Speaker 1: Let's stay in Arizona, where the
Arizona House, not the Senate, but the House in Arizona has voted to repeal the 1864. Not a typo.
Not a joke, folks. 1864 near-total abortion ban, which includes no exceptions for rape, no
exceptions for incest, which was triggered into force by the overturning of Roe v Wade
at the Supreme Court and the upholding of the 1864 abortion law by the Arizona Supreme Court.
This is to call it antiquated is not nearly as strong enough word. This is dark ages, grotesque
stuff. And there are some in Arizona who are ready to say no more. The Washington Post reports
Arizona House votes to repeal Civil War era abortion ban. Three Republicans crossed party
lines to vote with Democrats. So understand that all but three Republicans in the Arizona
House want to keep this bill if passed by the Senate. The Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, says
that she will sign it. Here is a report from ABC 15 in Arizona about what took place yesterday.
Speaker 2: Breaking news coming from the state Capitol right now, where the Arizona House just
voted to repeal that near-total ban on abortions from 1864. It's that territorial era law that the
Arizona Supreme Court ruled to reinstate just two weeks ago. Now, this was a narrow margin here. It
was a 32 to 28 vote in the Arizona House. And as we mentioned, it comes just two weeks after the
state Supreme Court issued that historic ruling to reinstate that restriction, only allowing
exceptions in cases when the life of the mother was endangered. Now, this is just the first
step of several that needs to take place in the legislative process. So from here, now that it's
passed in the Arizona House, it's going to have to go to the Senate, where it would then have
to be signed by Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, who's already said that she would support it.
Now, in a statement that just came in, Governor Katie Hobbs says that she is, quote, thankful to
House Democrats for leading this effort and calls on the Senate to approve this measure quickly.
Speaker 1: So now it goes on to the Senate, and that will be the next question mark surrounding
this. We have a situation in the United States right now that doesn't often take place, to be
perfectly frank. And that situation is that we have a Republican Party that is mostly happy with.
Bragging about. And when it comes to Donald Trump taking credit for something that is very unpopular
with the American people. And no matter how many Arizona Republicans insist this is a pro-life
state, it's a pro-life state. And this is the right law for us, no matter how many of them claim
that Arizona is a purple state. And even many Republicans at this point in time, given the 60 to
80% support for abortion being legal in most cases in the country. Even Arizona is a state where
a majority says that abortion should be legal in most cases. So now we have a real question.
Are we going to see voters vote in accordance with what their political views are? Are we going
to see Republican voters in Arizona say, okay, I'm a Republican, I want low regulation. I want
low taxes, whatever else historically Republicans want. But when it comes to the threat to democracy
that Trump presents, when it comes to just the basics of a woman's bodily autonomy and right
to decide for herself with whoever she wants to consult with, not involving the government, what
is the right medical decision for her? I can't stick with these dark ages Republicans anymore.
I can't stick with this faux populist Trumpian nonsense anymore. And maybe some will stay
home, and maybe some will vote for Joe Biden or whatever the case may be. And then is that
going to happen at the federal level? Trump goes back and forth as to how he wants to play
this. Trump sometimes will take credit and say, I did that. I repealed Roe v Wade through the
three Supreme Court justices I selected who ultimately voted to repeal it. You can thank or
blame me for it. He has been very clearly saying, well, most people say blame rather than think
because they don't like it. Are they going to vote in accordance with that in November? On the other
hand, Trump has also taken a different approach, which is, listen, different things are right for
different states. Some conservative states might do one thing with abortion. Some conservative,
some liberal states might do something different. It's all good as long as you vote for me is sort
of like the hidden ellipses statement there. And there are many anti-choice who are furious with
Trump. Fine. You repealed Roe v Wade. But how can you say that you're okay with states doing sort
of whatever they want to do? That's not right. And maybe they will punish Trump in November as
well. So I don't know what's going to happen. I still believe that at the end of the day, this is
a presidential election that will come down to, as they have every time. Recently, somewhere
between 100,000 and 500,000 votes in somewhere between 3 and 5, maybe three and six states. If a
ton of people in California are really angry with the the overturning of Roe v Wade, and it grows
Biden's margin of victory by half a million votes, great. It's not going to change the electoral
outcome because California is not in play. And those I believe it's 55 electoral votes. Those
are going for Biden, whether it's by a 30, 40 or 50 point margin. And so I hope I'm being
clear and precise here when I explain how what will matter is what happens in Pennsylvania as a
result of Trump bragging about getting Roe v Wade overturned. What happens in Arizona or Georgia,
Michigan and Wisconsin? And I don't have the answer, but what I know is I'll be getting out to
vote. I know I'm a broken record on this by now, but I'm not going to let someone else vote and
have no voice myself. I will make sure to vote. And that's the approach I believe that we should
all be taking. So let's take a quick break. We're going to hear from just a couple of sponsors.
Unless you have the commercial free members only feed of the show. I want to talk about
the Gateway Pundit bankruptcy, which many of you wrote to me about, and so many other things,
including a recent speech that Joe Biden gave, which I thought was quite interesting, many,
many interesting things on today's program.
