White House says ‘Biden’s values won big’ after making gains on election day

White House says 'Biden's values won big' after Dems electoral successSource Reuters

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00:00 President Biden's values and agenda

00:02 won big across the country last night.

00:04 In Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and in Virginia,

00:08 voters once again sided with President Biden's agenda

00:11 to stand up for fundamental freedoms

00:13 and build an economy for the middle class

00:16 and protect democracy.

00:19 Now let's turn to Ohio for a second.

00:21 On the heels of an attempt to weaken voters' voices

00:24 at the ballot box in August,

00:26 the people of Ohio voted decisively last night

00:29 to make reproductive care a constitutional right

00:32 in their state.

00:34 Ohio is now the seventh state

00:36 where voters turned out in droves to reject attempts

00:40 by Republican elected officials

00:42 to impose extreme abortion bans

00:44 since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

00:48 And from Kentucky to Virginia to Pennsylvania,

00:51 voters in those states also turned out

00:53 to roundly reject abortion bans

00:56 that jeopardized the health and the lives of women,

00:59 forced women to travel hundreds of miles for care,

01:02 and threatened to criminalize doctors and nurses.

01:05 The stakes could not have been higher.

01:08 And last night, voters sent a very, very clear message.

01:12 We have always said that voting matters and polls do not.

01:17 Our focus is going to remain on our work

01:20 to grow the economy, lower costs for families,

01:23 and protect fundamental freedoms against dangerous agendas

01:28 that are out of touch with the American people.

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