Election Results: Big Wins for Democrats; Ohio Abortion Rights Vote Passes

On today's podcast: 1) Ohio voters enshrined abortion rights in their state’s Constitution, a boon for Democrats running on the issue and complicating Republicans’ approach to the 2024 elections. 2) Political polarization has helped make 2023 the biggest off-year for ballot measures in more than a decade in the US, 3) Israel said its troops have entered the middle of Gaza’s main city, as they continue their operation against Hamas. 4) Two days after former President Donald Trump testified at his New York Fraud trial, it's his daughter Ivanka's turn to take the stand.    Full transcript: Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. We begin with last night's election results and a major victory for abortion rights in Ohio. Voters approved Issue one, which enshrines the right to abortion access in the state constitution, by a fifty six to forty four percent margin. Bloomberg Politics reporter Mark Niquette is in Ohio and has more It passed pretty overwhelmingly. And what's going to get a lot of attention is this past in what has become a Republican state. And it's clear that this issue passed even in counties that Donald Trump carried pretty handily in twenty twenty. Bloomberg's Mark Mniquette reports this makes Ohio the latest state to back abortion rights after last year's Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In the interest of transparency, we should note that Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg Radio parent Bloomberg LP, donated a million dollars to the campaign supporting Ohio's abortion rights amendment. Well Nathan, It was also a good night for Democrats in Virginia, with every seat in the state legislature up for grabs. Democrats won majorities in both the House of Delegates and the state Senate. It's a blow to Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin. He's seen as a presidential contender in twenty twenty eight and had hoped to pass a fifteen week abortion band with GOP control. And in another major race, Democrat Andy Basher has won a second term as governor of Kentucky, a state former President Donald Trump carried by nearly twenty five points in twenty twenty And In other political news, Karen Tonight, in Miami, Republicans hold their third presidential debate. Five candidates will take part. Ron De Santis, Sneaky Haley, Vivek Ramaswami, Tim Scott, and Chris Christy Well Nathan notably absent, will be GOP front runner Donald Trump. Two days after the former president testified at his New York fraud trial, it's his daughter, Ivanka's turn to take the stand, and Bloomberg's ad Baxter has the story. The trial issue is whether Donald Trump inflated the worth of his properties to lenders and other business dealings. Ivanka Trump has pretty much disappeared from the public spotlight, opting to leave both New York and Washington, d C. For Miami, but part of what prosecutors want to look at as her role in several real estate transactions, as well as the valuation of her New York apartment, which they say was priced at about two and a half times the value ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio. Okay, Ed, thank you. We now turn to the latest developments in the war in the Middle East. Israel says its troops have entered the middle of Gaza's main city. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Investment says talks toward normalization of ties with Israel remain on the table, Despite the Kingdom criticism of Israeli military action. We spoke exclusively with Khalid Alfala, you know when those discussions were taking place, and his Royal Highs, the Crown Prince was clear that it is contingent on a pathway to peace for resolution of the Palestinian questions. That was on the table, that remains on the table. And obviously the setback over the last month has brought that has clarified. Why was Saudi Arabia so adamant The resolution of the Palestinian conflict has to be part of a broader normalization in the Middle East. Saw the Investment Minister. Khalid Alfala added his country is pained on a human level at the loss of life in Gaza and in Israel. He spoke at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore. Well back in the US, Nathan, the House is voted to censure Democrat Rashida Tahlieb of Michigan for her rhetoric about the Israel Hamas war, and Speaker Mike Johnson presided over the vote on this vote. Quote. The yea's are two one hundred and thirty four and the nays are one hundred eighty eight, with four answering present. The resolution is adopted. The House's action was an extraordinary rebuke of the only Palestinian American in Congress to leave defended her stance, saying she quote will not be silenced and I will not let you distort my words. Turning to markets now, Karen, the s and P five hundreds. Coming off seven straight days of gains. Today, investors await more clues on interest rates from a host of Central Bank officials, including FED share J. Powell. Yesterday, FED Governor Christopher Waller commented on the recent jump in tenure yields since the beginning of July. This thing has gone way up, almost a full percentage point. I think in Central Bank terms of financial markets, that's an earthquake. Governor Chris Waller notes yields on ten yere treasuries have climbed more than one hundred basis points since the end of July. Well, earnings will also be on investors' minds. This afternoon, we hear from Disney, Nathan and Bloomberg Stown Buzzby as a preview. With strong revenue expected at its theme parks, Disney forecasts report overall earnings growth for last quarter and to once again add subscribers to its flagship Disney Plus streaming service investors also watching any comment on when that streaming business will be profitable, the latest on spinning off its ESPN network into a separate streaming unit, and updates on selling off a ABC network and other non core media holdings. Bloomberg consensus calls for adjusted earnings per share of sixty nine cents revenue of twenty one point four to three billion dollars. Tom busby Bloomberg Radio, Okay, Tom, thanks and after the bell earnings to get you caught up on watching Shares of Robinhood They're down seven and to half percent in early trading. The online brokerage reported revenue that missed estimates. Bumble shares are down nine percent, a day after announcing it would replace its CEO. The dating app reported worse than expected revenue guidance. Rivian Automotive shares are up six and a half percent. The ev makers raising its forecast for overall production this year, and forgive me. Shares of Toast are Toast this morning they are down seventeen and a half percent. The restaurant software company lowered the upper range of its full year revenue forecast, and it is time now for a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. For