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
to be galvanized especially in places like johnson county. now whether the second part of the democratic argument, that it attaches itself to a democratic candidate in november makes a difference in the midterm election, that s a huge question, and that s something we ll find out in the next 98 days. but this result here, again we ll go back statewide to see where it sits here, 80% in here, i think this will have tremendous repercussions nationally, both in the midterm this year and in terms of the politics of abortion as we move forward. thank you so much steve kornacki for that helpful breakdown. to talk more about those repercussions potentially, a columnist for washington post, also an msnbc columnist. jennifer, woody she. do you think it s republicans coming out to express when it comes to the question that was on the ballot today about abortion in the state of kansas, do you think that they are coming out to vote in support of abortion rights?