Democrats Win Special Election; House Votes to Impeach Mayorkas

Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.799 Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Amy Morris. Here 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:14.760 are the stories we're following today. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.040 Let's start with politics and results from the special election 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.239 in New York. Tom Swazi and Mozzi Pillup squared off 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:23.080 in a race for the seat left open by former 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.360 Representative George Santos, and Democrats came out victorious in New 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.600 York's third district. Tom Swazi won the contest with fifty 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.680 four percent of the vote. Bloomberg'slaura Namias says the race 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.200 was viewed as a bellweather for November's election. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.120 We did talk to some voters out in the district 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.520 who said that they were casting their ballots for Swazi 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.080 because they wanted Democrats to retake control of the House, 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.680 less because of any personal attachment to Tom Swazi than 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.200 because they wanted control of the House of Representatives to 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.760 switch back to Democrats. They were concerned about abortion rights, 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.960 the future of democracy. They were concerned about some of 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.360 the things that had happened during the Trump presidency, and 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.600 about whether or not Democrats could keep democracy afloat. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.279 Bloomberg's Law Anamius notes Tom Swazi had represented New York's 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.000 third for three terms until George Santos claimed his seat. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:20.000 The victory for Democrats narrows Republicans' thin majority in the House. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.080 The GOP now has just a six member advantage in 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:23.640 the chamber. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.759 The special election came on the same day the House 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:31.080 impeach Tallejandrei. New Yorkis Republicans voted by the narrowest possible 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.280 margin to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary after failing in 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.680 their first attempt last week. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:38.959 the final tally. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.880 On this vote, the Yaser two fourteen and the NASER 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:42.759 two thirteen. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.720 The resolution is adopted, New. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.600 Yorcus becomes the second cabinet member in US history to 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.200 be impeached. The first came nearly one hundred and fifty 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.560 years ago. The effort is likely to die in the Senate, 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.880 where a two thirds majority is needed to remove may 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:57.960 Orcus from office. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.600 Man staying in Washington, Amy Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.920 back on the job. He was released from the hospital 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.760 last night. He underwent a procedure for a bladder problem. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.680 Bloomberg Zed Baxter has the details. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.960 The doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center say they identified 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.480 what was causing him pain and the bladder issue related 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:19.639 to his prostate surgery was rectified in a non surgical procedure. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.680 They say the prognosis from his prostate cancer surgery is 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:28.080 still good. Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh says he 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.920 will participate in the Virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group because 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:33.280 of its importance. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.200 If US support waivers, we know Putin is not going 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.120 to stop in his war in Ukraine. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.160 Austin is expected to host the meeting today about fifty countries. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.240 Ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.440 All right, thank you, Ed. Turning now to the markets. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.600 We start overseas, where an inflation surprise in the UK 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.760 is giving a boost to British docks. Data show UK 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.840 consumer prizes rose less than expected in January, largely due 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.760 to downward trends in the cost of food and household goods. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:01.880 We get more from Bloomberg's Lizzie Burden. 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:07.079 In London, inflation has unexpectedly held steady at four percent 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.600 when economists thought it would rise. Core inflation was lower 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.080 than economist's thought five point one percent, and even the 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.239 monthly number for inflation came in at zero point six percent, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.760 so double the expected drop. So I can hear the 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.639 relief from the Bank of England and I can hear 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.400 it on Downing Street as well. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.760 Bloomberg's Lizzie Burden notes the data has traders moving up 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.960 bets for a rate cut from the Bank of England. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.600 The pound weakened on the news, currently trading at one 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.880 point two five thirty nine against the dollar. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.000 And back here in the US, Amy, we are coming 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.040 off a tough day for stocks. The S and P 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.360 five hundred fell one point three percent after hot US 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.280 inflation data pushed back bets for a FED rate cut. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.240 Now the question is will the sell off continue. Jean 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.200 Bouvaugh is head of black Rock Investment Institute. