his opponent, john gibbs, as you can see has opened up a lead of 2. 1 points. what's happened is that there has been a big split here in terms of the mail votes, and the same-day votes. meijer was absolutely cleaning up in the mail vote. he won by more than 20 points. gibbs has been winning by double digits with the same day vote. and it looks like especially in kent county, where is grand rapids's, the same day vote has been counted up here kind of late, and has been boosting gibbs, and is now moved ahead by 1500 votes. i'm just gonna take a look here, at exactly where kent county stands. this is meyer's base. this is the biggest part of the district, and now peter meijer is about even in that district. meijer needs to be winning cannes county. he needs to be winning it by a couple points. and is the problem is that same day vote for him in kent county has just not been there. it allowed gets to take up and can't as a lot him to take a districtwide. so meijer looks like he's gonna come close, a lot of folks thought he was gonna get wiped out. but it might be t

his challenger, john gibbs, endorsed by trump. his challenger gibbs leaning into trump's rhetoric about the 2020 election. gibbs wins the republican primary here. notably in this race redistricting in michigan really changed the contours of the 3rd district significantly. it is a much more winnable general election seat for democrats right now than it was before redistricting. and as a consequence of that democrats actually put in a lot of money to prop up gibbs with republican voters, essentially trying to help gibbs win the republican nomination, believing that he'll be a more beatable candidate for them in the general election. of course that prompted objections from meijer. meijer saying hey, democrats, you're calling gibbs a threat to democracy, how can you be spending money that would put him a step closer potentially to being in power? so an interesting dynamic there. but meijer losing that race last night. also the other two republicans who were on primary ballots yesterday who voted for impeachment out in washington state

gibbs after democrats meddled in his primary. and you might recall that trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race and one of the erics has won. cnn projecting eric schmitt will defeat eric greitens, the former president president governor who resigned in disgrace. >> let's begin with cnn's jeff zeleny in st. louis with the very latest. jeff? >> reporter: good morning, brianna. missouri attorney general eric schmitt easily defeated former governor eric greitens here in missouri. really giving republicans across the country a sense of relief. they had been watching this race with some anticipation and anxiety, fearful that eric greitens, the disgraced former governor who resigned four years ago in a sex scandal could come back and potentially become the republican nominee. that gave democrats some hope that they could potentially win the missouri senate seat. something not happened in a decade. but that did not happen last night. eric schmitt, the conservative missouri attorney general easily defeating eric greit

gibbs. there's a big gap between the mail-in vote in the same day vote. turns out there was a lot of same-day vote left around grand rapids. gibbs took the lion share of it and you see we haven't officially called it but this is a grim situation for meijer. >> tell me again for our viewers who didn't hear earlier of this concept of strategic voting. there were some democrats who were engaged in that, in this race. there were democrats who in a vacuum would rather have peter meijer as their member of congress but thought that gibbs was more defeat-able so supported him for the nomination. that story would be this. michigan changed the way they draw their congressional lines for this now new redistricting district-ing. what it resulted in this district was dramatically changed. i think it's a slightly democratically leaning district. it's definitely a winnable district on paper for democrats. democrats look at these two candidates myers and gibbs, and said it gives us so many we can be. democr

he was seeing a primary challenger in john gibbs. we know that former president trump endorsed in the republican primary to take on democratic governor whitmer, they are siding with tutor dixon, they appeared together on a telephone rally yesterday and we know that's the race that is expected to be extremely close and according to the secretary of state's office, there are already warnings that because of the large number of absentee ballots in the state, the final result may not happen tonight and it may be a long night of counting votes here in michigan. >>> a major u-turn in congress today. the senate majority leader schumer now says senate republicans have reached an agreement to pass the pact act. it would provide health and disability benefits to veterans who suffer from medical conditions as a result of their wartime exposure to toxic burn pits. this comes a week after a group of 25 republicans flipped their votes and blocked the very bill that sparked outrage from veterans and the activists and comedian jon stewart. today he

democrats there just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads supporting a trump ally, john gibbs who defeated centrist republican peter meijer. he voted for the gun legislation. so do you think that democrats should be supporting election deniers to improve their chances in the general election? where do you stand on that? >> so, look, i'm appearing today as a member of the executive branch. i can't comment on campaigns or decisions made by political parties. what i will say is that right now we have got a track record to be proud of, and i believe that good policy is good politics. we're going to focus on continuing to deliver. and i think constituents in every part of the country are going to notice that. >> good policy is good politics. well, i think sometimes decency can also be the most practical form of politics, i'm sure you would agree in a different capacity. transportation secretary pete buttigieg, thank you very much. >>> all right. the nfl preseason kicking off today. senior data report er harry entn here with a preview and exciting odds if you happen to be a buffalo

