world. it is tuesday, october 18th. i m christine romans. just three weeks to go until the mid-term elections. today president biden will zero in on abortion rights when he speaks at a speech in washington. the latest cnn poll finds it s the economy, inflation, voting rights, guns all ranked ahead of abortion in the minds of voters. cnn s jasmine wright is live for us bright and early in washington. jasmine, what do you expect the president s message on abortion to be? reporter: the president is going to talk about how he believes there is an assault on women s bodies and their right to choose. they can go with the republican party who wants to ban abortion, he s going to say, or go with democrats who don t, who want to codify abortion. the president has been trying to drum up the democratic base hoping they ll come out and support their base. control is on the ballot come november. now of course two things stand in contrast here. first, we talked about a majority of voters
Are very, very tight across the country. take a listen. the president is going to get out there, as we have said multiple times, to make sure he s talking directly to the american people about how we are delivering on our promises, delivering on how we re taking inflation seriously, delivering on making sure we re creating the jobs that the american people need at this time. he s been on the road nonstop and he will continue to be on the road nonstop. reporter: the white house says we can expect to see the president trying to talk about how he s delivering to the american people on the trail. first today what the choice is when it comes to abortion come november. jasmine, nice to see you this morning. thank you so much. it was a big night on debate stages across the country. senate candidates tim ryan and j.d. vance picked up the same
Behind the trend on this one. it s not a comfortable issue for the president, however, you are seeing it on the state level, particularly somewhere like michigan where across the country you re hearing democrats say abortion is on the ballot. michigan it already is. there is a separate ballot issue that democrats from the time that that decided it was going to be on the ballot have been mobilizing behind it. while candidates are more nuanced, they have lots of reasons that voters go for one candidate or another. as we saw in kansas, the up or down on something like that can drive turnout for democrats saying it will help them get over the line particularly in competitive governor s race in michigan and some of the house seats that can be critical for democrats trying to hold on to every seat possible in that majority. jackie kucinich, nice to see you bright and early. thanks, christine.
Hoping they ll come out and support their base. control is on the ballot come november. now of course two things stand in contrast here. first, we talked about a majority of voters are not listing abortion first as their main voting issue. it s the economy. something you can see on the screen. something they have fought against. second, what today is going to look like. we re not expecting him to show up with a major candidate. john fetterman of pennsylvania when he comes there for finance vote. that is likely to be closed door. cutting holes into this series the president has been doing, not holding major democratic rallies with candidates. last week we saw him on the west coast. the white house defended his schedule even though it s right on showing up with races that
World. it is tuesday, october 18th. i m christine romans. just three weeks to go until the mid-term elections. today president biden will zero in on abortion rights when he speaks at a speech in washington. the latest cnn poll finds it s the economy, inflation, voting rights, guns all ranked ahead of abortion in the minds of voters. cnn s jasmine wright is live for us bright and early in washington. jasmine, what do you expect the president s message on abortion to be? reporter: the president is going to talk about how he believes there is an assault on women s bodies and their right to choose. they can go with the republican party who wants to ban abortion, he s going to say, or go with democrats who don t, who want to codify abortion. the president has been trying to drum up the democratic base