to help overturn the election and testified before the house select committee is also facing opposition backed by the former president in his state senate race. some of the very same candidates are also being supported controversially by democrats hoping to run against more extreme opponents in the fall. all of this with inflation and fears of recession as the backdrop, president biden s foreign policy decision on the table in midterm elections now 98 days away. john king is tracking the important races and trends at the wall. john, missouri polls are just closing, as you know the former president caused a lot of confusion in his senate endorsement of two people named eric, both running for the same office. how is that race shaping up? yeah, anderson, the fact that we re talking about missouri is actually the story in the sense that this is a retiring republican incumbent roy blount the wind at the republican s back. this should be a safe seat. the former president decided
ballot. that s true. but he is casting a pretty big shadow as he continues to endorse some, it s not always clear, i might add, who he is endorsing, more on that in just a moment. and the timing will be pretty interesting here. it isn t just post january 6th. it s post the first series of january 6th hearings. we ll see whether it impacted voters and which way it did. it hasn t seemed to impact the platforms, though, of candidates in several swing states. some continue to echo the baseless fraud claims and there is a whole slate of them in arizona who are running for top positions like governor and attorney general, secretary of state and senate, you know, consequential office holders for those who run elections. also closely watched, the senate race in missouri. trump has endorsed an eric. okay, but which eric did you mean to endorse, sir? rivals eric greitens and eric schmitt both claim trump meant them and trump for his part has yet to clarify, now, on election night. it s
so this is just into cnn, a source confirmed to cnn a federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed former white house counsel pat cipollone. abc news s first report that. cnn has now confirmed that as well. abby philip, david chalian, mark philip, david axelrod are all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what s say you, david chalian? i think we ve seen over the last couple of weeks this escalation in this grandeur process, that is separate any part from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually storm the capital and broke into the capital. this is now, and has been, we ve seen as pence aides have been called it and what have you, getting into the inner sanctum. we don t get more intersect and then the white house inner council, who we know through testimony given to the january six committee, was running down the hall to the oval office to try and stop meetings from progressing, who was trying to get
republicans, yet again. no, donald trump is not on the ballot, that is true, but he is casting a big shadow, as he continues to endorse some, and it s not always clear, i might add, who he is endorsing, but more of that in just a moment. the timing is going to be interesting here. it is not just post january six, it is post the first series of january six hearings. whether they see it impacted voters and which way it did. it has not seemed to impact the platforms of candidates in several swing states, some continue to echo the baseless fraud claims. there is a whole slate of them running for top positions like governor, attorney general, secretary of state and senate, you know, consequential officeholders who may be over running elections. also being closely watched, the senate race in missouri. trump has endorsed a erik, okay, but which eric did you mean to endorse, sir? rivals eric greitens and eric schmitt, they both claim that trump met them. trump has yet to clarify it,
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