Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melburgh, and we are coming on the air here on a big night for many states.

You know the music. If you follow the news, you probably know it is another election day in America.

And we have you covered on the beat this hour as well as through all of our special coverage tonight on MS now.

I'll tell you the latest. These six states have voters going to the polls.

Big consequential primaries.

In big places, California and New Jersey, of course, some of the most populous states we have, Montana, Iowa,

New Mexico, South Dakota. We're covering them all. James Carville, who knows his way around the primaries

and the general and the midterm we're bracing for? Well, James Carverville's here standing by.

He joins me in a moment.

I do want to share the context for these elections.

There are fears across the Republican Party

that Donald Trump is not only going to be held accountable

for what he's done for policy failures,

for an open-ended war for high prices,

but also for really gaffs of choice, damaging the Republican Party in its brand

at a vulnerable time with scandals, vandy projects, blunders, odd statements, late night out-of-touch

tweeting, and a real rejection of people's concerns about this economy. The big story this week

is well in Washington, but one that's resonated across

police and military households, was Donald Trump's very controversial idea to siphon your

taxpayer dollars and give it to defendants and convicts and even potentially people who'd

attacked police. Now the administration is trying to retreat to back away from that over billion dollar fund,

which could pay all kinds of people. As we've reported, it's already paused in court. It may be a

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