Last Tuesday, voters across the country approved measures to protect abortion rights, while rejecting the presidential candidate who claimed to champion those same rights. Kate Zernike, who covers the issue for The Times, explains that gap and what it tells us about the new politics of abortion. Guest: Kate Zernike, a national reporter at The New York Times, writing most recently about abortion.
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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Baro.
This is the Daily Last Tuesday, voters across the country approved measures to protect abortion rights while rejecting the presidential candidate who claimed to champion those same rights.
Today, my colleague Kate Zernegi explains that gap and what it tells us about the new politics of abortion.
It's Tuesday, November 12th.
Kate so much of the focus on Election Day was quite naturally on the race for president.
And I think as a result, a lot of us, and here I'm guilty myself, didn't quite understand how much abortion was on the ballot.
And literally not in that spiritual way that we sometimes talk about in political reporting that something is on the ballot.
No, this was actually on the ballot.
That's right.
So in 10 states and pretty diverse states across the country, there were amendments on the ballot to establish abortion rights in the state constitution.
This was a record number of ballot measures on abortion.
In seven of those 10 states, those amendments won.
So quick math, that's a 70% victory rate in all of these states and has to be seen as a very big win for abortion rights.