in sumner, mississippi. he has dedicated his career to ensuring that the tragic story of emmett till is not only remembered but also serves as catalyst for positive change in the state and beyond. he holds a master's degree from the center for the study southern culture at the university of mississippi and is a former monument lab fellow and w.k. kellogg fellow. so thank you, everyone thank you for being here tonight with. so how we'll proceed is this as moderator i will lead with some questions for our esteemed panelists and then we'll dive into some from our audience toward the end of our discussion. if you're watching online, you can submit questions in the live chat on on youtube. with that let's go ahead and get started. i'd like to remind our to turn your mikes on please and hold them close to your. i'd like to start by getting us all on footing, so to speak. so for each of you, could you talk about what exactly monuments and what do they mean in our society today. good evening. and thank you all for t

>> i grew up in columbus, mississippi. i shared with william earlier this week that i had some of my earliest history lessons driving around the community. a big pilgrimage town. every april you have the pilgrimage and i used to always be in awe of the antebellum homes. of course, there were people hearing me say at the university of mississippi i wanted to do civil war reconstruction history and completely went in a different direction with civil rights history. but -- in that conversation that when i think of those homes as monuments but not to the affluent people who live there but really to lift up the stories and unheard voices of those who built those homes and that is those enslaved people. that is my answer is when i think about monuments just in my childhood, and even thinking outside the box to those monuments represent or reflect their story. it is the untold stories for those voices that have been silenced that need to be amplified and we need to pay attention, there are always two sides of the story. >> i woul

the amazing writers from mississippi. the amazing educators from mississippi. and a couple of footballers would be great. >> our next question. it's me back when i think about the grand monumental tradition, the big statue, the massive stone work and all of this. you think about it in this historical contest. you look at societies like greece or rome, those were powerful people building statues to say a very specific kind of message. almost always wrapped up in oppression. when we think about new monuments or monuments we deserve, should we be thinking outside of that tradition? post grand monument tradition. your mentioning the houses, right? the failed monuments that are multivalent by definition and not built to transmit a specific message. >> that for everyone. >> i'll go first. yes, obviously. i was joking when i said a bigger horse. i don't want to go to a space where you are like, what is it? i hope that they go to some type of meeting. i think that meeting is love, community. how do you show that? maybe it is gathering spaces. they felt that was not the

you know with one foot on each side of mississippi river, a straight out of the mississippi. bugrant says, well, there's no real other choic so we're going to do it. you know, you're you're worries. duly noted. that's fine. but we're going to do it anyway. and but now the key to that i is that sherman is so by this point in grant's career that even though he didn't like it, he still says, i will doll i can. you know, he writes his subordinates, i don't like plan. i don't like this roundabout plan. but we've got to support grant and do our best and sherman, you know, to his credit later says, i didn't like but you're right that you know, we did it your way and it worked by the way, president lincoln also sends grant a message after the vicksburg campaign and says, i've been watching and when you turn northward on the west, east side of the big black river, i thought you were making a mistake. i thought you should have done this and so on. but lincoln stayed out of it. and at the bottom of the letter, he says, want to make the public assertion or the public admission that you w

vote to keep mississippi red. we know what blue states did and what they would do to our state because that $10 million from california and new york, that si ain't charity, they don't want to just change the governor, they want to change mississippi. >> laura: "new york times" wrote this of your opponent mr. presley saying presley's campaign is built on bet his pu human touch and populous platform can form coalition of black and white voters, republicans among them, robust i enough for them to win.o governor, he's trying to deposil himself as dem cat populous maybe trying to poll maga crowd his way. does that ultimately fly in your state? what i would tell you, what an older gentlemen told me 10mpai days ago, he said, look,t you need to say in every group. if a man stands up and tells you he's a democrats, best thing you can do is believe him. fact of the matter is, my opponents supported hillary clinton in 2016 and joe biden in 2020. for anybody in mississippi or anybody watching tonight that thinks joe biden is

