night, we are going to get to it. great show. i will see you tomorrow. see you later! this is don lemon tonight. it s election night in america, and coming in from primaries in five states. cnn s projecting that trump endorsed candidate tutor dixon will win the michigan republican gubernatorial primary. it predicts eric schmidt has won the missouri gop senate primary. we ll have more results to come. twitter, dickson, and eric smith, the winners there. the fact, is in state after state, democracy is on the ballot tonight. will the gop be the party of trump and his election lies, or is there room left in the party of lincoln for candidates to defend our free and fair elections? we may get some answers tonight. the last polls just closing right now in arizona, their primaries, were trump backed candidates are all over the ballot, running for the senate, governor, and the secretary of state. the state that has been grand zero for trump s postelection defeat revenge tour. kyu
world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i m brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump s grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it s the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade that voters have weighed in on the issue. with 78% of the vote in as of tuesday night nearly 700,000 people have cast ballots in the primary and that number dwarfs the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential primary election. and remember when ex-president trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race on election eve? well, one of the erics won, cnn projec
whose ex wife accused him of abuse, and schmidt is the state attorney general who joined trump s lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election. both want to be the endorsement of trump and trump taunted taunted leave decision by simply endorsing eric. it s unclear how much trumps endorsement manners matters at all. to me it s a little bit alarming because this man is no longer a former president to a lot of these people. he is like a god, he is something that they look up to and to me a lot of times maybe he isn t the best person to look up to. that doesn t mean to say that he didn t do a lot of good things, especially for the middle class community, but i think people are running a little too far with his influence. over in arizona where polls close in just two hours, trump is backing a poll of election deniers in the republican gubernatorial primary. trump went for carey lake, she has made her trump s false claims of a storm election the centerpiece of her campaign. and an extr
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
trying to reach you about your car s warranty. well, good news, the ftc is cracking down on the annoying calls. plus, waging war on misinformation. a new program that looks to train the next generation of public officials and journalists to stop one of the growing issues facing democracy. you are in the cnn newsroom . up for you first tonight, president biden s physician says he is continuing to improve after testing positive for covid. we learned it is likely he is battling the ba.5 variant that is causing so many infections in the united states. like so many americans right now, he is isolating. the press saw him holding a briefing on the economy friday and got a silent update on how he is feeling. sir, how do you feel? are you feeling better? thank you, guys. cnn is following the latest developments at the white house. arlette, the president receiving the nl viral drug. what can you tell us? reporter: a short while ago ron klain told reporters here at the wh