also in michigan, nbc news projects that john gibbs as the winner in the gop primary for the state's third congressional district. the trump-endorsed challenger to gop congressman peter meijer declared victory in the nationally-watched race. gibbs was a political appointee in trump's housing and urban development agency and pitched himself as ultraconservative replacement for congressman meijer. meijer voted to impeach then president trump after the january 6th attack on the capitol. he called gibbs early this morning and conceded the race. another republican who voted for trump's impeachment on their way out of washington. >>> meanwhile, nbc news projects that progressive democratic congressman andy levin lost to a more moderate in his own party. haley stevens. levin is the son of former congressman zander levin and nephew of carl levin. at least one more of their family has served in congress since 1979, a run that will come to an end in january. that rare incumbent versus incumbent primary matchup was the result of a redistricting plan that merged portions of their current distric

gibbs who was backed by trump and has claimed trump's loss in the 2020 election was "mathematically impossible." the democratic congressional campaign committee spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads to help elevate gibbs' message as part of what some see as a risky strategy of aiding far right candidates who might be more vulnerable in the november general election. in other election news from michigan, democratic congressmember haley stevens has defeated fellow democrat incumbent andy levin in the newly redrawn 11th congressional district. aipac, the american israel public affairs committee, spent over $3 million to defeat levin, a progressive pro-labor politician who used to serve as president of his synagogue. meanwhile, two members of the squad, rashida tlaib in michigan and cori bush in missouri, won their primaries defeating challenges from more conservative democrats. russia has accused the united states of direct involvement in the war in ukraine for the first time. a spokesperson for the russian defense ministry said intercepted communications show the united states

john gibbs, great guy, defeated ryan or congressman peter meijer. peter my error. >> also new in texas, a jury added 45 point $2 million in punitive damages to alex jones's bill for pain and suffering caused by his lies about the 2020 sandy hook elementary school massacre. jones must pay the parents of the serial victim at a total of 49 point $3 million. our report on reactions here in a moment. and to tensions overseas and china's military drills in airspace and oceans near taiwan. taiwanese officials say, today's show simulate and attack on their eyelet. i will ask the senator on the foreign relations committee about that in just moments. but now, the latest from capitol hill and the white house. we turn to nbc's julia tsirkin and mike motley for us this afternoon. julie, let's begin with you. what is the timeline here on that look for the vote on the inflation reduction act, when we're looking, at and wonder senators from both sides saying? >> yeah, look, that's a big question not just in our minds but on the senators minds, as well. as they are

john gibbs is over here. he's about to vote for himself, obviously, and meeting with reporters and campaign staff there. he told me he's coming into this race feeling confident. he feels like he's ahead. his internal polling is going extremely well and he has a double-digit lead. meijer saying that his internal polling shows he has the lead. both candidates say there are two big factors in this race. one is meijer's impeachment vote supporting the impeachment of president trump after the january 6th riots, but former president trump weighing into this race. his endorsement having a huge impact on this race. former president trump weighed into the governor's race here. he had a town hall last night and i talked to a bunch of voters today about the impact of trump's endorsements and how that weighs for them as they're going in to cast their ballot. listen to what they told me. >> how much does former president trump's endorsement weigh into your decision? >> it doesn't. i was a trump supporter. but you just kin

. >> in michigan's third congressional district race, talkback candidate john gibbs has about it with thousand vote lead over moderate republican incumbent peter meijer. meyer is one of just ten republicans voted to impeach president trump over the generally sixth capital might be a he also voted yes on the recent bipartisan gun bill. the democratic party. half a million dollars in ads to help boost gibbs was my campaign because they view is the more beatable candidate, a web november. remember, gibbs is a 2020 election denier, believing that it was stolen from president trump. in an op-ed recently, meijer wrote "democrats are paying to help elect the same villains they will against." i'm sure we will be hearing more about that, but right now, gibbs in the lead and it's looking very good for him. >> shannon: thank you very much. ♪ ♪ back internet, legendary dodgers broadcaster vin scully has died at his home outside of los angeles back of the hall of fame announcer called dodgers games for 67 seasons in l.a. and brooklyn before retiring at the end of the 2016 season. your work nat

