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Hey, good morning, playbookers on Ragum de Vallin. It's Wednesday. Today, your postgame report

from yesterday's primary elections. It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Thousands of voters took to the polls last night, and the takeaways were many, the blocked

political return of a scandal-plagued

former governor, mixed results once again for former President Donald Trump and progressive candidates,

but the most surprising and possibly most wide-reaching vote wasn't on a candidate, but instead,

abortion. It marked the first time since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade that voters had a chance to directly weigh in on abortion rights.

By a stunning roughly 20-point margin, Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have given state lawmakers the chance to either further restrict or ban abortions in the state.

Turnout swelled, per the AP, quote, approaching what's typical for

a fall election for governor, and the no vote did well not just in Democratic strongholds,

but in conservative and rural areas, outperforming Joe Biden's 2020 vote share there.

The result, as Politico's David Siders, Adam Wren, and Zach Montalara write, quote,

is a political earthquake with the potential to reshape

the entire midterm campaign. Reporting from Kansas, our very own Alice Miranda Olstein writes that,

quote, the vote also countered the narrative that the abortion issue is a bigger motivator

for conservative voters and may signal a warning to Republican lawmakers across the country

that the road decision may generate considerable

backlash over the coming months and years.

Quote, politically, the outcome is sure to reverberate across the country and buoyed the

Democrats' bid to capitalize on the overturning of Roe in the midterm battle for Congress this fall.

It will lift the party's hopes that anger over the Supreme Court's decision will matter more

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