Abortion and Medicaid expansion are hot topics.
over the weekend, avoiding a runoff and handing Republicans a victory in one of the few southern states that was controlled by a Democratic governor.Daniel Cameron. Abortion has emerged as a major flash point in the race with the two trading barbs over the issue during a debate earlier this week. Brandon Presley, a Democrat and member of the state Public Service Commission — has made expanding Medicaid a key part of his campaign as he squares off against incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.
Last November, abortion rights supporters defeated a measure to explicitly state that nothing in the state constitution creates a right to an abortion. Abortion has been featured prominently in at least three broadcast television ads from Beshear’s campaign,In one such ad, a woman reveals she was raped by her stepfather when she was 12, pushing the issue of exceptions — terrain— claim Beshear supports allowing children to obtain abortions without parental consent.
“Mississippi hospitals are closing. Thirty-four others, barely hanging on, and thousands of health-care workers are losing their jobs,” one narrator says. “Experts say expanding Medicaid could fix the problem, but still this governor refuses.
, with several of Pritzker’s staffers to begin splitting their time between the governor’s political work and the new organization.
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