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Right to an abortion is on the ballot in Ohio while Virginia results are key to whether a 15-week abortion limit could be passed
Good morning, Tuesday is the biggest voting day in America before the presidential election next November and while millions of voters go to the polls in almost 40 states there are some key races and issues that everyone is watching.
The polls are open in many places already and we’ll bring you the news as it happens during the day – and also tonight when polls close and we start to see which way things are leaning.
The right to an abortion will be a leading issue in voting today across the country, as it was in the midterms last November and will be in 2024, after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in June 2022, ending the federal right to an abortion. It’s directly on the agenda in Ohio today, with a ballot measure to enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution. And it’s front and center in Virginia, where the governor wants to introduce a 15-week ban on the procedure.
Virginia is one to watch as all 140 seats in the state’s general assembly are up for grabs. The GOP control the lower house of delegates and want to flip the upper chamber, the Democrat-majority senate and hand high-profile Republican governor Glenn Youngkin the trifecta. That would smooth passage of the litmus-test 15-week abortion limit he wants to pass.
In two big gubernatorial races, Kentucky’s popular Democratic governor Andy Beshear is running for re-election against Republican state attorney general Daniel Cameron and in Mississippi, Republican governor Tate Reeves, is running for re-election against the Democrat Brandon Presley, a former small-town mayor who’s a cousin of Elvis Presley.
Election day means that the court is not sitting in New York where Donald Trump and his business empire are going through a $250m fraud trial that threatens to end his business career in the state where it all began. After an uproarious stint on the stand yesterday, Trump’s back in Florida for a rally tomorrow while daughter Ivanka testifies as a witness at the civil trial.
The US supreme court is set to hear oral arguments in a key case that tests the legality of a federal law that makes it a crime for people under domestic-violence restraining orders to have guns.
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