[See NewsBusters for more.] Republicans are busy acting like Republicans and Andrea Mitchell and her Thursday panel of guests on MSNBC are beside themselves. From abortion, not giving minors puberty blockers, not teaching elementary students about sexual orientation, guns, the Commission of Presidential Debates, to redistricting, she warned about the GOP’s “hard right turn.”
On abortion, Mitchell held out hope that Republicans would go too far, “let me just also point out moments ago Florida’ governor, Ron DeSantis, signed a ban on abortions after 15 weeks. Yesterday, in Kentucky, Republicans overrode Governor Beshear’s veto of a sweeping abortion bill, and earlier this week Oklahoma's Republican governor made abortion a felony. So, the—the-- question here is would this ultimately fire up Democrats and independents instead just firing up the Republican base?”