reporter: the issues on the mississippi are adding to another problem. last few years, high transportation costs have begun to hamper international trade prices for american goods, says economist chad hart. >> so it makes us less competitive in the international marketplace. over the pt couple of years, argentina and brazil have been able to erode our market share in certain key markets, especially as we look into china. reporter: that the barges are still able to reach these markets at all is thanks mostly to the u.s. army corps of engineers. since mid-july, the corps has been keeping the channel open by dredging, sucking out massive amounts of sand from the river bottom. >> what we see is our dustpan. so, our dustpan's our vacuum cleaner, 35 feet wide. reporter: lou dell'orco is the chief of operations for the corps' saint louis district. he oversees this massive boat, called the dredge potter, working near scott city, missouri. the boat moves this machine, a huge vacuum, around the bottom of the river. >> once the dredge sucks it up from the vacuum cl

presley is campaigning in mississippi saying that it's ridiculous given the economics in mississippi that that state has the highest tax on groceries in the whole country, so he wants to get rid of that. obviously that's a popular position. mississippi also has really unaffordable healthcare, lots of people who are uninsured. he says he will get people insurance in huge numbers by expanding medicaid, which is financially a very big deal for the state and would get hundreds of thousands of people insurance in mississippi. so, with popular positions like that with a compelling personal story that he's got, brandon presley is running against the republican incumbent tate reeves who is one of the most unpopular in the state. it's this ongoing corruption scandal in mississippi. you may have heard about this over the last years, it was 2021 the state auditor announced that $77 million in federal funds had mysteriously gone walking's in mississippi and it was diverted into huge speaking fees for politicians and people connected to the state administration, also a bunch of money was diverted

and polls in mississippi close in one hour.vernor tate reeves is fighting for his second term and is he going to make his final push right here on the angle in moments. now, these elections come as democrat anxiety, we talked a lot about this last night, is building nationwide as biden's poll numbers among key demographic groups continue to drop. and we have seen democrats are fracturing over the middle east as young voters and americans are now threatening to stay home and not vote next year. and, of course, they are pointing to biden's support for israel as the reason. some have even given biden a new nickname. [chanting genocide joe] >> laura: i think he would rather have sleepy joe than genocide joe. well, what did democrats think was going to happen? i had to ask this question tonight when they embraced the radical anti-american left? i mean, they helped nurture them in colleges and universities. they knew what they were being taught. and now we have a bunch of belligerent ne-yo socialist and professional protesters, essen

so, yes, it's mississippi. and mississippi very much appears to be a red state. but this democrat, brandon presley, is making a real run for that governorship tomorrow, tomorrow we shall see. the fact it is not a slam dunk for republicans and that it is considered to be a leans republican race, considered where a democrat at least has a shot at potentially a runoff is just a remarkable thing. also kentucky. you think mississippi is red? for perspective mississippi went for donald trump by 2020 by 16 points. kentucky went for donald trump in 2020 not by 1 points but by 26 points. wow. still, though, the year before that in 2019 kentucky elected a democrat for governor, andy bashir, and democratic governor andy bashir is up for re-election tomorrow in kentucky. and again, yes, this is a super, super red state by some metrics, but democrat andy bashir won the governorship there in 2019, and he has run a solid campaign for re-election, and there is a dynamic at work in this kentucky election that is, i think, maybe hard to overestimate. it's at least hard to estimate

so yes, it's mississippi and mississippi very much appears to be a red state. but this democrat, brendan pressley, is making a run for that governorship. and tomorrow -- it's considered to be of these republican race. considered to be a case where a democrat has at least a shot of forming a runoff this is a remarkable thing. also kentucky, you think mississippi's -- for perspective, mississippi one for donald trump in 2020 4:16 points. and -- by 26 points. wow. still, though. the year before that 2019, kentucky elected a democrat for governor. andy brashear. and democratic governor and he pushes up for reelection tomorrow in kentucky. and again, this is a super, super red state by some metrics by a democrat andy beshear won the governorship there in 2019. and he has run a solid campaign for reelection. and there is a down that mcedwards kentucky election that is i think may be hard to overestimate. it's at least hard to estimate in terms of its effect on voters. the issue in kentucky of abortion rights. republicans control the state legislature in kentucky, whe

