of an official event to tout a legislative accomplishment. sitting in the front row behind me was lieutenant governor john fetterman. he is of course going to be participating in another event separately with the president later in philadelphia. now, there have been a lot of questions about the president and how he has been spending his time leading up to the midterms and the fact that as you pointed out, victor, he hasn t been doing a lot of sort of rallies and separate events with some of the most vulnerable democrats, but we are seeing how the white house has been making sort of the best political use, they think, of the president. that is to talk about these kinds of legislative accomplishments and to really sort of set the tone for what he believes the democrats have been able to achieve, and the other important piece of this is of course raising money. they think he has been good at that, that has certainly been very helpful for the party. all right, mj lee, traveling
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
Central new street journal poll president ial poll out this morning shows donald trump, lean President Biden, in six of seven swing states. The exception here is wisconsin. Biden holding a tight lead. There at all its also worth thousands of progressive voters used last nights president ial primary two protest bidens handling of israels war against hamas or the 45,000 voters picked uninstructed on the ballot. And that is more than twice the margin that biden had when he won the state back in 2020. Last night, President Biden came out also with some of his harshest words yet toward israel criticizing israel over the deaths of seven world central Kitchen Aid Workers. They were killed in israeli airstrike in gaza. He shared those frustrations also with a small group of Muslim Community leaders during a meeting at the white house last night. It wasnt enough to keep one Palestinian American doctor from walking out in the middle of the meeting in protest arlette saenz, is that the white hous
I think those are all important points. And joe biden has to reach black poachers. That will be the only way he keeps his presidency. I think thats really important. But one of the things i was struck by that i was happy he talked about is the reason he exists and that hes president now is because of barack obama. What i think he does that is smart but important it is when he made the connection for being the standardbearer and the sort of placeholder for kamala harris, i thought that was more of the kind of stuff i would have loved to have seen. Im glad he announced the 16 billiondollar investment in hbcus. A lot of these colleges have enormous endowments that some of these other colleges do not have. I think is not to peaceful protest is someone who comes my grandfather was jailed for his beliefs. I think the agreement and the protesters in the audience were very respectful. And they used symbols from civil rights that are important and you had these Faculty Members with the congoles