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.040 The market is overreacting. That has been the story for 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.720 the last eighteen months. We've seen that in December with 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:03.440 the shocker FMC massive rally right and now that was overextended. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.720 I think that's getting corrected as we speak. But I 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.320 think the broader story will be one where in fish 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.119 is going to continue to trend down over the next 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:11.520 few months. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.760 We're going to see CODs. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.440 Jehan Bovana brought black Rock Investment Institute still sees a 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.440 soft landing insight. This morning, US futures are signaling a 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.200 rebound from yesterday's losses. 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.000 Now some stots on the move. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:23.640 This morning. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.239 Shares of Airbnb are down about five percent in early trading. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.599 Earnings from the company initially came in strong, but Airbnb 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.000 says overall demand is coming down in the current quarter. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.640 It notes this quarter last year was especially strong thanks 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.320 to revenge travel coming off the pandemic. Now, Airbnb says 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.239 demand is starting to normalize. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.720 And shares of Lift are living up to their name. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.560 This morning, amy they're up about fifteen and a half 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.120 percent in the pre market. The right hailing company posted 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.640 earnings in line with estimates and issued a forecast that 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.840 was better than expected. Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett has the details. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.359 It shows efforts to boost ridership are paying off. The 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.880 company said gross bookings, which represent the total value of 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.160 transactions invoice to writers, will be about three and a 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.320 half to three point six billion dollars in the first 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:13.000 three months of the year. Analysts we're expecting three point 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.080 four to eight billion on average. Lift has struggled to 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.239 compete with large arrival Uber, and the two have spent 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.840 fiercely to recruit and retain enough drivers to meet demand, 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.320 which has bounced back after a plunge during the pandemic 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.360 in New York. Charlie Pellet Bloomberg Radio. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.880 Thank you, Charlie. We also have news on the world's 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.320 second richest man. We are learning Jeff Bezo sold another 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.240 two billion dollars of Amazon shares on top of the 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.480 two billion dollars of chares he sold last week. Regulatory 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.000 filings show the sales took place over just four trading days. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.200 Shares of Amazon are up eleven percent so far this year. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.440 Now, let's get a look at some of the stories 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.880 making news in New York and around the world with 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.400 Bloomberg'smichael bar Good morning, Michael. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.479 Good morning, Nathan. The cleanup continues from yesterday snowstorm that 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.000 hit the Tri State area. People have been out shoveling 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.000 heavy snow. The New York City Department of Sanitation Commissioner 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.680 Jessica Tish had a message for residents in a news 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:09.719 conference last night. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.560 The temperatures are going to go down below freezing and 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.839 we could have flash freezes on the sidewalks. We want 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.400 those sidewalks safe. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.440 Audio courtesy of ABC seven New York City schools put 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.000 about a million school kids on remote learning, but there 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.839 were technical issues throughout the day. This woman had trouble 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.320 getting her sons online. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.600 If you weren't logged into your account by the time 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.520 that they started having problems, you couldn't get in. 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.640 Central Park officially recorded three point two inches of snowfall 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.760 In upstate New York, Warwick got thirteen point four. More 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.080 than three thousand flights were canceled or delayed at Northeast Airports. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.040 In Brooklyn, a seventy four year old woman died after 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.240 she was struck by falling bricks from a brownstone a 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.200 thirty c A large chunk of the decorative brick facade 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.560 above the entrance door fell from the three story building 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.560 at sixth Avenue and fifty fourth Street. The woman was 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.440 clearing snow from the steps when the facade collapsed. Secretary 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.720 of State Anthony Blincoln says efforts are continuing the free 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.600 Americans detained in Russia. Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons has an update. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.520 Secretary Blincoln says he's spoken with Paul Wheelan this week. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.120 He's the former marine who is detained in Russia on 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.960 charges of espionage charges that he and the US deny 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:24.520 are intensive. 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.480 Efforts to bring Paul home continue every single day, and 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.720 they will until he and Evan Gerskovitch and every other 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.000 American wrongfully detained. