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[0] Results from several significant elections in multiple states, including New Jersey, Virginia, and New York continue to stream in.
[1] Which candidates and political parties came out ahead in the contests?
[2] And how do the results shape the national debate?
[3] These are voters that came to us in 2018, came to us in 2020, and have abandoned us in droves.
[4] That is a five -alarm fire.
[5] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[6] It's Thursday, November 4th.
[7] And this is Morning Wire.
[8] The Supreme Court heard arguments this week for two cases challenging Texas' new pro -life law.
[9] How did the justices respond?
[10] And did their questioning provide any hints as to how they might rule?
[11] And San Francisco suffers more fallout from skyrocketing crime, with companies abandoning the city and some residents resorting to hiring private security.
[12] We'll dig into the data and discuss the latest developments in the crime -ridden city.
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[22] Americans in multiple states went to the polls Tuesday.
[23] to vote on several key political offices and ballot initiatives that will have significant implications across the country.
[24] Herewith Morris DailyWire's Cabot Phillips.
[25] So Cabot, obviously, Virginia, got a lot of the attention on Tuesday, but there were some other important elections going on elsewhere.
[26] Let's start with New Jersey.
[27] What can you tell us there?
[28] Yeah, the governor's race there wasn't even really considered a contest by most experts.
[29] Democrat incumbent Phil Murphy was dominating in all the polls, and New Jersey went for Biden by 16.
[30] just a year ago.
[31] But the race ended up being a dead heat laid into Wednesday, with Murphy appearing to just barely squeak out a win by around 10 ,000 votes.
[32] But it is noteworthy that Democrats surrendered a 16 -point advantage in New Jersey in just one year.
[33] Yeah, that's a significant swing.
[34] Another race in New Jersey that shocked experts was between Republican Ed Durr and Democrat Steve Sweeney.
[35] Sweeney was the president of the state Senate and the longest -serving legislative leader in New Jersey's history.
[36] Derr, on the other hand, was a truck driver who reportedly spent $153 total on his race, and he didn't even have a campaign website.
[37] And get this, he appears to have won.
[38] I'm as blue collars you're ever going to find.
[39] I'm not against lawyers or doctors or business people, but that's not what we need.
[40] We need people who understand the adverse effects of what's going on in a state.
[41] So it's a wild story, and it really just speaks to how well, Republicans performed throughout the state and more broadly across the country.
[42] $153.
[43] It's an economical campaign.
[44] Yeah.
[45] We've also been tracking an important ballot issue in Minneapolis.
[46] What do you have on that?
[47] In the summer of 2020, Minneapolis really became the center of the defund the police movement after the death of George Floyd there.
[48] Activists and Democrat leaders have been pushing a policy ever since to completely eliminate Minneapolis's police force and replace it with a public safety agency.
[49] On Tuesday, voters got to decide once and for all, and they voted pretty overwhelmingly against that proposal.
[50] It failed 5644.
[51] Now, polling in Minneapolis last year was pretty supportive of defunding the police, but this year has seen record rates of gun violence and homicide in the city.
[52] So it looks like a lot of voters have changed their minds on defunding the police as crime started to go up throughout the year.
[53] Yeah, makes sense.
[54] It's also worth noting that not all voters nationwide felt the same way here.
[55] In Austin, Texas, for example, there was a vote on a measure that would have hired hundreds of new police officers in the city and ended up failing by a vote of 68 to 31.
[56] So even though the city has experienced a record increase in violent crime this year, Democrat voters still opposed the pro -police measure there.
[57] And we also saw an expected Democrat victory in New York.
[58] Tell us about that.
[59] Yeah, in New York, Democrat Eric Adams won the mayor's race easily.
[60] That wasn't a huge surprise given the fact that the city has six times.
[61] as many registered Democrats as Republicans.
[62] But it was interesting, given Adam's background and some of his platform.
[63] He's a former police captain who opposed defunding the police and made restoring law and order one of his key issues.
[64] The fact that he won by sort of rejecting a popular Democrat narrative is worth noting.
[65] And it could send a message to other Democrat candidates as midterms approach next year.