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there you have a trump-backed candidate, john gibbs, who is one of the republicans two supported trump's impeachment. they believe they're coming into this election extremely strong, but there's a lot of uncertainty, and both of these races is going to be a test of former president trump's influence over republican voters in this crucial battleground state. >> so much to watch. thank you all for being with us. appreciate it. >>> coming up in kentucky, with the latest on deadly flooding there. the government says one victim is as young as 2 years old. we'll take you there live. plus, 55,000 acres burned, thousands had to get out of their house. at least two people have been killed. we're tracking california's biggest wildfire this year. and then overseas, the rising tensions with china. house speaker nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan is rattling the region. that's after the break. he region that's after the break so betty can be the... barcode beat conductor. ♪♪ go betty! ♪♪ let's be more than our allergies! zeize the day. with zyrtec. i grew up an athlete, i rode horses... i really d

he is drawn a trump backed challenger, mike gibbs, excuse me, john gibbs, and mayer has taken the lead. meyer was widely considered the underdog coming into this race today. meyer has just taken the lead. most of the remaining vote is in kent county, grand rapids, that is meyer's political base. absolutely he has a chance to pull this thing out. that would be significant, we have seen a lot of house republicans of those ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump. a lot of them retired, one of them was defeated in a primary. one of them did get through a primary, but trump didn't have anything to do with that primary. this would be the first time if he wins, it would be the first time you have a house republican who voted to impeach trump, actually survive a primary where trump edgewise arrival. that is a huge fight. now but meijer in the game that in of itself is a big surprise. as you mentioned, you come on the, air just as the numbers start to come in in arizona. what we are waiting on here, let's see, here starts with the governor's base, we got one tiny county reporting just

cnn projects he will lose his primary in michigan's second district to trump endorsed challenger john gibbs after democrats meddled in his primary. >>> in arizona where election deniers are all over the ballot kari lake is leading karen taylor robson in the gop primary for governor. robson was endorsed by mike pence while lake was backed by trump and she is all in on the big lie. cnn has not called that race. >>> also in arizona cnn is projecting that regular seasoner bowers who testified before the january 6th committee will lose his primary to david farnsworth. bowers refused to participate in trump's effort to overturn arizona's 2020 election. let's bring in abby phillip anchor of "inside politics sunday" and mark preston host of "full stop with mark preston" on sirius xm. election night in america. let's start with kansas. abby, this stunned a lot of expectations. >> yeah, i think it's a really big deal and i was reading the "wall street journal" in morning and a republican strategist was quoted in there saying the same thing, basically, wake up, guys. that if you think that this

john gibbs is a weak opponent. we can't string a set of policies together that will make sense for western michigan. we will win that seat. we believe that by keeping those dangerous people out of power, we address the larger moral imperative, and that's our job. >> i know you are on the ballot tuesday. there is also a special election in new york that is basically testing these two competing messages. you guys are on the democratic side on abortion. is it fair to call that the winner, the party that wins that special, the one that has the upper hand? >> oh, well, that should be a republican victory. i see they're panic spending in the last week. they're clearly worried. look at what happened in kansas. the swing congressional district there, it got 68% support for abortion rights. in minnesota in that special election, we closed the gap in half. and in upstate new york, pat ryan, our candidate, he's a west point grad, he's a war hero starting a business, he's been running a county, he's a great candidate. i think

. >>> republican congressman peter meijer of michigan congratulating trump backed opponent john gibbs who narrowly defeated him in this week's republican primary. >> this was -- this was a hard-fought race, decided by less than 4,000 votes out of over 100,000 cast. you know, it was, you know, a long race, but a race that john ran very well. i just want to now officially introduce, send my congratulations and wishing the best of luck in all that is to come. >> meyer was one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump and his opponent received a major fundraising boost from democrats. joining us now since the prime certificate is congress peter meijer from michigan. you fought the good fight. you represented your constituents and your conscience and defended democracy but you came up short in this partisan primary. it was close, less than 4,000 vote margin separated you from your opponent. so do you think that the democratic congressional committee's major ad buy in the last week of the campaign made the decisive difference in your primary? >> good morning, john. i wi

i caught up with both of the candidates in this primary race, both peter meyer and john gibbs. both are coming into the election night confidently most of them say the internal polling has them leading and both of them say that impeachment and the former president's endorsement are going to have an impact on the results. but when you talk to voters here, voter who is are listening to the endorsement that the former president launches, there's a little more dynamic there. some voters say the former president's endorsement is key and others say this. listen here. >> roe v. wade schools because i'm a moderate republican and that was eisenhower. >> i love and support donald trump, absolutely. but i'm a free thinker. i don't have to always agree with him just because i think he's the greatest president that we have ever had. saying that i have, i have my own opinion. >> his endorsement is one factor but not the only factor. as far as the race for congress? >> now one thing unique about what we're seeing in michigan is many democratic groups, two democratic groups have spent money on

