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Position republicans well as a big majority party, because clearly a majority of americans do not see -- a majority of americans voted for barack obama twice. and the president won a resounding majority as well. this is not where the majority of americans are. going into this election cycle, if this is a focal point where democrats can hammer republicans on the big lie, as well as hammer them to the ties of a corrupt president, i think it does not bode well for what should be quite frankly a goo...

Complete election denier, he is now the republican nominee to become secretary of state in arizona and have oversight over the elections there. you asked about trump. i want to show you one other contest that we tracked last night, and that was in michigan, because peter meyer, the republican from the grand rapids area here, lost his primary to john gibbs, peter meyer one of the 10 republicans who voted to impeach donald trump, john gibbs had trumps backing and peter meyer lost his job, because ...

To get his opponent. >> and these have been top targets for trump world, to get these republicans out who voted for impeachment. this has been a key strategy all along ever this happened. it wasnt just the senate races. and you have to look at it through that lens about how much time and money that trump world has been putting into those races in particular. and its not about the outcome of what happens in the house of representatives or even taking back the house, this is about getting those pe...

Election deniers? >> i think we need to be supporting candidates who are going to be good for democracy. >> thank you very much for your time. so here are some other headlines from yesterdays primaries. in arizona, it is projected that two trump-backed election deniers will win. brook masters is set to face off against democrat mark kelly in the fall senate race and state rep mark finchem, an organizer of the ironically named stop the steal movement, will be the republican nominee for arizonas...

And take stock of those ten house republicans who voted for impeachment. you have meyer, who joins tom rice in losing the primaries. you have butler and newhouse who are still in tight races, but look like they may hold their partys nomination. dan advanced to the general election in his california race. meanwhile, you have 4 out of the 10 chose to retire rather than run for reelection. then theres liz cheney. her primary is coming up in two weeks. so what do you think happens in wyoming on augu...

See if the suburbs come in bigger than expected numbers against this ballot measure. that is one thing im looking for. and the other thing as you mentioned it, this is a big day for a certain time of republican peter meijer in michigan, jaime herrera butler and dan newhouse in washington, three of the ten republicans who voted to impeach donald trump following january 6. weve been keeping track of this and you could see here, dave val de in california won his primary. and now we have three on th...

Where you really have the ghost of 2020 haunting this primary. here is what peter meyer said about his primary challenger potentially disputing the results. take a listen. >> even my primary challenger has talked about, you know, the need to have a very large margin because of supposed cheating, and i think that is a very dangerous thing to do to try to cast doubt and undermine. if there are issues every candidate has a right to challenge those. at the same time to cast doubt unnecessarily just ...

Into both races. the race to take on gretchen whitmer and the race here in this congressional district sending over $325,000 in this primary race here, and spending about $2 million in ads against tudor dickson. thats something candidates have commented on, republican candidates saying democrats are meddling here. you have peter meyer saying this is democratic hypocrisy, saying if theyre boosting his primary opponent who has those baseless claims about the 2020 election, theyre doing a disservic...

Thats something that could emerge. here is a list of ten republican members of congress, the ten who voted to impeach donald trump following january 6th last year. weve been tracking what happened to them in 2022. you had one, david valadao who won his primary in california. donald trump didnt weigh in in that primary. he did weigh in in tom rices primary and he was soundly defeated in that primary. here today you have three republican -- i think you showed their pictures there, three republican...

There now leaves a lot of folks here in the political realm concerned about what she could try to mount in the weeks ahead. >> vaughn hilliard, thank you. great reporting. shaq, youre following races in michigan. one of which has peter meyer trying to hold on to his seat. meyer is somebody who voted to impeach former president trump. talking us through what youre seeing there. >> reporter: this would be a test of former president trumps influence over republican voters in this battleground state...