if you take state dollars, you fly the flag of the state of mississippi thank you, all. >> our mississippianti-dissent. it demands conformity. do you believe they'll stop with a monument? do you believe they'll stop with a pattern or design on a flag? they ridicule our traditions. they mock us. they laugh at us. you feel like you're losing your country, don't you? you feel marginalized. you're scared. mississippi has to stand. we have nothing else to surrender. we are those warriors, men and women of the soil. stubborn, courageous. we stand here on the edge of history, ready to push back one more time. help's not coming from california. it's not coming from massachusetts. it has to be you. what are you going to do about it? (ella) fashion moves fast. (jen) so we partner with verizon to take our operations to the next level. (marquis) with a custom private 5g network. (ella) we get more control of production, efficiencies, and greater agility. (jen) that's enterprise intelligence. (vo) it's your vision, it's your verizon. he hits his mark —center stage—and is crushed by a baby grand piano.

has momentum, and this is mississippi's time. >> cnn's dianne gallagher has more details now from mississippi. >> reporter: republican governor tate reeves declaring victory on election night, telling his crowd of supporters here in this ballroom that his opponent, democrat brandon presley had called to congratulate him on winning reelection and concede the race. now reeves, a republican who had been dealing with low approval numbers as the incumbent governor, told his supporters that he spoke with former president donald trump on election night and that trump relayed a message of love to the people of mississippi for re-electing tate reeves. his opponent, democrat brandon presley had run on a platform of populism, essentially telling voters that he wanted to cut grocery taxes and expand medicaid, but also on name recognition, his second cousin elvis presley helped democrats get that word out across the state, but again, not enough to push him over the threshold. reeves linking presley with national democrats throughout the campaign and even here in his victory speech on tuesday night. we did

they threw everything they had at mississippi. $13 million they threw at mississippi, mississippi did bend. mississippi is not for sale. >> maybe this was a preview of 2024. maybe not. biden and trump didn't really prominently play in any of these races but, the big issues are not going away before the next national election. a lot of voters are not had a chance to vote their feelings on things like on roe v. wade being overturned. back to you. >> peter, what do you think the reason is that the house and the senate, democrats grabbed both of those in virginia? >> ainsley: well, there was a lot of advertising on tv and on the radio and online in this area over the last couple of months where the democratic candidates were basically putting forward that republicans wanted to get rid of abortion. they wanted to basically restrict it out of existence. and, that's not exactly what governor youngkin was proposing. he was proposing a 5-week ban. buff the democrats spent a ton of money. it was everywhere. every single thing that i would be watching in between changing diapers and giving a 9-m

mississippi governor _ about those? mississippi governor tait _ about those? tait reeves is i about those? mississippi i governor tait reeves is up for re—election, he is a republican going up against brandon priestley has ironic as elvis presley's second cousin a big family name there. brandon priestley has not upheld roe versus wade because there has not been a democrat elected on a statewide basis so it is a tough race for him but it has gotten some attention because we know democrats have increasingly paid attention to the black vote in many southern states, we know mississippi has a very large black population so that could definitely play a role in tonight �*s results, and virginia you have the house delegates in the state senate both up for re—election. these are very localised races, so even us in washington are not necessarily getting into the lead with some of the data coming out of his races but the results once we get them could tell us quite a bit about how republicans and democrats will message on key issues like abortion. we know virginia somewh

tate reeves has his own package in mississippi. about how the scandals have personally eroded his popularity in the state? >> certainly, a welfare funding scandal, money that had gone to the former nfl player brett favre's. it dominated the news, what seems like for a couple years right now in mississippi. it's similar in a way to what republicans were hoping for in kentucky. in kentucky, they were hoping that the weight of being associated with an unpopular national democratic party, unpopular democratic president and kentucky, would bring down and the pressure, even though he was well liked and had a high job approval rating. republicans and mississippi are looking at, reefs and they are not seeing somebody with the level of a job approval performance that bashir had a kentucky. they're seeing an incumbent with softer numbers. there are hoping that in mississippi, which biden lost by 16 points, that it will tip towards biden and the national democratic party will save reeves. now, presley is an interesting story to. he is a relat

