![]() ![]() That makes even McCarthy’s elevation as Speaker uncertain. On one hand, it seems more likely than not that the GOP will eventually end up holding the House majority - theoretically putting McCarthy within reach of the Speaker’s gavel that he has long coveted.īut the GOP majority, if it comes into existence at all, will be very thin. To say Tuesday offered a mixed bag for McCarthy would be putting it mildly. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) may achieve the House speakership, but if he does, he will have a much slimmer majority than he previously anticipated. MIXED House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) Taken together, the results are a clear demonstration of where the public stands on the issue - even if a majority of Supreme Court justices don’t see things the same way. The liberal side is also in the lead in the fifth state, Montana. The pro-abortion rights side won at least four of them - no surprise in liberal redoubts California and Vermont but much more striking in Kentucky and, to some degree, Michigan. In another major development, five states held ballot measures, different in their specific wording but all centered on the abortion question. Some vigorous supporters of abortion rights were reelected as governor on Tuesday, notably Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer and New York’s Kathy Hochul. Many states will be protected from the most prohibitive effects of the June Supreme Court ruling. Wade nears its close.īut Election Day gave them considerable comfort. Proponents of abortion rights probably don’t feel much like winners as a year that saw the overturning of Roe v. ![]() The results of the midterms gave abortion rights activists a glimmer of hope in a discouraging year. ![]()
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