Clearly, we want to protect voting rights, and clearly we have Republican state legislatures across this country who are reconsidering how they present presidential electors to Washington when the president is elected. "First, we know that in urban and suburban areas, unaffiliated and Republican women feel strongly about protecting women's reproductive freedom, and I think you will see that show up in these races. Is there a danger of overplaying the hand in terms of abortion and reproductive rights to a segment of the population - key voters in the suburban areas - that might not feel the same way? Just as the Republicans might overplay by trying to push for a 20-week ban? What do you do? What key segment will make a pivotal difference in North Carolina’s state legislative races? And how do you appeal to that segment? There is this ex-urban-suburban vote, the pivotal vote in the close races you're going to see in this state. If the political prognosticators I've spoken with are correct, you've got the largest bloc of registered voters in North Carolina who are now are unaffiliated. say - a red deep red state like Kansas. You've pretty much captured the “purplish quality” of North Carolina vs.
You had a film company in Arkansas, when that abortion ban went into place, actually pulled up and came to Wilmington, North Carolina to finish the film, because we're a state that respects women's reproductive freedom." We're going to have to look to other states. It's going to hurt our economy in Indiana, and we're going to have to think twice about expanding anymore here. "In Indiana, we just had Eli Lilly’s CEO, whom I talked to the other day, come out and say that this restrictive abortion ban is not good for our employees and their families. And that's what you're seeing in some of this legislation. We don't need politicians in the exam room with a woman and her doctor. But most North Carolinians believe that women should have the right to make decisions about their own bodies, and that we need to make sure that we protect that freedom. We can talk about the spectrum of what the law should be. North Carolina is more progressive than Kansas. You take the state of Kansas that has a 60-plus percent vote for protecting women's reproductive freedom in a very red state. "So, what we're talking about here is something that runs counter to what the vast majority of North Carolinians and Americans believe. They want to criminalize abortions, and that means doctors and potentially women themselves, and they want to say no exceptions for rape, for incest, for the mother's life being in danger. We're talking about a Republican party now, that says abortion is illegal. Cooper has been very vocal and public with his efforts to elect Democrats in this year’s mid-term elections. How do those issues and those developments point to exactly what you're saying?įor WUNC North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper poses for a portrait at the Governor's mansion on Wed., Aug. And you've got state legislative Republicans who are trying to get a 20-week ban, a law that was deemed unconstitutional, reinstated by a federal judge after this SCOTUS decision. Planned Parenthood, it's been reported, is putting $50 million into battleground states, including North Carolina. If we lose the number of Democrats that we need to sustain my veto this November, they will have open season on women's reproductive health." They haven't introduced or tried to pass any during these last few months because they know that I will have a successful veto. I've already vetoed bad Republican bills. We will be talking about protecting women's reproductive freedom because we have seen Republicans move to the extreme on this issue. But the fact of whether I will be able to have an effective veto hangs in the balance here. "The Republicans will keep the majority in the legislature there's very little doubt about that, unless something drastic changes. I've talked to them, these unaffiliated and Republican voters and told them: if you’d like to keep the balance in North Carolina, you need to vote for your Democratic legislator this time.
I have a number of unaffiliated and Republican friends, for that matter, who like the fact that we have a Democratic governor, a Republican majority legislature and a governor that can veto extreme bad legislation. Most North Carolina voters will tell you that they like it when there is a balance in state government. "Well, let's zoom back a minute, because I think it's important to talk about balance.
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