mississippi did not bend. mississippi is not for sale. >> brooke: a judge extended polling hours after they ran out of ballots, attributing this to high turnout. >> carley: brooke singman, thank you. bring in tina ramirez. it appears abortion is a motivating factor, how do you view the outcomes from last night? >> this wasn't what we hoped for in virginia. i think republicans would have done better in virginia if they focused on the kitchen table issues that virginians care about, like the biden failed economy. issues that resonate with every voter and we see this in delegate ken taylor who won. she helped us flip the house two years ago, she just won reelection, one of the most competitive races that democrats tried to take back. she focused on the economy and she won. if republicans had done that across the board, we would have won more seats. >> carley: we'll talk to kim taylor about her victory last night. >> todd: everybody is talking about the economy all the time, the biden economy is destroying family'

with the exception of a of a slice of mississippi around the natchez area. that was an american hands and the creeks and the creek indians at the turn of the century. if you could imagine, as they controlled not only all of modern alabama, but also the western half of georgia, i mean, they controlled the best, best land. the the what is came to be known as the black belt because of the richness of the soil, the best land of the deep south was in the hand of the creeks. the creeks were today more commonly by the name they call themselves the muskogee numbered about, oh,. 20 to 25000 people. again, with this fast area of land, they were a sed in a sense. they had permanent villages. but they also depended on the . so they had a combination hunting and agricultural economy. they were really a fasng confederacy. they were they were not a nation like the cherokee. ere t real closely knit. the creeks owed their loy first and foremost to the village to which they belonged. and tower was independent foroys all intents purposes, they were generally located on rivers

thank you, eva. >>> now to mississippi. cnn's diane gal better joins us now from a canvass event for brandon presley, the challenger. why is this race all of a sudden so close? >> reporter: i think the question right now for people in mississippi, can this state election a democrat as governor. i have brandon presley here. this is the democratic candidate. this is your final event. you have crisscrossed the entire state. can mississippi actually elect a democrat as governor? >> i think we're going to win tonight. i've been in all 2 counties. the energy has been amazing. we have knocked over 260,000 doors throughout the state and we have more people ready to knock on more doors. >> reporter: i know you run on a populist message, how do you convince them to go? people say they have a hard time voting for someone who isn't a republican. >> we've got proud to get republican support throughout the campaign. i think this election is as much a referendum on saving our hospitals, ethics reform, and that reeves knows he's out of tou

and i think for mississippi, look, it's hard for dems to win in mississippi.t what i will say is because of that race, it's a tell don't give up on the south dems like we have georgia. this is this is a place, particularly a state like mississippi with such a large black population. when i zoom out, i think, you know, when glenn youngkin won in 2021, everybody was like, oh my god, the dems are going to throw it away in 2022. i think what voters are actually demanding is that they want people who are going to protect their freedoms. and 2022 in the midterms, abortion was on the ballot, but also voters said no to election deniers because they want to protect our democracy. and 2023 voters said no to extremism. um, on abortion in ohio, in virginia, and also in in kentucky and i think in 2024. the question is going to be who is going to move us forward? who is going to get is joe biden the person who is going to get the continue to get the country back on track and if it is up against donald trump, i know the polls that came out are not great and i would not ignor

presley is the second cousin of mississippi born elvis presley.o clear advantage in kentucky, besheer is trying to shake president biden popularity problem, the president lost by 25 points in 2020 and republican hope that will result in a win for daniel cameron, seeking to take charge of a state that is deep red. in virginia, we'll hear from governor youngkin and see if his pack's massive investment pays off. democrats have campaigned on the issue of abortion. virginia has not passed significant regulation when it comes to abortion. governor youngkin is pushing a 15-week limit, that is what he sees reasonable. >> ainsley: interesting in the state of mississippi, both candidates, republican and democrat, democrat is second cousin of elvis presley, they are both pro-life, even as democrat and roe v. wade, overturning that was hyped in mississippi. >> brian: right. kentucky, big red state. they want electoral votes. beshear is a moderate and could not get furth er away from the president. he is running as moderate and he's a reasonable one and camero

