endorsed the big lie that donald trump should somehow still be president. again, that s a lie. so let s get right to it. you know who i m talking about, steve kornacki back at the big board. where do things stand right now? the biggest story of the night this one, kansas. constitutional amendment that would say the constitution in the statet of kansas does not provide for the right to abortion goes down tofo defeat, goes down to defeat, overwhelmingly. this is a tremendous surprise what happened here. a lot of people did not see the fact of no winning coming nor the magnitude of it. ite will be significant politil repercussions from this result. also the potential here just in terms of you see where the no vote, a lot of energy in the suburbs ofin kansas city. democrats have been saying, hey, that s the area that those are the kinds of voters who will turn out in november, too, for f democrats. we ll see if that happens. this is the biggest headline of the hour certainly. a
out so many women were angry and came outme and voted but i bet lot of men came out and voted, too, in kansas. youo, might see that in states november when you look at places where democrats are running hard on this issue. michigan, for example, where governor gretchen whitmer was seen to be endanger in her bid for re-election, has really embraced this abortion issue as aon galvanizing force for voter there. you re seeing that ing a lot o these key battleground states around the country heading into the fall. tim, i know it s still early, but what do tonight s results tell you about trump s political influence? because it s kind of differenti things in different states. you know, look, i think some things to be encouraged about. right now in michigan we have peter meijer one of the ten republicans who o voted to impeh trump, running neck in neck in his race.k he s up just a hair right now. we ll see how that turns out. that is encouraging. another thing we re seeing in a lot of the
presidential race. august 2nd in kansas for primary? these numbers are wild. absolutely nobody predicted this. earlier today when we started to see long lines, there was a number being bandied about, maybe 36% turnout. that secretary of state just said it s looking like it s going to push 50%, as you said, first term obama numbers. what happened here? well, a lot of people thought that and particularly people who are on the abortion rights side, that actually the other side tried to bury this in the heat of august when people don t turn out and they thought they could push this through. obviously they turned out to be wrong. couple of key factors i think that will be seen over the next couple of days. one, unaffiliated voters. we already seen a trend, this is a very red state but we have seen a trend away from the
endorsed the big lie that donald trump should somehow still be president. again, that s a lie. so let s get right to it. you know who i m talking about, steve kornacki back at the big board. where do things stand right now? the biggest story of the night this one, kansas. constitutional amendment that would say the constitution in the statet of kansas does not provide for the right to abortion goes down tofo defeat, goes down to defeat, overwhelmingly. this is a tremendous surprise what happened here. a lot of people did not see the fact of no winning coming nor the magnitude of it. ite will be significant politil repercussions from this result. also the potential here just in terms of you see where the no vote, a lot of energy in the suburbs ofin kansas city. democrats have been saying, hey, that s the area that those are the kinds of voters who will turn out in november, too, for f democrats. we ll see if that happens. this is the biggest headline of the hour certainly.
why we did it and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon. he joins us at 30 rock and even wearing kornacki khakis. claire, i have a feeling you re wearing your ruby sleepers when it comes to talking kansas tonight. what is your reaction? girl, i wish i had some ruby slippers right now. i was raised in missouri and taught that i kansas was not a great place. but i don t feel that way t tonight. something extraordinary happened, stephanie. this was not expected to be this kind of result.f they had a record turnout. what this shows in a state where republican registrations eg outnumbered democrats two to one, that women are really upset that a fundamental right and freedom has been taken from them. and ien think it is going to be very motivating issue and i think this should be a big,