night in america where democracy was on the ballot. first a stunning rejection by voters in conservative kansas. voters defeating an amendment aimed at restricting abortion rights and the result wasn t close. kansas is the first state to vote on the issue since the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. perhaps even more significant was the voter turnout here because nearly 700,000 votes were cast in tuesday s primary and that dwarfs the voter turnout in the state s 2020 presidential primary election. five states in all held primaries on tuesday, one other big take away here was a slue of election deniers backed by former president trump, they were winners. and here to break down the numbers is cnn s senior data analyst harry enten. hey, john. good morning. what we got? let s start in kansas which brianna was just talking b my goodness gracious, sometimes i get surprised by results and this is one of them. i did expect that no would win, that is that they w
washington s third district she right now is in the top two but we don t have a call there. around 50% in. let s move over to arizona. arizona, right now none of these races have calls but the trump-backed candidates are leading in all of them. here the trump-backed candidates ahead, the secretary of state race the trump-backed candidates ahead. blake masters is well ahead, he was backed by donald trump and here down in the attorney generals race the republican that was backed by donald trump again ahead, but i will point out both the governors and the senate race will be races we re watching this fall. absolutely. and this one pretty narrow, momentum shifted overnight. correct. let s go to michigan gov. another trumped-backed candidate, this one we do get the check mark for, tutor dixon well out ahead, 40% of the vote. she was not ahead a little while ago but the fact of the matter is that trump endorsement very much helped her out.