[66] When you talk about disbanding police departments, when crime is increasing, you're not being progressive because you're not dealing with the safety of people who are impacted by that.
[67] So obviously all of this is a big hit to Democrats.
[68] How do we think this could impact President Biden's agenda?
[69] It's going to have Democrats in D .C. feeling a bit hesitant to go along with the party line, not because they necessarily disagree with it, but because it doesn't look that popular with voters right now.
[70] The polls also reflect that.
[71] Tuesday's elections looked like a strong rebuke of President Biden.
[72] So don't be surprised.
[73] if you see some Democrats, especially ones in vulnerable districts, starting to distance themselves from the president as 2022 approaches.
[74] Yeah, that's going to be the big question moving forward, how much they align behind him.
[75] Overall, Tuesday looks like a big win for Republicans.
[76] Yeah, it does.
[77] DailyWire's Cabot Phillips.
[78] Coming up, the Supreme Court considers arguments against the new Texas pro -life law.
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[82] On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on two cases involving the New Texas Pro Life Law, which has already reduced abortions in the state by half.
[83] The justices had many questions, but there were some hints about which way they may lean.
[84] Here to tell us more is Daily Wire's Charlotte Pence Bond.
[85] So Charlotte, walk us through this.
[86] What happened this week?
[87] Well, on Monday, the justice has heard arguments from cases brought by the Justice Department and abortion providers who were challenging the new pro -life law in Texas.
[88] As we've reported before, the law bans most abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which is typically around six weeks of pregnancy.
[89] The really nuanced part of the measure is the enforcement method.
[90] Private citizens are the ones who can sue if someone breaks.
[91] the law, a technicality leading the Supreme Court to decline to block it earlier this year.
[92] Right.
[93] And yet they're considering arguments on it now.
[94] Why is that?
[95] The hearing involved two cases.
[96] The first one concerns the Biden administration, which previously announced they were suing Texas.
[97] Last month, they asked the high court to weigh in on the law and temporarily halt it while legal actions continue.
[98] In response, the Supreme Court said it wouldn't halt the law, but would consider if the United States was allowed to bring suit in federal court to block the state's law.
[99] The second case included abortion providers challenging the law.
[100] The high court is essentially deciding if a challenge should be permitted in federal court.
[101] What are the justices say on Monday?
[102] And do we have any idea on how they might rule?
[103] Well, it seemed as if some of them were concerned with the law itself, but also a bit wary of the Biden administration taking such intense action against a state.
[104] Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh called the lawsuit by the DOJ, quote, unusual and questioned what power the department had to issue a lawsuit over a state law.
[105] But Kavanaugh has also pointed to a brief that was put forward by Second Amendment supporters in favor of the abortion providers.
[106] The group noted that other states could copy Texas' pro -life law and effectively get rid of constitutional rights such as First Amendment and Second Amendment rights.
[107] Justice Amy Coney -Barritt seemed to be concerned whether the law could keep abortion providers from being able to defend themselves fully if someone sues them.
[108] Chief Justice John Roberts said the DOJ's case was broad and questioned if the department was looking for, quote, an injunction against the world.
[109] So it sounds like mixed signals coming from conservative justices.
[110] Both Kavanaugh and Connie Barrett cited arguments that sound at least partly sympathetic to abortion providers.
[111] Yeah, it seems they might be more sympathetic to allowing abortion providers to challenge the law, but they seemed concerned about letting the Biden administration sue a stay in this situation.
[112] And when do you think we'll hear results on how the court decides?
[113] Most decisions are made a few months after arguments are heard, but this one could be sooner, especially because they already put it on a fast track to get these heard.
[114] And the court is supposed to consider another pro -life measure on December 1st, the case out of Mississippi, where most abortions are banned after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
[115] They've said they'll use that case to decide on the constitutionality of all pre -viability abortion bans, which means if they side in favor of Mississippi, states could potentially create their own abortion laws again.
[116] So some extremely significant decisions.
[117] Definitely.
[118] Thanks for reporting Charlotte.
[119] That's Daily Wires, Charlotte Pence Bond.
[120] In recent years, there has been an explosion of crime in the city of San Francisco, sparking a movement to recall the city's district attorney, Chesa Boudin.
