most pioneering experiments in criminal justice reform. ousting a district attorney who eliminated cash bail, vowed to hold police accountable, and worked to reduce the number of people sent to prison. that d.a., chesa boudin, actually blamed the right for his loss last night. the right wing billionaires outspent us 3 to 1. they exploited an environment in which people are appropriately upset. and they created an electoral dynamic where we were literally shadow boxing. nbc s steve kornacki is with us at the big board after, i don t know, a couple of hours of sleep. take us through the big races. similar themes actually i think animating both of these contests. here s what we ve got right now. still a lot of votes that need to be counted for this primary. we do know rick caruso, karen bass, they re headed for a runoff. this is going to be settled in the november general election. you can see the third place
lose the very important, but for women to lose the right, 65 plus percent of all americans supporting roe v wade, that will all americans supporting roe v wade, that will change the entire electoral dynamic. | that will change the entire electoral dynamic.- that will change the entire electoral dynamic. that will change the entire electorald namic. . ., , electoral dynamic. i want to bring in justine electoral dynamic. i want to bring in justine in electoral dynamic. i want to bring injustine in a electoral dynamic. i want to bring in justine in a second, electoral dynamic. i want to bring in justine in a second, because i injustine in a second, because she s going to tell us why the rest of the world cares about these elections, but frank, i think you are making the point that there were two thirds who didn t back trump. he has a big effect. the question is going forward, whether he has the same influence. going forward, whether he has the same influence. because this is bbc
president. right now, think about what it means to be a president what it means to be a republican in a primary. you can be a birther. you can be associated with alt-right bigots and survive and win the primary. but if you criticize trump, that s suicide and that is the dynamic right now in the republican party. i understand that to be the electoral dynamic, charlie sykes. but where are their souls? well, in deep storage, at least for a while. but right now we re in an election year. and this is a party that s shown itself to be both tribal and cultish, but also transactional. the transactionalism is basically, look, as long as we keep our mouth shut or we laud the president, kiss up to the president, we get what we want. the problem is the price tag keeps going up and they keep having to ask themselves, was that worth it? obviously bob corker reached the breaking point, but again, he s on the way out the door. he s not running for reelection.