also on the ballot today, reproductive rights in kansas. a referendum there would strip women of their rights to choose unless enough people vote no. and we all know speaker nancy pelosi is a bad ass. she arrived in taiwan today even though china is furious about the trip. plus, trevor reed the former marine who spent three years behind bars in russia and is now speaking out for the release of brittney griner and paul whelan. he joins me right here tonight. we begin with a huge night of primaries in some key battleground states. voters in five states are casting their ballots setting up critical showdowns for this november, and the stakes could not be higher. the choices voters make could very well determine whether or not this country remains a democracy, and that claim is not made hyperbolically. we saw how our democracy was pushed to the brink in 2020 with the twice-impeached former president pushing the lie that the election he lost was rigged. of course it wasn t, an
By the way things work in arizona. it will probably be within the first 10, 15 minutes of those polls closing that we get more than half the vote statewide. you get all one big batch there in arizona so we won t know anything until late, but when we start to get some numbers we might know a lot quick and what are we seeing here in arizona? we mentioned this is the senate race here. this is for the republican nomination to take on mark kelly, the democrat seeking re-election in november. blake masters has led in the polls and blake masters is running with donald trump s endorsement so then again that gets to the question of will the complete trump state of republican primary candidates in arizona get through? blake masters is trump s candidate for the united states senate. as you mentioned, kari lake is trump s candidate for the republican nomination for governor. she, too, has led in the polling, tlool was a final emerson poll in the last 72 hours that did suggest that maybe a closer r
Click a picture there with a phone and you can find your way to msnbc.com. mavericks tbs announced this is the final season of samantha bee s great show full frontal. you can reach out directly. it s a half hour interview. it s election night. the reidout with joy reid starts right now. tonight on the reidout anybody who was involved in that corrupt, shady, shoddy election of 2020, lock them up. it is primary night in five states highlighting live like that one from kari lake and other candidates who are trying to get their hands on key offices overseeing voting. make no mistake. democracy itself is on the ballot.
One because i think the united states is committed and has since the beginning of the one-china policy and the idea of defending taiwan, providing weapons to taiwan and helping to ensure that they can defend themselves without actually getting us into a superpower confrontation with the chinese. the chinese, by the way, are worried about this in another way. they are worried we re going to start providing new kinds of weapons to the taiwanese that will make them more secure, and i think that s one of the big issues we re going to have to deal with in the months ahead. yeah. i want to switch over and talk about afghanistan. since i ve got you here, i ll take my full advantage of having you here. there s been a lot of drama on the republican side, people from the war hawks, people who have never seen a war they didn t like. tweeting mad that we left afghanistan, that we took troops out of afghanistan. i know you and i in the past agreed it was a good idea after
Arizona, but there is a question by biden s victory of can you push that electorate too far? and i think that we might be set up to have that test in november. steve kornacki, the best. really appreciate you. steve will be at the big board throughout the evening with results from today s primaries. we ll keep an eye out on that. this is a state like arizona, this was a barry goldwater statement that s how republican the state was. this the was a john mccain state, two republican senators pretty much my whole life tirnl and i m not that old but i m not that the young, and now it has two democratic senators, not one, but two. this is a state that swung from all the way from the goldwater republican all the way to being a blue state right now in terms of its representation in the united states senate so what do you make of this idea that the republicans are still taking the knee and essentially nominating people who are so far on the trump wing that they could actually make it bluer.