and china ramps up military drills and raises fears of a dangerous stand-off with the u.s. after house speaker nancy pelosi wraps her risky visit to taiwan. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. we begin with a powerful message sent by kansas voters on the issue of abortion. with the critical midterm election around the corner. jeff zeleny reports on the conservative state s surprising vote to protect abortion rights and other results from a big round of primaries. reporter: a surge of kansas voters sending an overwhelmingly message to protect abortion rights. it was the biggest sign yet of the backlash to the supreme court s decision to send the question of abortion back to the states. and here in conservative kansas, voters delivered their answer loud and clear. we don t want the government m making our reproductive health decisions for us. reporter: sharice davids
just how dangerous would that be? it s very dangerous, and i hope they all lose. if you can t accept the result of this last election and you want to run, what s that going to do to the process? so i hope they all lose. it s terrible that that happened. by the way, interesting in michigan. this guy gibbs who beat meijer, meijer voted to impeach donald trump. the democratic party itself put money in, put money into the gibbs campaign because they thought he d be the weaker candidate and they were able to defeat meijer who actually stood up and voted to impeach trump. now, you go figure that one out. that s kind of wacky and not good for the future of the way we do elections in this country. it s a big risk. it s true, the dccc put all this money behind meijer s opponent who won last night. how much of a sure bet is it that he would lose in the general? it isn t a sure bet
go ahead, eva. go ahead, i m sorry. it isn t a sure bet, and democrats have long made the argument that democracy should be put over politics. i ll also say that if gibbs is ultimately successful in the fall, i think some of those democrats are really going to regret it because they will have wish they would have had a congressman meijer, someone who s shown that he s willing to work across the aisle, someone who is independent minded and willing to work with democrats. so they may be shooting themselves in the foot here and it diminishes this argument that democracy supersedes political arguments. go ahead, governor. eva s point is really important to be noted. but think about how wacky this is. this is completely wacky. the democrats who say they want reasonable republicans in office then go and defeat the reasonable republican and