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.400 It's back with their loved ones. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.320 Avan Gershkovitch is a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.800 who is arrested for spying. Blincoln was speaking on hostage 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.640 diplomacy at the Wilson Center, a think tank for global 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.080 affairs in Washington. Nancy Lyons, Bloomberg, Radio. 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.840 Tesla, and newscarp faced some of the earliest regulatory enforcement 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:57.240 actions under New York City's closely watch pay transparency law. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.560 The city alleges the businesses ignored the rec requirement to 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.840 include salary ranges in job ads or posted such wide 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.800 salary bands that they did not qualify as good faith estimates. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.840 Global News twenty four hours a day and whenever you 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.440 want it with the Bloomberg News Now. I'm Michael Barr. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:15.840 This is Bloomberg. Nathan. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:23.320 Okay, Michael, thank you. Time out for the Bloomberg Sports update, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.040 brought to you by Tri State out Here's John stash Out. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.480 Thanks Nathan. Best team in the NBA was in Brooklyn. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.600 The Celtics forty two and twelve. They got forty one 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.439 points from Jason Tatum. They beat the Nets one eighteen 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:34.719 to one. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:35.000 Ten. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.640 Seeing two teams play tonight in Boston, Knicks play tonight 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.080 in Orlando. The Nick injuries continue there without their top 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.440 two centers, their entire starting front court is injured, and 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.920 how Dante Divincenzo's played so well if late has an 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:48.760 injured hamstring questionable for tonight. 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:49.600 Nicks come off the. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.720 Heartbreaker in Houston when the foul that the NBA admits 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.680 should not have been called was called at the end 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.160 of the game. The Knicks app filed the protest, but 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:00.560 protests can't be upheld based on a miss only the 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.959 misapplication of a rule on the ice Devils with three 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.400 and the third one four to two at Nashville Islanders 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.120 one scoreless of the shootout and lost at home to 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.480 Seattle two to one. Saint John's lost that Providence seventy 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.280 five seventy two. Red Storm have now dropped seven of 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.080 the last nine. They stormed the court at Syracuse after 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.440 an upset win over seventh rank North Carolina. In Fort 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.760 Saint Lucie today, met pitchers and catchers report the big 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.680 met change. A new manager at buckshow Walter Out replaced 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.160 by former Yankee bench coach Carlos Mendoza. Here he was 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:30.320 at his presser last fall. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.480 I'm not just creating a new goalship. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.960 People need to understand that this is a team that 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:43.120 won one Hungred games nuts Lonigal and they started to 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:44.280 create something special. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.280 And I'm coming in to continue to. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:48.240 Out to dot Coulture. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.600 Nets did win one hundred and one games in twenty 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.520 twenty two, but only seventy five wins last season, and 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.760 they were relatively quiet in the offseason. Yankee pitchers and 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.120 catchers report tomorrow and Tampa. A lot of free agents 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.600 have yet to sign, but after the Joorge, Solare did 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.560 sign with the Giants. He had thirty six homers last 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.480 year in Miami. Johns Stanshaward Bloomberg Sports. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.400 From coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:16.360 Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on Syrias, Exam the Bloomberg 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.560 Business app in Bloomberg dot com. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.839 Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. The special election results are 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.559 in and the margins and the House are about to 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.960 get even thinner. Democrat Tom Swazi has prevailed over Republican 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.840 Mazi Melissa Phillip in New York's third congressional district and 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.280 the race to move past a disgraced Republican former Congressman 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:42.080 George Santos. Bloomberg Politics contributor Geenie she Sheenzano joins us 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.640 early this morning after election night in the New York Third. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.920 But I'm guessing, Genie that you weren't staying up too 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.560 late to watch the results come in. Even with the 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.880 polls pretty tight, it seems like it didn't take a 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.880 whole lot of time for the Associated Press to call 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.240 this race. So what was the decisive factor here for 0:10:58.360 --> 0:10:59.040 Tom Swase? 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.760 You know, I think the decisive factor for Suase was 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.760 there were a few things. Number one is that he 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.679 was able to counter this race in terms of immigration, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.400 and so much of this race focused on immigration. He 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.840 was able to say to his opponent, and he was 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.560 able to say to Republicans at voters that he is 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.440 a moderate and that he wants to work across the 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.320 aisle to deal with the issue of immigration, which, let's 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.880 face it, for New Yorkers is a very big issue. