Governor JB Pritzker donated money and knowledge to the successful efforts to defeat Issue 1 in Ohio, which would have made it much harder to protect abortion rights in the state.
In a special election Tuesday, Ohio voters rejected a Republican-backed measure, known as Issue 1, that would have raised the threshold for changing the state constitution from a simple majority to 60% of voters. The move was aimed at making it harder in November for abortion supporters to add a constitutional protection for abortion access.Pritzker donated $250,000 to help defeat the measure, as well as providing political strategists from his team to help.
"JB Pritzker is a very powerful billionaire and very influential governor in Illinois, but he wants to be a big player on the national scene. Everything he does to help this issue for the Democrats helps him politically nationally," said ABC7 Political Analyst Laura Washington.For Republicans, the Ohio defeat is just the latest in a series of abortion losses in states around the country, which has prompted talk about the need to take a more moderate stance on the hot-button issue.
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