first time anywhere in the country where voters cast ballots on abortion rights since the supreme court overturned roe v wade in june. the republican primary for governor of arizona too close to call this morning. right now lake leads robson by about 10,000 votes. mark finchem is projected to win the republican nomination to oversee voting arizona as s secretary of state. in the senate primary, blake masters also endorsed by the future president is projected to win the nomination in arizona. in michigan, nbc news projects tudor dixon has won the republican nomination for the state s governor. the former conservative media personality won an endorsement from president trump just last week and faces off against gretchen whitmer in november. also in michigan, nbc news projects john gibbs the winner in the republican primary for the state s third congressional district. he is the trump endorsed challenger to republican congresswoman peter meyer. in missouri, the state attorney
what happens if for instance joe biden is running against donald trump and he has to contend in arizona knowing full well the secretary of state was at the january 6th riots and wants to decertify the 2020 election. that s highly problematic for the state of democracy. you have to wonder if the biden campaign in that situation even goes about contesting arizona or if they have to consider whether to pull out or not. that s a real question going forward for us as a society. i will also say that carrie lake has questioned the 2020 election results in part because over night on that election day results came in favoring joe biden and putting him in the lead. the exact thing has happened now in her benefit, to her favor. i don t suspect she ll be calling on the cyber ninjas to audit this one. so this is a bit of an opportunistic election conspiracy here. but the stakes are now extremely high because of the results
casual election conspiracy theorists. mark finchem the nominee for secretary of state was at the capitol at the stop the steal rally. what are the implications for that state by the victory of these candidates and if they go on and win the general? the short-term implications, i m with steve here, if you re blake masters, you probably don t want carrie lake running for governor. you want taylor robson running for governor because it can pull in more establishment republicans. it makes it easier for democrats to win in a year they should not win. the long-term implications are extremely problematic if you have a slate of election deniers going on and winning and controlling the levers of the 2024 presidential, you re at a real tipping point moment.
schmitt will face trudi bush valentine. let s go back to arizona, steve kornacki, and look at that governor s race being watched very closely. the dynamic has changed a bit overnight. yeah, it did. it was the overnight hours on the east coast. basically what happened here was carrie lake, the trump backed candidate did extremely well in some of these counties in the same day vote, the election day vote. that is to say the folks who went out to the polls yesterday and voted in person. that s what was counted overnight. lake was trouncing karen taylor robson. that vaulted carrie lake
2020 election. in terms of keeping that issue of the 2020 election front and center for the next few months in the general election campaign, carrie lake as the republican nominee much more than somebody like taylor robson would do that. it really raises an interesting question. republicans need a net gain of just one seat to get control of the senate. but in a number of these battleground states in a normal year you d look at the political environment and say biden s popularity is extremely low, it s just tailor made for the opposition to get pickups. maybe republicans aren t going to be able to take advantage of it. what a test arizona is going to be. you have mark kelly, the incumbent democrat trying to win