Good evening from new york, im chris hayes, along with alex wagner. And we are both here, for msnbcs special coverage of yet another primary night in america. This one in the electorally crucial state of michigan. And as of right now at this moment, eight pm eastern, polls have closed in nearly all counties across that state, other than a few in michigans upper peninsula, which will close in an hour from now. So were going to start getting results coming in, basically any second throughout the next hour. And of course, if we have that, weve got have Steve Kornacki here at the big board, ready to break down the numbers, as we have them in realtime. Along with our team of excellent reporters in michigan, to also give us the latest from there. Both the republican and democratic primaries are going on today, and the contests are interesting for a number of reasons. Not for the usual reason, which is suspense about who will win. Neither race is actually expected to be all that competitive,
Michigan primary. With President Biden facing the possibility of a significant protest vote over the situation in gaza and nikki haley hoping for something, anything positive with donald trump expected to easily win the republican primary and the nomination. Well get to all of that shortly. But first, we want to set the stage Just A Little Bit for where things stand when we talk about the Republican Party. So we begin the reidout tonight with the freak show. The weekend was the annual conservative Political Action conference, cpac, a showcase of just how extreme the once grand old party has become. How extreme, you ask, well, as nbc news is reporting, nazis mingled openly at cpac, spreading antisemitic Conspiracy Theories and finding allies. Yes, you did hear me say nazis. Nbc news noted in previous years, conference organizers have ejected well known nazis and White Supremacists such as nick fuentes from cpac. This year, racist Conspiracy Theorists didnt meet any perceptive resistance
get this done. democrats are going to hold the senate? have to send a very clear message to washington. we want less radicalism and more balance. neil: well, are you ready for this? it is on. the voters lining up in the final hours to make their voices heard. this hour it s all about turnout, my friends in pennsylvania, in georgia, in arizona and nevada and so many more states and cities and districts. you have all of congress up for grabs. a third of the u.s. senate and both parties hoping for a surge to put them over the top once and for all. meanwhile, investors may be hoping for something else. stocks up because they think in this new environment to come, nothing gets done. i ll explain that in just a bit. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much happening and so little time to get to it. so in the next hour, we re putting it all in perspective including that run-up in stocks that has some investors hoping that maybe with democrats and republicans continuing a
bars in clark county. you have potential victory is lying in those sales at least for now. i want to i guess is it makes a huge difference night, i step toward voters like elliot carver hall having their voices heard, it felt a little bit of empowerment, a little slow, a little tiny bit sara marie joins us now from las vegas. so this is the first time he s running boost had been used. how did the process go? it went pretty smoothly, although there were voters who showed up to vote and found out they were actually registered in a different county or in some cases, in a different state, which is negating the education gap that still exist for those who are behind bars. there were dozens of folks who wanted to vote from the jail today and we expect that that s going to number is going to be even longer when we get to the general election in november. this was sort of a dry run for the big event coming up, anderson be interesting to do polling and see if they re running for
sorted out. what that means is that in these locations where this is happening, the ballots are not being counted where people are voting on those sites. officials do say that the votes will be counted. that that will happen tonight. only now those ballots will be delivered via the county to a downtown location in these secured boxes to their central office for that counting, which the county supervisor in charge explains this is the way other counties actually do it. a majority of arizona counties, that s how it s done. they don t have this option to actually see the vote counted right there at the vote center or the precinct. instead, it goes back to central. now, our cameras caught up with kari lake as she was casting her ballot today and asked her about the issue. she has this message for voters. my message to the people of arizona, don t get out of line