am while he. polls are now close in the seven states that actually had elections today. many results are still too early to call, but here are some of the primary races we are following closely at this hour. and california, we are awaiting a call in the mayoral race in los angeles, congresswoman karen bass running against rick caruso. a lifetime of businessman. turned democrat, a special recall election in san francisco lost his job as additional guitar any of that. city in south dakota nbc news projects that accompany republican governor christine all has one parent mary for governor. over and iowa democratic michael franken excuse me there, difference crane that from what we are seeing, defeated former congresswoman abby finkenauer. frank you will now look to updating and convince senator chuck grassley, come november. and in montana, ryan thank, you donald trump secretary of the interior, is leaning in his campaign for congress in close race though that we are watching
angeles. congresswoman karen bass running against rick caruso. a life time republican businessman turned democrat. in a special recall election in san francisco, bodine lost his job as the district attorney of that city earlier this evening. in south dakota, nbc news projects that incumbent republican governor christie gnome won. in iowa, senate race michael franken excuse me, different screen i believe from what we re seeing. defeated former congresswoman abby. franken will now look to unseat chuck grassley come november. in montana, ryan zinke is leading in the campaign for congress. a close race we re watching. steve kornacki is at the big board to break it all down. steve, what do you got? it s a waiting game in los angeles. we have been showing you these numbers for a while here. rick caruso leading karen bass. certainly seems like these two are headed towards a runoff if nobody gets 50% tonight the top two finishers face off in november. settle things then. what we
expected that race to be called so quickly. and so i think a lot of the commentary that will be coming in the next couple days is what kind of message is san francisco trying to show? san francisco, of course, has always had sort of a left and leftier divide in the city. so it s not that the city is necessarily turning towards republicans. but i do think there s a fair question about what the future of democrats will be when it comes to this question about criminal justice. christina, your thoughts as well on california this evening. anything surprising you? yeah. well, one thing i want to go back to something steve kornacki was talking about with david valadao, that race is fascinating because valadao is the only congressional republican who voted to impeach donald trump who trump has not endorsed a challenger. so imagine if trump had gotten involved in that race how those numbers might have looked a little different. the assembly member salas has run in that exact same area
you see she s running 56%. everyone else in this race is a republican. scott baugh the former minority leader in the state assembly will be her opponent. right now she s running over 50%. one other that will be competitive this fall, mike levin, a democrat with a whole bunch of republicans trying to get in the number two spot. maryott is in the second spot distantly behind him, levin over 50%. these are all districts this november we re going to be spending a lot of time on because they ll have a lot to do with which party controls the house and by how many seats. steve, greatly appreciate you breaking it down for us. we ll check back in before the top of the hour. don t go anywhere. one issue we are going to keep an eye on is election integrity. donald trump and republicans loyal to him continue to spread baseless lies that the 2020 election was stolen.
50%. the top two face off in november to decide who will be the next mayor of los angeles. we ve told you in california the biggest story of the night that s now complete is that recall of boudine. on the congressional side, an eye on embattled republican incumbent in the central valley who voted to impeach donald trump, david valadao. rudy salas is going to the general election. valadao is trying to hold on to this lead over chris mathys. the good news for valdao, we re looking at the same day vote, doesn t seem to be a lot of it. mathys is doing well with the same day vote. there may not be enough of it for him to catch valadao, if he can get to the general election against salas this is a fascinating race. this is a very democratic