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
east coast. i m holly vulture. this is msnbc special coverage primer results in five states. arizona, kansas, missouri michigan, and washington state. voters of turned out to the determine their nominees for the elections to be held in 97 days. the biggest news of the night was in the state of kansas or voters voted to protect the right of abortion. this was the first electoral test for abortion rights since the supreme court overturn roe v. wade. around 60% of kansas voters voted no to removing the right for an abortion in the state constitution. in arizona, watching that closely right now, three races are too early to call for trump endorsed election deniers. mark finchem is leading 40 tutored dixon is the projected winner. she will run against the incumbent gretchen whitmer. in missouri, attorney general eric schmidt as when the republican nomination for senate to feeding former governor eric greitens. last night, donald trump endorsed a candidate named eric, and wasn t
the january six committee too an act insurrection and now he wants to run our elections. this race is gonna be about somebody that wants to run elections, versus someone that wants your recollections. and the whole entire country should be on high alert, we have mark management if he wins the republican nomination, or if it is an opportunity to win secretary of state s office here in arizona. do you think the fact that he actually went to the january 6th insurrection, is significance in of itself? in terms of the continued normalization of political violence. is that something that you think is a risk if the voters of your state decide to put him in power? you know, one thing to just have one there, but mark finchem, he is someone who helped plan, helped organize, and someone who has continued to push this idea of a conspiracy theory. and actively advocate for essentially the overthrowing of
state which we should mention, is the position that oversees arizona s election. joining us now rerginal, democratic leader of the arizona representative and he s running as a democrat for arizona secretary of state. so what are the dangers in your view of arizona electing a 2020 election is denier, in the position of secretary of state? look, first thank you for having me. i made you laid out the facts. the reality is, mark finchman is not any election denier. he was on the steps, january six, he has been subpoenaed by the january six committee too an act insurrection and now he wants to run our elections. this race is gonna be about somebody that wants to run elections, versus someone that wants your recollections. and the whole entire country should be on high alert, we have mark management if he wins the republican nomination, or if it is an opportunity to win secretary of state s office
should be on high alert, we have mark management if he wins the republican nomination, or if it is an opportunity to win secretary of state s office here in arizona. do you think the fact that he actually went to the january 6th insurrection, is significant in of itself? in terms of the continued normalization of political violence. is that something that you think is a risk if the voters of your state decide to put him in power? you know, one thing to just have went there, but mark finchem, he is someone who helped plan, helped organize, and someone who has continued to push this idea of a conspiracy theory. and actively advocate for essentially the overthrowing of our elections, mark finchem is a danger to the state of arizona. he is a state danger to our country. he if he is secretary of state, he will put partisan politics over the constitution here in arizona. that is crucial especially with them being a battleground state. in terms of the harm for