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president biden continues to defend his performance on the economy. why fact checkers say the numbers don t add up. the spike in crime could be worse than we think. we ll look at a new report that finds 40% of the country s law enforcement agencies have failed to report crime stats to the fbi in 2021 leaving us wondering what the real picture is. we begin with team coverage of another primary election night. mark meredith is in south carolina where there s a split decision to the two g.o.p. representatives who face off with two trump challengers. and bret baier joins us live in studio tonight to kick off our coverage on what would be a bellwether special election in the texas border district. very interesting one, brett. reporter: shannon, good evening. this is a really big deal. as we go to the big board here, i can tell that you this texas election, a special election in texas 34 which is a district that is essentially 84%, 84% hispanic. there s theboard i said woul ....
State rep russell fry had a very good night easily able to defeat the five-term republican incumbent tom rice. trump made it very clear he was eager to see rice out of office. it could be considered an easy win from the former democratic candidate. rice has been an outspoken critic of him and voted to impeach him in 2021. closer to charleston where we re in the low country, incumbent republican congresswoman nancy mace had a good night tonight able to defeat former state rep arrington. this ll be a chance for this to be seen as a defeat for trump because he had wanted to see arrington in this seat. he was a vocal critic of nancy mace ever since she criticized him following the january 6th riots. this is what she had to say to the left. i promised when i ran in 2020 that i would be an independent voice. i promised that i would not toe the party line. ....
reporter: we also have a statement just out from the former president who said arrington i was long shot but ran a great race and way overperformed. gone gratz to nancy mace who should be able to easily defeat her democratic opponent. while mace did win her race, she may be able to thank the former governor of south carolina,nically haley who nikki haley, she campaigned hand-in-hand with mace trying to get out the vote. we were on the road with her yesterday. this could be a big win for nikki haley. she has endorsement clout. while politics in this state it s midnight here. we just checked. the heat index is 93 degrees! it s got to be the lead story. shannon: it s no joke across the south right now. mark, thank you very much for updating us. let s take a deeper dive now into all of today s primary special elections and talk about the impact of the races we ve already checked in on. back with us now, fox news ....