good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle, we are 154 days out from the midterm elections. and tonight, we are tracking all the results from the biggest primary day so far this year. seven states held contests today from new jersey to california. where the polls have just close. all eyes are on two key elections there. the race to be mayor of los angeles. the leading candidates, six from congresswoman karen bass, and billionaire developer rick caruso. in the ballot measure to recall progressive san francisco district attorney, chase but dean. let s get to steve kornacki, we know he s gonna be here at the big board waiting for us. steve break this down. who is, running what are they doing, one of the numbers? yeah stephanie will the numbers right now are zero, but within the next few minutes, we expect this map here of california to start lighting up like a christmas tree. this is the way it works in california. folks have been voting by mail for weeks now, this is diffe
but you see mike levant, the incumbent, a district of 49th district of california that is going to be very competitive. this november. right now, running in second place here, very distantly, brian marriott. this is was his opponent in the 2020 election. again, what is going to decide which republican emerges here to face 11 in the fall, it s probably gonna be that same day vote. the same day vote tends to be much more republicans in the mail vote. but we do have most of the votes and now, just in that one batch, that mail batch from the 49th district of california. again, when all of the votes are counted here, it s gonna offer us a little bit of a preview, because again, republicans, democrats, run together on the same primary ballot in california. top to advance the general election. we have some numbers from the 49th. we also have some numbers from the 13th district. this is a democratic seat here. an open seat actually because of the incumbents here, drop harder, left to run in a
this guy right here. chris mattis, who explicitly made valadao vote on impeachment. the basis of his campaign. , so the hope for democrats tonight is so that they can rally their own party behind salas and divide republicans enough that they can knock valadao out of that second spot. knock him out completely. kick him out of the general election. getting much more, in their view, beatable candidate in the general election. so, let s see what happens as the result started coming here. again, valadao, a republican incumbent who voted to impeach trump. and the other incumbent, or keeping an eye on. he s in the 40th district of california. young kim, also is a similar dynamic here. young came, a freshman congresswoman, one of the first korean woman elected to congress. democrats have spent trying to boost a poll trump challenger and knock her out of that top two spot. you can see though she is leading by ten boys with those mail ballots counted up now. steve, stay close. we are also cove