that, we're joined by Bloomberg's John Tunker. John Good Morning, Good morning, Karin. History made in the City of Brotherly Love. Among the results of tuesday's election, Democrat Cherrell Parker won Philadelphia's mayoral election. Parker becomes the first female mayor of the city. No matter where we went, our message stayed the same. And guess what I learned during that time Philadelphia that people were yearning for authenticity. Parker won with seventy four percent of the vote. Another first in the nation's small estate, Democrat Gave Mmo defeated Republican Jerry Leonard to win Rhode Island's first congressional district seat and become that state's first black candidate to elect it to Congress. The journey of so many Rhode Islanders and their families is one of Britain, hard work, determination and resilience. And I stand on the shoulders of so many who came before me to make this day possible. Imoll picked up sixty five percent of the vote there. Based on questions for the bench, a majority of justices on the Supreme Court appear inclined to uphold a federal gun ban on people who are under restraining orders for domestic violence. The Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogord defended the law. The constitutional principle is clear, you can disarm dangerous persons. The federal ban has been on the books for thirty years. 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It was a pretty overwhelming result for Issue one in Ohio. Does that results have residents into next year's election? Absolutely? I think for Democrats who have been really trying to get the party to focus on abortion rights, they're all seeing what they would call victories in Ohio, Kentucky and even Virginia last night, and I think they're going to say that that is a positive way forward for them looking into twenty twenty four after what is probably many would say has been a tough week looking at Paul showing President Biden perhaps lagging former President Trump in a number of the key swing states. So this is something I think, given the results last night, you're going to hear Democrats talking a lot more about in the coming months that abortion. I'm sorry. That result in Virginia in particular is pretty interesting because the Republican governor there, Glenn Youngkin, who's been talked about as a potential presidential candidate, not just in twenty twenty eight but this this cycle as well, had campaigned pretty hard on this idea that if Republicans took over the state legislature, that a fifteen week abortion ban could be passed in Virginia. What does this result for Democrats winning in Virginia mean for Youngkin's political prospects. Well, for Democrats, I think it's a big sigh of relief that the Virginia still came in I think on their side, and looks like both chambers are going to be in Democratic hands going into the going in the next year for Young Kin, I think it's going to be it's going to make that idea that he could be some sort of last minute candidate if for some reason Donald Trump is not in the race. It starts to rule that out. He has a much weaker hand facing Democrats in both chambers in terms of being able to get his policies passed and dominating the agenda. I think Democrats are going to try to set the tone once they take their seats. It does, you know, it's still I think the idea that Youngkin could could be a candidate in twenty twenty eight is also tested a little bit. It's so early to even be talking about that at this point. But if you're a potential yet we do. If you're a potential candidate looking that far ahead, you think about the agenda you want to set, the accomplishments, the legislative accomplishments you'd like to have. And I think this makes that a lot harder for someone like Governor Youngkin to plan out and game out ahead of that election. You know, almost five years from now. You mentioned Democrats potentially talking more about abortion rights into this election cycle. What about the economy, that's been an issue that this present has struggled to gain traction on. Does abortion override economic issues for voters in this election cycle? You know, that's the economy is often the deciding factor for a lot of voters going into the polling booth. I think there are definitely voters on both sides who would view abortions as the key issue, the biggest thing, the most important thing to them. But in the end, you know, I think the economy is often what swings voters either way, particularly those independent voters in the middle. If heading you know, in the months heading into November twenty twenty four, they're feeling better than they are now about the economy, that probably benefits the incumbent of the Biden administration. If they're feeling worse and there's a lot of signs that, you know, the economy could be struggling more next year than it is this year, then that makes it I think a harder slog for the president and his team to argue that they should remain in place. So it's the economy, you know, it's that Carville saying it's the economy stupid. I think that that's always going to be if not the biggest, one of the biggest factors. We know that voters right now are not very pleased with where things are, even if some of the numbers are perhaps better better than forecast. In the time we have left, Bill, I want to talk about geopolitics and the latest in the Israel Hamas war, with Israeli troops getting gaining ground in Gaza City and now the G seven commenting what's the latest. Yeah, so we heard from Israel, Israel's defense ministers today saying that their forces are now in the heart of Gaza City. You know, they've been they've kind of encircled Gaza at this point, and they say they're going after key Hamas leaders and trying to destroy some of the tunnel networks and the weapons depots that have been built up there. And the G seven coming out today, the foreign ministers coming out with a unified statement saying that there should be humanitarian pauses in the war. That's of course separate from a cease fire. But Israel, who's even pushed back on the idea of some of the pauses, saying that aid is getting in and any pause would only benefit Hamas. So lots of complicated politics going on there still. This is Bloomberg day Break Today, your morning brief on the stories making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. Look for us on your podcast feed at six am Eastern each morning, on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also listen live each morning starting at five am Wall Street Time, on Bloomberg eleven three to zero in New York, Bloomberg ninety nine to one in Washington, Bloomberg one six to one in Boston, and Bloomberg ninety sixty in San Francisco. Our flagship New York station is also available on your Amazon alection devices. 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