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
the, your came in its election night in america and we are gonna go straight to steve kornacki at the big board who have some breaking news for us just in the last couple of minutes. steve to get away, aiming for folks that are watching us in the last hour we saw that we are gonna get one big batch of votes from san francisco about 12 minutes ago we did. it s the mail-in vote this is the recall of the district attorney, testable dean, where the two thirds of the total votes, over 60% voting yes. nbc news has now declaring that the test within, the district attorney intent san francisco, has been recalled from office the margin from these mail-in ballots are just so enormous, you could see here nearly a 23 point spread in favor of him calling in for office. there just aren t going to be enough votes to overcome that. even if you were to do well with what is to come. he is getting absolutely blown out here. he will be recalled from office. what does that mean,? immediately, i
for weeks now, this is different from some of the other states, remember we saw that slow count and pennsylvania recently in the mail-in ballots. not the case in california. they can process these, get these things ready to go. what happens is that county after county, really starting now, because the polls have disclosed in california, within the next few minutes, county after county, we ll start reporting out all of the mail ballots that they have received at least until election day. so we are gonna start seeing some big numbers. this is one of the places obviously we are gonna be looking the most closely here. this is san francisco. this is the recall effort against the district attorney, testable dean. obviously, national significance here, boudin one of the prosecutors who have chase cities across the county over the with the stress dakar serration policies. his opponents say his critics say, he is too lenient on crime. san francisco obviously one of the most democratic, on
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
are gonna get one big batch of votes from san francisco about 12 minutes ago we did. it s the mail-in vote this is the recall of the district attorney, testable dean, where the two thirds of the total votes, over 60% voting yes. nbc news has now declaring that the test within, the district attorney intent san francisco, has been recalled from office the margin from these mail-in ballots are just so enormous, you could see here nearly a 23 point spread in favor of him calling in for office. there just aren t going to be enough votes to overcome that. even if you were to do well with what is to come. he is getting absolutely blown out here. he will be recalled from office. what does that mean,? immediately, it means that chesa boudin loses his job. who takes the job? well, that will now be the decision of the mayor of san francisco, london breed will now appoint a new district attorney, there will be an election, a special election