night, we are going to get to it. great show. i will see you tomorrow. see you later! this is don lemon tonight. it s election night in america, and coming in from primaries in five states. cnn s projecting that trump endorsed candidate tutor dixon will win the michigan republican gubernatorial primary. it predicts eric schmidt has won the missouri gop senate primary. we ll have more results to come. twitter, dickson, and eric smith, the winners there. the fact, is in state after state, democracy is on the ballot tonight. will the gop be the party of trump and his election lies, or is there room left in the party of lincoln for candidates to defend our free and fair elections? we may get some answers tonight. the last polls just closing right now in arizona, their primaries, were trump backed candidates are all over the ballot, running for the senate, governor, and the secretary of state. the state that has been grand zero for trump s postelection defeat revenge tour. kyu
led to what biden called a precision strike targeting the most wanted terrorist. we make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. zawahiri s death comes 11 years after the u.s. killed osama bin laden. at one point he was bin laden s personal physician. jasmine wright has more on biden s decision to take him out, and ben wedeman joining us with the details on the strike itself. let s start with the strike. it was months in the making. what more do we know about the operation itself? reporter: basically it was done by a drone that fired two hell fire missiles on to the balcony of the building that ayman al zawahiri and his family were living in in kabul, it happened at 6:18 a.m. local time in kabul. and this obviously, yes, as we ve heard time and time again, this was an operation long in the making. but what is interesting is that until now it is
78% of the votes in. still, i want to get to john king, nick valencia, abby philip, to digest this and talk about it. john, to you first. we were just talking about kansas at the top of the show, at the top of the hour. kansas is the first state to let voters weigh in on abortion post-roe. one of the results there? in the very first, it s a statewide referendum, should we change the state constitution, a question for kansas voters. this red state, democratic conservative state in the middle of america. and by large margin, this is where the kansas are saying no. our state constitution right now guarantees the right to abortion, and they do not want to change. they do not want to open it up, if you will, to let the legislature consider a total ban on abortion or more restrictions on abortion. watch how the vote plays out. it s significant, because, number one it s happening in the conservative part of america. significant, number two, because it s the first ballot initiative, the fi
maintaining the right to abortion. let s take a look at our vote board right now, look at that, 61.8% to 38. 1%. 78% of the vote is in. still, i want to get to john king, nick valencia, abby philip, to digest this and talk about it. john, to you first. we were just talking about kansas at the top of the show, at the top of the hour. kansas is the first state to let voters weigh in on abortion post-roe. what are the results there? in the very first, it s a statewide referendum, should we change the state constitution, was the question for kansas voters. this red state, democratic conservative state in the middle of america. and by a large margin kansans are saying no. our state constitution right now guarantees the right to abortion, and they do not want to change. they do not want to open it up, if you will, to let the legislature consider a total ban on abortion or more restrictions on abortion. watch how the vote plays out. it s significant, because, number one it s happening in
deciding on abortion post-roe, but this strategy of taking the decision to the voters and looking at state constitutions is really where activists on both sides are looking now that we don t have roe v. wade, they are looking at what they are do in state constitutions. so the question here, whether kansas constitution will not contain a right to abortion and other states like vermont, michigan, activists are trying to enshrine the right in the constitutions. and a lot of legal challenges that we re seeing. florida and along with other states saying here is what we have in terms of rights in our state constitution. it is interesting, you and i were talking a little bit in the break the way some of the messing has started to shift from the anti-abortion movement and the abortion rights movement in the wake of roe. is one voice becoming louder than the other at this point?