gibbs. there's a big gap between the mail-in vote in the same day vote. turns out there was a lot of same-day vote left around grand rapids. gibbs took the lion share of it and you see we haven't officially call it but this is a grim situation for meyer. >> tell me again for our viewers who didn't hear earlier of this concept of strategic voting. there were some democrats who were engaged in that in this race. there were democrats who in a vacuum would rather have peter mayer as their member of congress but thought that gibbs 's more defeat-able so supported him for the nomination. that story would be this. michigan change the way they draw their congressional lines for this now new redistricting district-ing. water resulted in this district was dramatically changed. i think it's a slightly democratically leaning district. it's definitely a winnable district for democrats. democrats look at these two candidates myers and gibbs, and said it gives us so many we can be. democrats spent big mone

and if i may, i think it's a little naive to believe that john gibbs is the danger facing our country. 139 republicans voted on january 20 -- january 6, 2021, to overturn the election. i mean, my goodness, this danger didn't start with the michigan primary and our -- and our concern is not that there would be one more extremist in the congress. we have a bunch of them already, you might have noticed. the danger is that -- is that maga republicans who will rip away reproductive freedom, who have eviscerate things like marriage equality, who vote against birth control, by the way that is correct they will be in control of the house of representatives and having weaker opponents and stronger candidates is a good thing for democrats. that's what we got in that primary. we're going to win that seat. >> we will see how the tactic plays out. congressman, i do want to ask you one last question before you go which is on this decision from president biden yesterday, this announcement when it comes to student loan debt relief, is it a decision that you agree with and that you think will be benef

john gibbs is a weak opponent. we can't string a set of policies together that will make sense for western michigan. we will win that seat. we believe that by keeping those dangerous people out of power, we address the larger moral imperative, and that's our job. >> i know you are on the ballot tuesday. there is also a special election in new york that is basically testing these two competing messages. you guys are on the democratic side on abortion. on the republican side, they're running on inflation. is it fair to call that the winner, the party that wins that special, the one that has the upper hand? >> oh, well, that should be a republican victory. i see they're panic spending in the last week. they're clearly worried. look at what happened in kansas. we won 14 counties that donald trump won in kansas. the swing congressional district there, it got 68% support for abortion rights. in minnesota in that special election, we closed the gap in half. and in upstate new york, pat ryan, our candidate, he's a west poi

gibbs. in missouri, eric schmitt beat out former governor eric griten to win the gop senate primary. he got 45.7% of the vote in missouri. james and dagen, your reaction? james, it was a big night last night and you're seeing a lot of success for the trump backed candidates. >> yeah, i also think the last race you mentioned, missouri, thats is good news for republicans. that looks like you now they --e now they hold that seat. might have been in doubt if schmidt had not won. viewers know him as the attorney general who was suing over the disclosure of whether the government violated the first amendment to lean on tech companies to censor materials on social media. as you point out, a lot of the trump backed candidates doing well also. the former president still very popular in the party and i think the republican establishment still needs to listen to the customer here who is still i think is saying in many cases they don't like establishment candidates, they don't like conventional candidat

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also in michigan, nbc news projects john gibbs as the winner in the republican primary for the state's third congressional district. the trump-endorsed challenger to gop congressman peter meijer declared victory last night in the nationally watched race, gibbs was a political appointee in trump's housing and urban agency and pitched himself as an ultra conservative replacement for congressman meijer, meijer was one of ten republicans who voted to impeach then president trump for the attack on the capitol. gibbs is one of several trump-backed republicans that have been boosting the idea is that the democratic candidate will have a better chance of defeating a more extreme republican opponent this fall, so, steve kornacki, talk if you could about meijer's loss. there were two other republican members of congress who voted to impeach trump running yesterday, how did they do? >> yeah, interesting story. you could see meijer close, but not close enough to pulling this thing out. the back story here, you started to get at it, as michigan changed the way they do redistricting for this cycle.

