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 was a slue of election deniers backed by former president trump, they were winners. and here to break down the numbers is cnn s senior data analyst harry enten. hey, john. good morning. what we got? let s start in kansas which brianna was just talking b my goodness gracious, sometimes i get surprised by results and this is one of them. i did expect that no would win, that is that they w
washington s third district she right now is in the top two but we don t have a call there. around 50% in. let s move over to arizona. arizona, right now none of these races have calls but the trump-backed candidates are leading in all of them. here the trump-backed candidates ahead, the secretary of state race the trump-backed candidates ahead. blake masters is well ahead, he was backed by donald trump and here down in the attorney generals race the republican that was backed by donald trump again ahead, but i will point out both the governors and the senate race will be races we re watching this fall. absolutely. and this one pretty narrow, momentum shifted overnight. correct. let s go to michigan gov. another trumped-backed candidate, this one we do get the check mark for, tutor dixon well out ahead, 40% of the vote. she was not ahead a little while ago but the fact of the matter is that trump endorsement very much helped her out.
that have fact. all right. let s move on to the other big theme which is the trumpism election denial, specifically what happened to the republicans who voted to impeach donald trump. what do we know? we will start off in michigan, peter meijer goes down to defeat to john gibbs. there was a lot of democratic money backing john gibbs because the idea was that they thought that meyer was too strong in the general election. he does go down to defeat, the second republican to go down to defeat in a primary, tom rice was the other one in south carolina. that is a pretty narrow margin. 3,700 votes and change. that would indicate that that 400,000 spend by the dcc might have made a decisive difference. we will see if democrats come to regret that this fall. two other races in washington, dan knew house voted to impeach donald trump. right now he would finish in the top two. jaime herrera beutler over in
testifying to that at the house select committee he was very hesitant to say exactly what trump said and even to name trump in that circumstance because he kept citing executive privilege. so this could be something that brings us to another court fight, but it really is an aggressive step by investigators to want to bring him into the grand jury and lock down his testimony. it was clear that unburdened by what he perceived was that executive privilege he would have talked about it so he will have a lot to say there. thank you so much for the great reporting. first on cnn, court filings show the department of defense wiped the phones of top defense and army officials at the end of the trump administration. deleting any texts about the events surrounding the january 6th attack on the capitol. cnn s whitney wild is live in washington with the story. john this, all surfaced when
reaches deeper into trump s inner circle. cnn s senior crime and justice correspondent kaitlan polantz is joining us now on this. this is a big deal that they will be hearing from him. brianna, it really, really is. and for them to go after pat cipollone to try to lock down what he knew about january 6th just shows how serious, how significant this criminal investigation is into january 6. my colleague pamela brown was able to confirm last night a story first reported by abc news that former white house counsel pat cipollone has been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury that is investigating january 6th out of washington, d.c. and this sort of fact-finding step, it would be the sort of thing where prosecutors would want to talk to cipollone probably about what he spoke to the house select committee about, but also what he was witnessing, what he was hearing in the west wing, maybe things that the house select didn t ask him about, other things he may have witnessed. part of this, too