she doesn't trust any of the mississippi local officials. >> ms. wade, we are so sorry that you have lost your son, especially to have lost him in this way. i'll be thinking of you. thank you so much for your time and, ben crump, thank you as well. >>> critics in texas warn it could lead to state sanctioned racism. when you need to know about a border bill that the governor is set to sign and concerns it could put la tee knows in the state at risk. >>> the governor of texas is expected to sign a new bill makes entering texas illegal as a state crime. it also gives cops in texas the power to arrest migrants. state judges would have the ability to deport to mexico. more than 40% of the population is la know. some expressed fear about the risk of racial profight. >> are they going to look of the her skin color and make a determination, surely, she needs to be investigated for crossing? >> well. >> i think clearly the officers are going to -- >> this is not funny because my wife is hispanic. there's a difference when i'm driving a car, i see an officer

mississippi did not behind. mississippi is not for sale. >> peter: the polls have been terrible, terrible for president biden. motivating for democrats to get out, including and maybe especially abortion. back to you. >> steve: reelection referendum like that are about the incumbent president, the democrats at dny and white house want to make 2024 not about joe biden, but about donald trump and about the republican party's embrace of abortion ban out of step with majority of americans, as we saw yesterday. >> peter: yes and democratic position on abortion is well established and yesterday it was more popular. republicans have to figure out if there is something to put forward specifically regarding abortion that has people upset and people have not voted their feelings on overturning of roe v. wade. that will continue happening, we've seen it basically in every election like this since the supreme court did it. >> brian: and the midterm last year. >> ainsley: when you live in a purple state like you do, every co

the two governor races, kentucky and mississippi. in mississippi the incumbent tate reeves is leading but by single digits so far. this is deep, deep republican territory, though. his democratic challenger brandon presley state utility regulator, cousin of elvis pressley. if he managed to pull off a win here, deep red mississippi would be all shook up. if you've got a check now here in kentucky because andy beshear wins this race, called over daniel cameron. he really outperformed 2019. in 2019 he ran against matt bevin and only won by 5000 votes. here he outperformed and coal country, the incumbent democrat. daniel cameron underperformed where bevan was in some of those places and some counties he was supposed to do better in. five statewide referendums. you talk about virginia. this is really interesting because we don't have all of the data yet. these are individual races and control of the house and senate. governor glenn youngkin wants to take over control of all of the chambers in virginia. in the house there is a slight republ

that brings us to mississippi, and what is going on down there.mississippi governor tate reeves, elected relatively narrowly by five point margin between 2019, seeking a second term against democrat brendan pressley. let's take a look at what is going on in the mississippi, not all the votes have been counting. most of them have. , it is 6% are in run out, reeves, 52, presley, 46.6. the screen says too early to call, but i can tell you -- oh, timing is everything, isn't it? it no longer says too early to call. nbc news has formally declared tate reeves the republican incumbent governor reelected in mississippi to a second term. the timing on this is interesting because brandin pressley, the democrat, had actually conceded this race about an hour ago, but we wanted to make sure if mississippi is a little unique, it's a runoff state, so it was clear for a long time here that reeves was going to finish ahead of presley tonight, but it's a runoff state, 50% rule. he has to get 50% plus one to win tonight, if he had fallen under that number, with an in

