in missouri the battle of the two trump endorsed candidates called eric has been decided. and we seem to projects that missouri eric schmidt has won the republican nomination for senate, defeating the former governor eric greitens. and in washington state, the votes is still too early to call for tua publicans running for election who both voted to impeach donald trump. congresswoman jerry her rather butler s leading right now against trump endorsed candidate joe can t. and congressman dan newhouse is leading a tremendous candidate, lauren colp. steve kornacki with us all night, let s go over to the big board and see what s going on right now. i say you ve chosen to talk about arizona first. tell us what you are looking at. a bit of a potential surprise here in arizona, kerry lake, the republican backed by donald trump, former newscaster up there in arizona, had let in the polling in this race, and i think came in today as the favorite. you can see we got a lot of the vot
released right away in this first hour, all the votes that were received by about yesterday. that s basically what you are looking at here to start. so what was expected that vote would be the most favorable vote for karrin taylor robson so she needed to take the lead, she needed to build a little bit of a pad, because it was expected that the vote that was cast today, and then the final votes that will be kind of not till tomorrow, would be more favorable to kari lake. robson succeeded and getting a pad here. a pad of eight and a half points. it may well end up being enough to hold off lake. we are going to see some of the same day votes getting added here. like its number take up a little bit here. but robson came in today as the underdog. right now at 60% in, has a real shot at this. over the next couple hours, we re gonna see a trickle of the vote that was cast today get added to this. but that is basically gonna stop, and then maricopa county is the biggest one. here the
city. it s big, it s highly populous, we got what we think to be most of the votes in, about 95%. the nova s almost 60, above 68%. the yes vote is 31%. now when you compare that to how donald trump and joe biden did in the state, it s 15 points better than joe biden dead. and it s 12 points lower than donald trump did. this is the steve kornacki math that makes it all very interesting. people came out to vote and how to protect abortion rights in kansas. at rates much higher than they vote for democrats and kansas. yeah, well i think, first of, all i have to say this. this is a win for kansans. this is a win for our families and our rights. and tonight, i would say what you saw is what you are seeing as the numbers and getting close to seeing all the numbers but they are not all in yet.
for democrats, this is an interesting race to watch because a lot of people would say that a meijer is a rebuke of donald trump. on the other hand, meijer for mainstream viewers, might be more electable that gives in the long term. so it s not clear what some people want to happen with peter meijer. the other interesting story is that democrats weighted into this race. they spent big money trying to promote gibbs with republicans. the theory their theory being hey. get gibbs nominated for redistricting in michigan, change the third district, make it winnable for democrats. democrats are saying, we can beat gibbs, meijer is saying hey, look, you are seeing gibbs as a threat to democracy. you are saying that people that back trump s claims by the 2020 election our threat to democracy. why are you spending hundreds of thousand dollars trying to get them nominated? he can go win in the fall and then in office. you had a role in that.
when you look at arizona. this november. because it s gonna be so critical that arizona to that race to who controls the u.s. senate here. and the potential here, if blake masters, if he does get the republican nomination for the u.s. senate, would he be be running on tickets to be running a ticket vs robson? versus running on a ticket with lake? how voters in arizona perceive that. might be a little different. what else are you looking at? as you mentioned, kansas is the biggest surprise tonight. sitting at 60 40. the biggest suspense right now, still is in the third congressional district. let s see if we can get it up here, in michigan. this is around grand rapids. here it is, peter meijer, voted to impeach donald trump. freshman republican, that was one of his first votes casted as member of congress. now this one has kind of swung back and forth all night. but this has got to be discouraging what s been happening now in the last 15 minutes here. for peter meijer. his opponent,