Huge stakes drive record turnouts for primaries, Kansas abortion vote

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

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Note to listeners: Because there was still so much undecided in tonight's primaries during the 9pm hour, we took the audio from MSNBC's live midnight coverage when at least a call had been made by NBC News in the Kansas abortion referendum.

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0:00.0	Hey, good evening. I'm Ali Velshi. This is MSNBC Special Coverage of primary night in America.
0:07.6	It is midnight on the east coast. Poles are now closed in all five states that were watching.
0:13.5	Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington state. We're going right to Steve Cornacchidge to
0:18.4	moment to get the very latest numbers as votes are still being counted. But perhaps the most watched
0:24.9	vote of the night happened in Kansas, where NBC News now projects that voters decided to protect
0:31.3	the state's right to an abortion. This was the first state vote on abortion rights since the
0:37.3	Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. In Arizona, three Trump endorsed election deniers are on the
0:43.5	ballot. All three races right now too early to call, but that may change while I'm talking to you.
0:50.3	In Michigan, Trump endorsed candidate Tutor Dixon is the projected winner of the Republican
0:55.6	primary for governor Dixon will run against the incumbent governor, the Democrat Gretchen Wittner.
1:01.6	In Missouri, the battle of the two Trump endorsed candidates called Eric has been decided.
1:07.3	NBC News projects that Missouri attorney general Eric Schmidt has won the Republican nomination for
1:13.9	Senate defeating the former governor, Eric Gretchen's. And in Washington state, the vote is still too
1:20.8	early to call for two Republicans running for reelection who both voted to impeach Donald Trump.
1:26.6	Congresswoman Jamie Herrera Butler is leading right now against Trump endorsed candidate Joe
1:32.2	Kent. And Congressman Dan Newhouse is leading against Trump endorsed candidate Lauren Colp.
1:38.2	Steve Cornacchidge with us all night. Let's go over to the big board and see what's going on right
1:42.8	now. I see you've chosen to talk about Arizona first. Tell us what you're looking at.
1:46.7	Yeah, a bit of a potential surprise here in Arizona. Carri Lake, the Republican candidate for
1:51.3	governor backed by Donald Trump, former newscaster at there in Arizona, had led in the polling in this
1:56.7	race. And I think certainly came into today as the favorite. You could see we've got a lot of the
2:01.2	votes. This is what happens in Arizona. It wasn't more than an hour ago that we had no vote.
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