Lottery, which begins right now. Today on inside politics, ohio says no. Voters reject a measure that would have made it easier for republicans trying to make it harder for women to get an abortion. Plus, do republicans solemnly swear to report who are whoever is the nominee. The Loyalty Pledge in order to make the first debate stage. And biden test drives a traffic and weather approach to win over voters. He defends his lclimate credentials in a new interview, but dances around a big unfulfilled promise. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, a hard lesson for republicans in ohio and nationwide on the issue of abortion, again. Thats a hard no. Thats the headline in this mornings paper that follows a clear voter verdict. 57 of ohio voters rejected a ballot measure, issue one. Its technically about the rules to rewrite the constitution, but voters viewed it as a test of Abortion Rights and what states should be allow ed to tell wome to do. Jeff celmy i
and this whole notion of a pledge is relatively new. it s because of donald trump. i was at trump power back in 2015 watching the rnc chair run in with a piece of paper to get donald trump to sign the pledge because they were worried that he was going to run a third party if he didn t get the nomination. none of that happened because he became the nominee. so you do have people who are saying, come on, what s the point of this. it doesn t make a lot of sense. i ll sign it, but it s irrelevant. one of the key reasons, which is the question of whether or not donald trump will even get on the debate stage, remember back in 2016, he did go to the first couple of debates. this is a headline that our team found of january 2016. trump says he won t participate in gop debate on fox news. that is an old headline, but it could potentially be the headline that we re going to see