this state legislation is geared towards robbing us of the vote. the movement from the ground up is starting to be the only way that we can preserve our right to vote. we informed them that this is going to come not from the white house but our houses up. since january 48 states have got under 89 bills to restrict voting. 17 states have signed 28 new laws curbing access to the vote. another 61 bills are moving through 18 other state legislators. today the texas legislator opened a special session to revive the republican backed election bills that democrats killed in may by staging a walkout in the last moments of the regular session. the proposed texas legislation includes banning 24-hour and drive-through voting. new voter i.d. requirements for mail-in ballots and expanding the powers of partisan poll watchers. democrats in the texas legislator gathered in front of the sta ....
what they plan to do to safeguard the right to vote. democracy is under vigorous, vicious, and sinister attack, beginning with the events of january 6th at the capitol and cascading like a tsunami through state legislatures across the nation. we are going to build a movement around this country to resist that, what is clearly a move to try to disenfranchise people of color from voting, the methodical way this has been laid out in the state legislatures and at their state legislation is geared toward robbing us of the vote. the movement from the ground up is starting to be the only way that we can preserve our right to vote. we informed them that this is going to come not from the white house down, but from our houses up. according to the brennan center for justice, since january, 48 states have introduced at least 389 bills to restrict voting. 17 states have signed 28 new laws curbing access to the vote. another 61 bills are moving through 18 other state legislatu ....
democrats, moderate democrat joe manchin said he would vote with his party to open debate on the bill. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is here. how does this change things? reporter: well, what it means is that democrats will be unified in today s vote but it will still not change the outcome. this bill will be blocked by a republican filibuster. there are 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. 50 democrat, 50 republicans and the vote can going to go down, we expect 50-50 but democrats have been furiously trying to win over joe manchin or to make the argument to voters in their view that republicans are blocking the efforts to ease access to voting. that s the political argument that democrats have been trying to make and they re concerned that if manchin were to break ranks it would undercut that argument because republicans could say this is a bipartisan opposition to the democrats bill which they consider a federal takeover of the election. now ....