and they tend to vote in primaries for the candidates that they feel closest to. that they would like to see president. they are not voting about who they think could get elected. that may come back to haunt the republican party in 2024. because if you look at the democrats what they think of the race, they think that trump is going to win the nomination. and they think that biden will be beating him. because he did beat him. the case can be made that he is a loser. fox news analyst with an accurate assessment of donald trump s political track record over the last several years. in the opinion shared by one of the country s most conservative political groups. that group is out with a new attack against ronald trump. ask yourself, is it worth the risk? america is struggling because of joe biden s policies. but with donald trump, republicans lost the house. lost the white house, and the senate. and we have lost our chance to capitalize on biden s devastating record. if dona
still wrong. that is former vice president mike pence in iowa yesterday defending himself after a woman falsely claimed he had the constitutional power to block the certification of the 2020 election results. a calm takedown of that conspiracy theory. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 6th. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. and legal analyst danny. mike pence, for all the criticisms we ve rightly levied upon him over the last eight years or so, seven or eight years, it was sort of a measured takedown and a point by point rebuttal of something that really is prominent, really did take hold, as you write about in your book, the big lie. mike pence had the power to, quote, send it back to the states and give the election to donald trump. yeah, mike pence ruz right was right t
on girls and women s reproductive autonomy. cnn is live as crowds swell outside the supreme court. plus, the widespread impact, where trigger laws now or soon will make abortion entirely illegal for any girl or woman regardless of circumstances. also on this monumental day, the first major gun safety legislation in decades on its way to the white house for president biden s signature. how democrats and republicans came together to compromise. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with the historic decision from the united states supreme court which has overturned roe v. wade. finding that the 167 million girls and women in the united states have no constitutional right to an abortion. massive crowds gathered outside the high court in washington, d.c. this afternoon. some celebrating, some protesting the 5-4 decision. conservative justices samuel alito, clarence thomas, neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett leaving abortion rights as a que
plus, the reversing of roe, what that means for some other rights in this country. during this pride month, right for the lgbtq+ community are under fire. we are going to hear from jim obergefell, the man who led the legal battle for same sex marriage. i am symone sanders, and i have something to say. two days after supreme court overturned roe v. wade, the nation continues to grapple with the realities of a post roe america. yang, that s not good. at least nine states have already banned abortion. ripping away women s rights to make decisions about their own bodies. even more states are expected to follow. thousands of americans nationwide are still hitting the streets to protest the courts ruling. and the idea that state governments can now force people to give birth. meanwhile, democratic members of congress are sounding the alarm. but, how are they talking about this? well, they are talking about how the decision will affect americans everywhere. take a listen to democrat
so is that something that not only democrats, but those who support women s right to choose for example in need to look at, and the democratic party should be looking at the data and should be concerned. it also really put that question to the white house, what can this president really do about the loan forgiveness failure at scotus, because there are a lot of americans who are extremely demoralized by that decision. that is exactly the kind of group that you want to show up at the polls. remember, there s a close alignment between college voters and democrats at this point, excuse me, college people with a college degree and democrats. i think that there is a lot of data to parse here. i don t know that these voters are moving over to the republican party, but they re just becoming inactive. the larger question of what it says about our politics is pretty depressing, as we ve been saying this morning. some depressing news to parse through, because it suggests that there is not much