for the toss. its primary night in arizona, kansas, missouri and in washington. polls just closed in arizona with two trump deniers on the ballot. but the big, big story tonight is kansas. voter turnout is high and right now the pro-choice no vote to keep the right to an abortion in the kansas constitution is leading, which would be huge, really gigantic in terms of a victory in a very red state. let s get right to the big board and steve kornacki. steve what is happening there on the ground. this seems like a surprise. is it given the polling going in? take us what we re throughout we re seeing. there wasn t too much polling, one poll showed this very close, the yes leading 47 to 43. what s happening here there s a couple of things generally what you re seeing first of all you re seeing massive turnout. we think now about 800,000 people maybe more are gonna end up voting in this primary. typically in a kansas primary are looking at about 400 or 450,000 something in t
in missouri the battle of the two trump endorsed candidates called eric has been decided. and we seem to projects that missouri eric schmidt has won the republican nomination for senate, defeating the former governor eric greitens. and in washington state, the votes is still too early to call for tua publicans running for election who both voted to impeach donald trump. congresswoman jerry her rather butler s leading right now against trump endorsed candidate joe can t. and congressman dan newhouse is leading a tremendous candidate, lauren colp. steve kornacki with us all night, let s go over to the big board and see what s going on right now. i say you ve chosen to talk about arizona first. tell us what you are looking at. a bit of a potential surprise here in arizona, kerry lake, the republican backed by donald trump, former newscaster up there in arizona, had let in the polling in this race, and i think came in today as the favorite. you can see we got a lot of the vot
released right away in this first hour, all the votes that were received by about yesterday. that s basically what you are looking at here to start. so what was expected that vote would be the most favorable vote for karrin taylor robson so she needed to take the lead, she needed to build a little bit of a pad, because it was expected that the vote that was cast today, and then the final votes that will be kind of not till tomorrow, would be more favorable to kari lake. robson succeeded and getting a pad here. a pad of eight and a half points. it may well end up being enough to hold off lake. we are going to see some of the same day votes getting added here. like its number take up a little bit here. but robson came in today as the underdog. right now at 60% in, has a real shot at this. over the next couple hours, we re gonna see a trickle of the vote that was cast today get added to this. but that is basically gonna stop, and then maricopa county is the biggest one. here the
especially given these primary elections, typically have lower turnout rates than general elections. it was, in fact, the opposite effect. to put into context how unprecedented these numbers were, in 2018 about 450,000 people showed up for the kansas primary election. yesterday it was nearly double that. that s about half of the state s total registered voters, even some kansans were surprised by that. there were a lot of people last fall that did not believe that the supreme court would overturn roe v. wade. and when they realized that it happened and they were like, oh, i think i need to go vote. so i think it brought a lot a people out the door to vote that wouldn t normally vote in a primary. i m super proud to be from kansas tonight and i feel like my state just showed up and boldly told me they are going to take care of me and my female friends and everyone that can get pregnant in the state of kansas. we are protected tonight. i thought it would be a lot closer.
so alex, did the u.s. have any help on the ground from sources who were not americans? reporter: well, alisyn and victor, that is a terrific question. it s one of the many that we still have about how this intelligence was gathered and of course how this culminated in the killing of ayman al zawahiri. it s certainly possible that there were afghans acting as intelligence assets or agents on the ground, but for now, the administration is not detailing what they call the sources and methods that helped them gather this intelligence. it s very safe to assume that much of this intelligence was gathered from the sky through visual methods, drones and satellites as well as through what s known as signals intelligence, basically intercepting communications. but this was a months-long process. the white house saying today that this took most of the year, and president biden was first briefed in april when there were indications that zawahiri had moved not just to afghanistan but to