let's start in mississippi, the governor's race in mississippi, two thirds of the vote at the republican incumbent tate reeves leading presley by 11 points. two key points here i think if you look at these numbers. number one is, we have been waiting all night for the largest county in the state, hinds county, where the state capital of jackson's, it's a core overwhelming democratic county. they just started to report their polls. the polls were open later than any other state because they had issues with ballot availability. you see 13% counted in hines, and it's 86 to basically 13 for presley said this is a big vote producing county and there are a lot more presley votes to come from out of here. that's an opportunity for presley to gain and for reeves to fall. rest of the state, what we have seen so far, we'd like to see there is a pattern. reeves won this race in 2019 by five points. we use this as a bench part when results come in. especially winning five points better in any given county then in 2019. honestly, there are some counties where he is absolutely doing that, and there ar

and let's start in mississippi. and the governor's race in mississippi. 2 now two-thirds of the vote in. republican incumbent tate reeves leading brandon presley by 11 points. two key points i think as you look at these numbers. number one is we've been waiting all night for the largest county in the state that's hines county where the state capitol of jackson is, it's a core overwhelming democratic county. they just started reporting the polls. we're open later there because there were issues of ballot viability. it's 86 to basically 13 for presley. this is a big vote producing county. that's certainly an opportunity for presley to gain and for reeves to fall. in the rest of the state we've been looking to see if there's a pattern because reeves won this race in 2019 by 5 points. we've kind of been using that as a bench mark as results come in. is presley running 5 points better than the democrat in 2017? there are some counties where he's absolutely doing that, and there are some counties where he's falling far sh

in 2019, there was kind of momentous occasion in mississippi politics.the democrats in the 2019 race against white reeves, one madison county. it was the first time in more than three decades, that i carried the county. so they came into the night thinking, they could win it again. and the question was, could they expand on the margin. again this is a big county, in terms of population. so if democrats are already won it, it could improve on that. that would really put pressley in a much better position, but instead it seems to have reverted to form here reeves is gonna carry. that's a huge disappointment. huge disappointment for democrats. is that became clear. again outside of, right side of jackson, and south of madison county. is the second largest county in the state, big suburban republican county. this is where tate reeves grew up, ranking country not on the votes counted yet. but you see it's a 34 point, basically advantage for reeves over pressley. reeves won this thing back in 2019, he won it by 26. again, this is one where pressley wanted to b

in mississippi. john king, you're looking exactly at what i want you to be looking at, which is kentucky. we have 66% of the vote in. i know. we're still waiting. and i know that anything could happen. but boy, governor beshear has got to be feeling pretty good right now, i would think. >> very good. very good. look, there's no reason to get way out ahead of the numbers, right? that is a path your eyes tell you. your eyes don't lie to you. you have a democratic incumbent in a very tough climate who just barely won last time by about 6000 votes, who's 37,000 votes ahead with 52% of the vote, 52 to 48. that's a four point race. it's competitive. so you could say, why don't you call it? well, because he's ahead. let's just say he's ahead. he's running an impressive campaign. he's meeting all his tests. but you see the gray there are still 13, 14 counties. last time i counted where we have no votes yet. no votes. most of them. i'll just pop one up randomly. monroe county, bottom part of the state, there'

the two governors races, kentucky and mississippi. in mississippi, the incumbent, tate reevessissipps, leading, bt single digits coming in so far. this is deep, deep republican territory, though. and his democratic challenger, democratpresley, state utility regulator, cousin of the elvis presley. if he managed to pull off a win here, you know, deep red would be all shook up. >> all right. so if you've got a check now here in kentucky, because andy beshearchec wins this racei called over daniel camerons , he really outperformed 2019 back in 2019. you may remember, he ran againsy 9.t matt bevin, only won by 5000 votes here. he outperformed in coal country. beshear did the incumbent democrated and c and, daniel ca, underperformed where bevin wasns in some of those places, in some of those counties that he was supposed to do better in five statewide referendums. you talked about virginia? ly it now, this is really interestingr because we don't have all of the data yet because these are individual races in controlof of the house. in the se

