a reminder that election date is november 8th, everyone. chris, thank you as always. thank you. thank you for joining us at home tonight. we re just two weeks away from the midterm elections, in the battle for control of congress in the state houses could really could not be closer. polls have been tightening for weeks, as republicans have edged into democratic gains that were made over the summer. tonight, debates just wrapped in races for your governor and the senate, we ll have much more on that. but before, that it s worth remembering exactly how we got, here considering how much of a rollercoaster of electioneered s been. remember a few months ago on june 7th, when the city of san francisco shocked the country, when it recalled its progressive district attorney. the campaign against him had framed his criminal justice reform platform is somehow soft on crime, provoking backlash among san franciscans. that local election in blue california, was held up as a canary in
literally not be closer. polls have been tightening for weeks, as republicans have edged into democratic gains that were made over the summer. tonight, debates just wrapped in races for new york governor and the senate, we ll have much more on that. but before, that it s worth remembering exactly how we got, here considering how much of a rollercoaster of an election year it has been. remember a few months ago on june 7th, when the city of san francisco shocked the country, when it recalled its progressive district attorney. the campaign against him had framed his criminal justice reform platform is somehow soft on crime, provoking backlash among san franciscans. that local election in blue blue california, was held up as a canary in the coal mine for democrats. the party, according to them, had a crime problem that republicans would seize on in an election year, when that already favored republicans. and here were some of those headlines. progressive backlash in california,
when it called its district attorney boudin. and that local election in blue, blue california was held up by pundits as a canary in the coal mine for democrats the party, according to them had a crime problem that republicans would seize on in an election year, one that already favored and here were some of those headlines. progressive backlash in california fuels democratic debate over crime. california voters send a stark message to democrats on crime and homelessness. democrats need to know the message that crisis september. week of recall, gas topped $5 a gallon for the first time ever and republicans began gearing up to make the election all about inflation. those were theoretically, the contours of this election, only a few months ago, as of the first week of june and then two weeks later, everything changed. the united states supreme court struck down a 50-year precedent protecting a woman s own right to control her own body which upended politicals across the country.
really believes and states rights i would never. he said, as a doctor, i would never interfere with the individual states ability to govern, whether or not a person can have access to a safe abortion. it was sort of a wild juxtaposition of his medical experience with a deep belief and every individual states right usually, a state is not involved in the decisions made between the patient and his or her doctor, therefore the statement he had a weird medical practice, apparently. one more, rebecca, the crime piece. you bring up fetterman s background which a lot of people don t really understand vis-à-vis crime. and the ways in which oz is trying to tether federer men s vulnerabilities to also being soft on crime. do you think that is any more an effective line of attack, given what we know of fetterman s background, and the person he is, just sort of
experience with a deep belief and every individual states right usually, a state is not involved in the decisions made between the patient and his or her doctor, therefore the statement he had a weird medical practice, apparently. one more, rebecca, the crime piece. you bring up fetterman s background which a lot of people don t really understand vis-à-vis crime. and the ways in which oz is trying to tether federer men s vulnerabilities to also being soft on crime. do you think that is any more an effective line of attack, given what we know of fetterman s background, and the person he is, just sort of category is not as a weak person. no matter what his recovery process looks like, the man does not look enfeebled. he doesn t, and actually, it s very interesting, because i was thinking about that tonight. so much of the initial attack that i was made on fetterman, about crime, has to do with his work on the pearl clemency board, and granting clemency, including to two brot