On Wednesdays “Meet the Press Daily,” MSNBC host Chuck Todd cited two polls suggesting the public was mostly supportive of abortion. By contrast, a…
On Wednesdays “Meet the Press Daily,” MSNBC host Chuck Todd cited two polls suggesting the public was mostly supportive of abortion.
By contrast, a couple of days earlier when Steve Kornacki was fill-in host for the same show, he was more accurate in admitting that polling can also be found that suggests most Americans oppose abortion.
Todd’s panel discussed the law recently passed in Alabama that makes abortion illegal throughout a pregnancy without making exceptions for rape or incest.
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NBC correspondent Heidi Przybyla argued “This is the most extreme bill yet to pass,” and that without exceptions for hard cases, the Alabama law would make it easier for Democrats “to paint the Republicans as being the harsh extremists in this situation. And the polling bears that out, too.”
Then Todd jumped in with polling results: “Let me put it on the screen here. From the midterm, we have a few different ways I want to put it up here.” He then showed an NBC News exit poll from November 2018 finding that 66 percent indicated they wish to keep the Roe v. Wade decision, and only 25 percent picked “overturn it.