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.840 One hundred and seventy thousand migrants in the city now, 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.440 and so he was able to contest that. But the 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.760 other thing he was able to do is he was 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.360 able to say that he is somebody who they know. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.240 He's a known quality quantity rather for people on Long 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.080 Island and in this New York Third District, And of 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.600 course they are just out of having been served by 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.920 George Santos, and so would they really want to take 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.199 a chance on somebody unknown like Mazi Philip Pillup. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.880 And of course the answer turned out to be no. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.600 So he was also helped by the fact that he 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.120 is a known quantity in that district. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.920 When it comes to the immigration issue, Genie, I mean, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.520 it's got to resonate differently in a place like New 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.959 York or the New York suburbs, like the Third District, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.320 that it does in a lot of other districts across 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.880 the country. Right, So can we see this as a 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.280 bell weather for the rest of the country, given how 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.439 immigration might play differently in different parts of the country. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.319 Yeah, I don't know if we can see it as 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.719 a bell weather, but it does give democrats in districts 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.600 like this, and there are a lot of them across 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.440 the country, a map and a way forward as they 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.160 contest in November, and that is not to shy away 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.960 from this issue. And this was one thing Swazi did 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.520 very well is he did not say, you know, oh, 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.640 I'm going to give this issue to the Republicans. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.439 He took it on. He said, close the border. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.720 He said, due to the violence that has occurred in 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.800 New York City at the hands of migrants, they should 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.480 be deported. He said he would have supported that bill 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.000 that came up just the other week in Congress that 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.400 the Republicans shot down. And I think that is a 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.000 big issue for voters, is the fact that there was 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.040 a solution, and by all sort of accounts, it was 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.679 everything Republicans had asked for, a really tough bipartisan immigration 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:23.040 security bill, and they didn't go for it because it 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.439 would have hurt Donald Trump at the ballot in November. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.560 And that's something Swazi raised over and over again. So 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.080 those factors, I think are things that other Democrats running 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.520 in purple districts can look at and use as they 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.319 try to handle what's going to be a tough issue 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.000 for them going forward in November. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.320 It was interesting to hear from some voters that we 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.679 spoke to saying or suggesting that they were voting for Swazi, 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:53.680 not necessarily for him, but against Republicans the idea that 0:13:54.720 --> 0:14:00.000 they could affect abortion rights, that they could undermine democracy 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.079 the way that democratic voters are seeing it. What could 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.760 that say about races going forward into November. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.160 Yeah, and that was the other thing, is this issue 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.720 of abortion and democracy. You know, there was one debate 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.880 in this campaign, and Mazzi Phillips struggled a bit on 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.840 the issue of abortion. She was pinned down on whether 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.160 she was pro choice. She is clearly personally pro life, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.040 but she was unable or unwilling to say that she 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.800 disagreed with the decision. And Dobbs she did say that 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.440 it is a woman's choice, but it was hard to 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:34.520 pin down where. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:35.440 She was on that issue. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.680 And that's something that we've seen in the special elections 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.040 that have occurred since Dobbs across the country has played 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.560 well for Democrats. So between that and concerns about January 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:49.359 sixth and the future of democracy, it's something that Democrats 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.320 are going to be talking about. And you know who 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.120 wasn't raised a lot in this race was Donald Trump, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.280 So he didn't become much of an issue, and of 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.040 course neither did Joe Biden, who neither campaigned for Tom swase. 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.680 And who Tom Swasee even called old. So he did. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.640 Distance himself from the unpopular president, and Donald Trump was 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.240 not as much of a factor, which made this erase 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.600 about what's impacting the people in New York three and 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.440 the voters had a chance to think about that. 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