angeles. congresswoman karen bass running against rick caruso. a life time republican businessman turned democrat. in a special recall election in san francisco, bodine lost his job as the district attorney of that city earlier this evening. in south dakota, nbc news projects that incumbent republican governor christie gnome won. in iowa, senate race michael franken excuse me, different screen i believe from what we re seeing. defeated former congresswoman abby. franken will now look to unseat chuck grassley come november. in montana, ryan zinke is leading in the campaign for congress. a close race we re watching. steve kornacki is at the big board to break it all down. steve, what do you got? it s a waiting game in los angeles. we have been showing you these numbers for a while here. rick caruso leading karen bass. certainly seems like these two are headed towards a runoff if nobody gets 50% tonight the top two finishers face off in november. settle things then. what we
you see she s running 56%. everyone else in this race is a republican. scott baugh the former minority leader in the state assembly will be her opponent. right now she s running over 50%. one other that will be competitive this fall, mike levin, a democrat with a whole bunch of republicans trying to get in the number two spot. maryott is in the second spot distantly behind him, levin over 50%. these are all districts this november we re going to be spending a lot of time on because they ll have a lot to do with which party controls the house and by how many seats. steve, greatly appreciate you breaking it down for us. we ll check back in before the top of the hour. don t go anywhere. one issue we are going to keep an eye on is election integrity. donald trump and republicans loyal to him continue to spread baseless lies that the 2020 election was stolen.