you mentioned mississippi earlier. spent the weekend before last, two, maybe three days in mississippi. i've been in other states as well on my way to virginia on sunday, tomorrow, or monday. and i'm not getting that. i go throughout south carolina all the time. last weekend i was in charleston, in columbia, in orangeburg. i'm not getting that. i don't know what's going on with this polling. i guarantee you -- >> what are you getting? >> i'm getting that african americans are very pleased with this president and what he has done. we know how we're connecting every home and every business in south carolina to the internet. we know this because of this infrastructure bill that he did. we know that seniors are now paying much less for their medicine, most especially for negotiations going on with medicare, the cap of $35 a month for insulin. we know who is responsible for all of that. and so -- >> congressman -- let me just open here. one more thing i want to bring to you. nobody is going to challenge your connection to s

diane gallagher is covering all the action she is in jackson, mississippi. and diane, the king elvis is he actually playing any sort of role in this race? >> i can tell you that the democratic candidate, brandon pressley, has not shied away from mentioning his very famous second cousin. but what they say they're paying attention to more is exactly what you see here in jackson right now. these lines that are sort of snaking around the new jerusalem baptist church polling place that we're in at the moment. and part of that is because for the first time since 1890, voting for governor in mississippi will be determined only by the popular vote. they amended the state constitution to reform the way that all statewide officials, including governors, are elected. under the old system, candidates had to win a majority of the popular vote and a majority of state house districts. now, voting rights groups as well as democrats have long said that that old process that it diluted black voters and mississippi has the highest percentage of black residents in the nation. n

mississippi and kentucky.on tuesday, especially as we look for signs about how 2024 will play out? >> right. i'm definitely watching that gubernatorial reelection race in kentucky. i'm also watching the virginia state house fight. we know that will be tight in both the house of delegates and the state senate. and it will be indicative of whether or not republicans in virginia can advance an anti-abortion agenda as well as an anti voting rights agenda. this will be front and center, and still be indicative of whether a voting rights, protecting our democracy, protecting access to abortion are going to be key features, keep mobilizing figures across the parliament once in 2024 because we know that the length democrats fully expect to play in, as it yielded them history defiant results in 2022, and they're looking to do the same in 2024. >> juanita tolliver and susan del percio, thank you both for being with us. up next, the attorney general for black america, ben crump, joins us with the latest on a shocking cas

. >> republicans did get a win in the mississippi governor's race. incumbent tate reeves defeated his opponent, a relative of elvis presley. and abortion was not directly on the ballot, but it is believed to be a strong factor in the results. >> and ohio is the latest state to enshrine reproductive rights in its state's constitution with the passage of issue 1, that means that republicans won't be able to redistrict abortion access for abortion around 4 to 5 months of pregnancy. >> reporter: and abortion rights are enshrined in the ohio constitution, that is the result here in ohio according to cnn projections, the first republican state to take such a move. and this was a hard battle fought on both sides of what is known as issue one. the effort to enshrine those rights in the state constitution. when skrn called thecnn pronlgs the results, i want you to listen to this room. it is a watch party of those who supported issue one. [ cheers ] >> reporter: you hear the cheering and i saw a woman burst into tears. it was jubilation as the results were rea

i'm fired up because mississippi has momentum, and this is mississippi's time. >> reporter: and in philadelphia, history was made. >> i'm philly born, i'm philly bred, and i'll be a feill philadelphian until i'm dead. >> reporter: democrats say continue to expect abortion to be front and center as they will continue to elevate the issues they argue most americans care about as they try to replicate these victories in 2024. phil, poppy. >> eva mckend, thank you very much. joinings now, jeff mason, cofounder of -- former republican governor of georgia, jeff duncan. democrats feeling momentum they needed this morning after that polling from biden. what do you make of abortion in ohio, is that just ohio and just abortion or a push for dems across the nation pushing them into 2024? >> i think voters are nuanced and sophisticated than the polls pick up. while i think abortion has been a key issue, not only we saw that in the midterms but we saw it last night that i think women and young voters in particular are performing or responding to that, but i think there are other issues as well, marijuana pa

