Brooks and Capehart on the appointment of a special counsel in the Hunter Biden case

Jonathan Capehart:

It says that people are still angry.

A year ago, we were talking about the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade, and then Kansas voted. Kansas was the Ohio of 2022, where folks were like, whoa, ruby-red Kansas did this thing that protected abortion rights. Then came Kentucky. Then came Montana. Now is Ohio, a state that Donald Trump won by eight points in the last presidential election.

What that tells me is that people are really angry and they're concerned about Republicans taking the overturning of Roe and then in various states and jurisdictions turning that — like, doing bans on steroids, to the point where Florida has a six-week abortion ban. There are other abortion bans that have no exceptions at all for the life of the mother, rape or incest.

And people — and women not being able to get the reproductive health care or just plain health care that they need, and left up to a board, and we're reading stories about people being disabled or losing their lives as a result of this. People are reading these stories. People are seeing what's happening.

And, again, in the midterm elections, we learn that the American people are very nuanced. They can care about inflation and gas — high gas prices, but also erosion of their fundamental rights. And that is still the case, as we saw in Ohio.

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