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
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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