[121] The situation has gotten so.
[122] so bad that about 150 families in the Marina District have banded together to hire private security.
[123] Here to tell us more is Daily Wire's Ian Howarth.
[124] So, Ian, what's going on in your former home of San Francisco?
[125] Yeah, to say the least, I'm happy to be in Nashville now.
[126] So to put it simply, San Francisco is experiencing a huge surge in crime.
[127] The latest example of this is that yet another major retail store has reduced its hours in response to this explosion in crime, theft in particular.
[128] The safe way in the Castro District in San Francisco, used to be open 24 hours a day, but late last month, it reduced its hours to 6 a .m. to 9 p .m. The grocery store reached out to San Francisco supervisor Raphael Mandelman, saying that in the last six months, it's been, quote, off the charts in terms of how bad it's been.
[129] Now, this isn't exactly a new problem.
[130] It's been escalating for several years now.
[131] Is the city doing anything to address it or reverse this trend?
[132] Well, Maldeman said he was trying to broker a meeting between city police, Safeway, and San Francisco's district attorney.
[133] Safeway also said that police rarely arrest anyone for theft by the time they actually respond to a report.
[134] But as you said, this isn't new.
[135] Thests of this sort are being experienced by stores across the city.
[136] For example, Walgreen said earlier this year that theft in its San Francisco stores were four times their national average, and then they had to close 17 locations where too much product was being stolen.
[137] So four times the national average, so it's really deteriorating over there.
[138] Yeah.
[139] Now, what's behind this crime spike?
[140] Well, it's both simple and complicated.
[141] On the simple front, California introduced Proposition 47 in 2014, which reclassified nonviolent thefts as a misdemeanor if the total value of stolen goods in one act of theft was less than $950.
[142] This effectively legalized most theft.
[143] San Francisco has particularly suffered seeing twice the property crime rate per resident as the rest of California, let alone the fact that San Francisco's rate of violent crime per resident is 50 % higher than California as a whole.
[144] And then there's the more complicated issue of the city's district attorney.
[145] whose radical policies are being blamed by many for the continued rise in crime.
[146] What sort of rise are we talking about?
[147] And like over what period of time?
[148] Well, Chaser Boudin, San Francisco's DA, started in January 2020 and made decreasing charges for offenses central to his strategy, as well as ending cash bail, releasing prisoners, and avoiding prison sentences in the first place.
[149] In that year, burglaries skyrocketed in San Francisco by 50%, even though the rate of burglaries in the country overall dropped.
[150] motor vehicle theft went up by 22%.
[151] That's five times more than the nationwide 4%.
[152] Violent crime, home invasions, drug dealing, and property theft all spiked.
[153] And as you mentioned before, things have gotten so bad in San Francisco that families in the Marina District are hiring private security to patrol their neighborhood.
[154] And there's also an ongoing effort to recall Chesa Boudin.
[155] Is that correct?
[156] Yeah, that's right.
[157] There's a growing movement in San Francisco to recall Boudin, which also includes former members of his own department.
[158] About a week ago, we reported on two prosecutors who added their names to the 50 -plus attorneys who have either resigned or been fired since Boudin took office.
[159] Around one -third of the department's attorneys have now left at this point.
[160] These two prosecutors have joined the recall effort saying that the radical DA, quote, disregards the laws that he doesn't like, and that he was doing things like ordering prosecutors to push for lighter sentences for violent criminals.
[161] One of the prosecutors said that they've seen decisions made by Boudin that shocked their conscience.
[162] and the fact that San Francisco officials adjoining the attempt to unseat Chaser Budin really shows how radical the DA must be given that the city itself is deep blue to begin with.
[163] Right.
[164] Ian, thanks for the update.
[165] Thanks for having me. That's Daily Wires, Ian Howarth.
[166] Another story we're tracking this week.
[167] Netflix has aired a new special on former NFL quarterback turned activist Colin Kaepernick.
[168] In the special, Capernick, who famously refused to stand for the national anthem during his final year in the league, compares the NFL draft process to a slave auction.
[169] Clips of the episode have gone viral online, sparking controversy and criticism.
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