also voters in kentucky, ohio and mississippi headed to the polls.y big races, big initiatives throughout the country. joining us now, cnn chief national affairs analyst, kasie hunt. back with us, john avlon. particularly in the 24 hours of sheer panic and doom in the democratic party after, i guess it was 46 hours, after "the new york times" polling which was by all accounts not great for the current president, you look at the map today, and you look at the races that are up, the initiatives that are up, and you say this could be a day that when it's over, people might exhale a little bit. what do you think is going to happen there? >> i don't know if anything will stop democrats from fretting, as you know, phil, because there's always going to be a lot of hand wringing behind the scenes. this is going to be a key test for democrats of whether abortion still carries the potency it has in the last couple of election cycles. are voters focused on it. are they afraid of losing rights they have historically had when roe v. wade still stood. is it still

kentucky and mississippi. >> yeah. ruby red to say the least. donald trump won kentucky by 26 points over joe biden in 2020. you've got andy beshear, probably the most popular democratic governor in the country even though he's the governor of a very deep red state, and rising star in the republican party the attorney general in the commonwealth, daniel cameron, in a close battle. and i think, you know, a key question here is can beshear even with his popularity overcome the political dna of kentucky especially with biden -- where biden is right n now. and in mississippi the elvis presley connection. tate reeves dealing way public corruption scandal. this would be the shock of the night. it may be close but if the democrat presley actually defeats the incumbent republican governor of mississippi that would be a shock. >> and obviously -- go ahead. >> no, go ahead. >> i was going to say we noted 363 days before the election next year. very early. but if you were reading the tea leaves what would you be looking for tonight that could be an indicat

except in mississippi. >> ainsley: the reason was and they will appreciate this in mississippi beingm the south, the reason he was pro--he was pro-life, presley, as a democrat was because of he, you know, loves the lord. and he felt like that was lord to opinion. >> brian: donald trump, talk about messaging. trump said got ridiculed. work something out on a compromise not a good issue for us. ron desantis, and nikki haley and everyone jumped all over him, and tim scott. and in the end, donald trump's instincts on the issue regardless of his personal feelings, are 100 percent right. he said this is not a good political issue for us. >> steve: he said they have some terrible state level restrictions. and he has also said that state politicians have spoken inarticulately about abortion. this particular issue, i think, is what is -- might put a smile on joe biden's face. after the terrible polls he has had in the last week, i think he thinks and his people around him are saying if abortion is going to be a big thing, you would be able to win on that alone. and brian, to your point about

let's take a look here at mississippi. the governor's race in mississippi. you see about half the vote is the, in the republican incumbent, tate reeves, as a 14-point advantage, but i think that could be a bit deceptive. this is going to tighten. the question is, how much is this going to tighten? one thing to keep in mind, when reeves got elected four years, ago the margin was only five points. the base question tonight in any given county is, is pressley running by marriage and five points better than the democrat when four years earlier, when he's doing that in a county where that post impotently in on track to win, this also runoff possibility here. he needs to basically improved by about five points in any given county. let's look at a couple of we've got voting from. de soto county, right outside memphis, tennessee, a big fast growing can tri-county, tate reeves is leading this county by 18 points. four years ago tate leaves won this by 23 points. so pressley has shaped five points right now off of reeves advantage. we'll see what happens with the rema

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a 15 week ban in mississippi got us to the dobb's decision in the first place and mississippi is livingder a total abortion ban and has been for about a year and a half. i think we can chalk this surprising success of the gubernatorial candidate there partly up to that reality. they have not forgotten about dobbs. but we saw this strategy of the 15 week compromise fall on its face in virginia because voters saw through it. they understood and abortion ban is a ban. this was a crucial part of the republican strategy to rebrand themselves after the dobbs decision. i think they're going to want to abort that strategy. i don't see that happening in the next 15 weeks. i think they're going to have to carry it to turn or at least until the next election in 2024. the other signature republican strategy was off on its face is in kentucky where somewhere in the order of $6 million was spent by right-wing groups attacking andy beshear for vetoing a bill that would have banned gender for me care for minors. this anti-transfer mongering did not work. chefs kiss. i love that $6 million might has wel