Primary night in five states with Trump looming large in many key races

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Voters in five states—Arizona, Michigan, Missouri, Washington and Kansas—head to the polls with less than 100 days until the November general election. Some 2020 election deniers are on the ballot in two swing states. CNN Chief National Correspondent John King joins AC360 to break down the key races. Plus, CNN has learned that January 6 text messages were wiped from phones of key Trump Pentagon officials. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper that “in the absolute least case” this is a “complete and total failure to abide by and live up to the responsibilities under the Federal Records Act.” To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, primary elections tonight in five states.
0:03.8	Missouri, Michigan, Kansas, Arizona, and Washington.
0:06.6	Poles are closing just now in all our parts.
0:09.7	Of three of them, abortion is on the ballot in Kansas and supporters of the former president's
0:13.8	election lie are running in Arizona and elsewhere.
0:17.0	Three Republicans who voted to impeach the former president are all facing tough primary
0:20.9	challenges from candidates that he's supporting.
0:24.0	In Arizona, state house Speaker Rusty Bowers, the conservative Republican state house Speaker
0:28.1	who refused to help overturn the election and testified before the House Select Committee,
0:33.1	he is also facing opposition backed by the former president in his state Senate race.
0:37.9	Some of those very same candidates are also being supported controversially by Democrats,
0:42.1	hoping to run against more extreme opponents in the fall.
0:46.3	All of this with inflation and fears of recession is a backdrop.
0:49.2	President Biden's recent legislative actions inform policy decisions on the table and midterm
0:53.9	elections now just 98 days away.
0:55.9	You know, John King is over the magic wall tracking all the important races and trends.
0:59.6	Let's check in with you first.
1:00.9	So John Missouri polls are just closing as you know, the former president calls a lot of
1:05.4	confusion in his Senate endorsement of two people named Eric, both running for the
1:09.6	same office.
1:10.6	How is that race shaping up?
1:11.9	Yeah, Anderson, the fact that we're talking about Missouri is actually the story in the
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