reporter: in michigan's third congressional district race trump backed candidate john gibbs defeated republican moderate peter meijer. gibbs won in help with democrats to financed his campaign. they prefer facing gibs in november viewing him as too radical to win. he worked in the trump administration and believe the election was stolen. last night he blasted the democrat strategy. >> dnc dropped half a million to prop up my primary challenger is not something we like to see. my democratic colleagues in washington at the outraged and cynicism and hypocrisy that represented. reporter: he sided with democrats voting to impeach president trump after january 6th and he paid the price. jackie. jackie: bryan llenas, thanks so much. let's get back too nancy pelosi's high-stakes trip. the speaker vowing an ironclad defense of taiwan. listen. >> today the world face as choice between democracy and autocracy. america's determination to preserve democracy here in taiwan and around the world remains ironclad. jackie: former navy seal team six commander dave sears joins me now. good afternoon. gr

gibbs, my former colleague in administration. he served in the opioids cabinet a ran. a great member of our administration beating pete meijer the freshman. you have john james and amanda atkins and a female republican nominee as governor. why is this important? for a few reasons. in 2020 even though joe biden became the president, you had no republican incumbent losing his or her seat. of the 15 blue to red changes in the house 11 were taken by women and all 15 were taken by a candidate of color, female, veteran or some combination there of. that continues. last point. we see this continuing trend starting from 2016 where hillary clinton won the hispanic vote. in 2020 joe biden won. a 17 point decrease. now the democrats if you look at all the polling in these primaries so far the only read 12 or 13%. not just that republicans continue to win hispanic voters but winning with hispanic candidates. but that's a huge trend going. in last point about pete meijer. he is a freshman member. he was one of the 10 who voted to impeach pres

trump over the january 6th insurrection conceded overnight to his trump-backed opponent john gibbs tutor dixon has emerged as the gop nominee for governor. >> our work isn't finished we are just getting started and i hear it's going to be a rough ride. >> reporter: in missouri's senate gop primary where it was eric versus eric, attorney general eric schmitt defeating former governor eric brighten. >> ready to take this country back >> let's go back to the victory for abortion rights in kansas. so that result surprised a lot of folks what does that mean for the midterms a couple months away? >> a couple of things. look at the turnout here it was big 900,000 people voted here. nearly double the number of people who voted in the 2018 primaries. and when you dig into the numbers, there is a suggestion that a sizable number of republicans voted for protecting the current abortion access in kansas you can see that in the dropoff of how many republicans voted in the kansas primary races versus the abortion measure big picture, when you ask about what are the takeaways for the midterms, it sugge

peter meyer conceding to trump-endorsed conservative challenger john gibbs. now to missouri where torn general eric schmidt if beat out another former governor and a packed field of republicans to win the senate primary there. donald trump endorsing eric, still don't know which won. finally, jamie herera butler, who voted to impeach the form orer president, is lagging behind democrat marie we perez mt. primary there, another -- in the primary there. dan newhouse is holding on to a slim lead in his washington congressional race. that's why is there a democrat and republican, it's a jumbled primary. i think he should be happy. stuart: thank you very much. check futures, please. i see green. dow's going to be up about 170, nasdaq up about 80 points right there. eddie ghabour is back with us. yeah, the star himself. all right, eddie. you've been saying get out of stocks because you think the market's going to go down more. look, we've had a pretty solid rally recently. do you still think we're going down more from here? >> absolutely, stuart. look, this isn't the

gibbs. ron, let me bring you in on this before we go back to frank. it may well be that 2024 that donald trump loses altitude. but the shape of your party is changing beyond all recognition, away from any of the traditional values we might�*ve associated with the republican party. l associated with the republican ta . ., ., associated with the republican party. i have to say this, i think donald trump _ party. i have to say this, i think donald trump without - party. i have to say this, i think donald trump without question j party. i have to say this, i think- donald trump without question has immense influence in the republican party. but i think if you ask your traditional republican like myself, what you stand for, strong conservative values based on economics, strong national defence, you might not find the same reaction amongst the champions. i think they rally around 1% rather than rally behind one party. i would caution yes, trump still has significant influence but i don't believe

gibbs, who is a challenger to peter myers. myers was one of the 10 house republicans who voted for impeachment. he has more money, more name i.d. but with the president's endorsement. especially the fact that more than 600,000 have already filed their return ballot. >> shaq. all right to kansas now. a key post measure is on the ballot. dasha burns, tell us about it. >> reporter: well, mika, i'm standing in front of one of just five abortion clinics in the entire state of kansas. but it recently became one of the few clinics in the entire region, as after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, many of the surrounding states enacted all-out ban or severe restrictions on the procedure. kansas has become the first in the nation to vote on the abortion issue tomorrow. on the ballot is the value of the vote amendment. which targets the 2019 kansas supreme court amendment that ruled abortion rights are protected in the kansas state constitution. if this amendment passes, it would remove constitutional protection frgs abortion, and