It was an expected outcome, but one
that fired up Georgians on both sides.
Earlier this week,
a federal appeals court allowed the state's
restrictive abortion law to take effect.
Now most abortions are banned once
a doctor can detect a heartbeat,
which is usually about six weeks
into a pregnancy.
Joining me now is Chuck Todd,
Moderator of NBC's Meet the Press.
So Chuck Governor Kemp said this week
he was happy about the decision.
But as far as a lot of other
Republicans haven't really seen a lot
of public rejoicing or comments at
all seems like they kind of want to.
Keep the focus on the economy,
so is that the right decision for them?
You think when it comes to the
elections and and will Democrats
be able to make abortion a midterm
issue in Georgia as well?
Look politically what you're hearing from
those Republicans that make sense to me.
I understand that I've talked to plenty
of Republican strategists who quietly
are petrified of the abortion politics.
It's you know. Republicans always felt
like they had the advantage when it came
to the abortion politics when they could
make the debate about when, not if.
Now that now the debate is about.
If right, can you get an abortion?
It's not about win and you know at six
weeks might as well be a total ban and
and many people don't know they're
pregnant until they're 7th or 8th week.
That's so six weeks is a very
small timetable. There.
Look, I I do think you know,
before Roe was overturned,
I would have said with Kemp beating
Trump back that Kemp really had a
slight advantage here in this race.
I do think that Roe sort of resets.
Recalibrates this race a little bit.
Because we're gonna find out.
I mean, there's not.
I look at all the battleground
states that are sort of the the
true 5050 states of all the states.
This is the most.
This this.
This is where yes,
there's a a total bans on the
books in Wisconsin and Michigan,
but that isn't what those legislatures
in the moment we're trying to do.
This is a case where this is
what they proactively did now.
I'll be very curious this gonna be
a big test of that Atlanta suburban
vote that has been trending blue.
Biden, inflation has moved.
Some of those voters back to thinking and
thinking about voting Republican again.
Does abortion bring them back
to the blue side of things?
I do think you're going to see
a lot more abortion out of the
Stacey Abrams campaign than maybe
you would have six months ago.
Yeah, and Speaking of the influence
of politics on the elections the
next few weeks and months we'll be
talking about the 2022 election.
But there's still a lot of activity
around the 2020 vote. You know.
Another primetime January 6th
committee hearing last night.
I know you'll be talking more about that.
Monday and here in Georgia we have the
whole Fulton County grand jury probe into
the phony set of Republican electors,
saying that's making headlines.
So the more we see and hear about 2020.
I mean, in your opinion,
is any of this actually moving the needle
when it comes to the American public?
Look, you see,
I like you see some erosion of Trump support,
sort of in the middle of the electorate.
It's like a riverbed.
You don't, you know water is eroding
a riverbed every day, but you don't
see the evidence of it every day.
It's hard to see,
but if you check back every three months,
you're like oh, whoa,
look at that and that's the type of support
he's sort of leaking support if you will,
but it might not be enough.
I mean, he still has a devoted
enough following here that I,
you know, that I don't know.
It's debilitating.
For him yet politically,
but I will throw a little
one wild card at you,
which is at some point Donald
Trump's going to testify, right?
He's going to end up having
to be deposed somewhere.
The likelihood the 1st place he's most likely
to get deposed is right there in your state,
in Georgia.
In that lawsuit.
So if we ever see Donald
Trump Underoath before 2024,
it'll be in Fulton County.
Yeah, we'll definitely be watching and
look forward to you breaking it down.
More on Meet the Press, which airs.
Sunday morning at 10.
Right here on 11 alive Chuck, thanks.