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night in america where democracy was on the ballot. first a stunning rejection by voters in conservative kansas. voters defeating an amendment aimed at restricting abortion rights and the result wasn't close. kansas is the first state to vote on the issue since the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. perhaps even more significant was the voter turnout here because nearly 700,000 votes were cast in tuesday's primary and that dwarfs the voter turnout in the state's 2020 presidential primary election. five states in all held primaries on tuesday, one other big take away here...

robson was endorsed by mike pence. cnn has not yet called that race. also in arizona, cnn is projecting that rusty bowers, the state house speaker who testified before the january 6th committee, will lose his primary to david farnsworth. bowers refused to participate in trump's efforts to throw arizona's 2020 election into doubt. >> and in michigan, cnn projects election denier tudor dixon has won the republican primary for governor. she will face gretchen whitmer in the fall. also in michigan, peter meijer, one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump has been ...

efforts mainly from the pro-choice viewpoint, and that's generating plenty of television session isments. -- segments. >> you may have seen a bunch of anecdotal stories, we're trying to see -- >> women of child-bearing age are getting denied access to medication. the woman who was toll she needed to fill two diapers with blood. >> abortion access post-roe was going to help them connect with american voters? well, instead over the past 24 hours they've revealed themselves as not just out of touch, but, frankly, ghoulish. >> a kansas city hospital temporarily required a approval from a...

strained relationship between china and the united states. and on capitol hill, kyrsten sinema is in the spotlight. the arizona senator is staying sigh leapt on whether she will support a major bill for her own party. ♪♪ good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, august 3rd. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we're going to begin with that major victory for abortion rights. voters in kansas have rejected an effort to remove the right to the procedure from the state's constitution. this marks the first time abortion rights was put to a vote sinc...

up early on "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. relief. excitement. joy. i'm very proud of our fellow kansans. >> we were telling people in neighboring states that their rights were no longer intact. they had to flee their states to get care. >> the cards were set against us from the start. >> as a husband i do not look forward to trusting the legislature to protect the rights of my wife. >> we're avoiding a huge horror that would have come to kansas. >> one of the things i heard, you may be against abortion for yourself, but you can't be against it and make it for som...