Kansas was the first state to let voters weigh in on abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe

Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez will advance to the general election in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, CNN projects.

Washington state has an open primary system, which sees all candidates run on the same ballot, regardless of party, with the top two vote-getters advancing to November.

Republicans are now fighting to secure the second spot. Incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump last year, is seeking a seventh term representing the 3rd District.

Other Republicans in the race include Joe Kent, who has Trump’s backing and says that the 2020 election was stolen. Kent has made Herrera Beutler’s vote for impeachment a center point of his campaign. Author Heidi St. John and state Rep. Vicki Kraft, both Republicans, are also running.

President Biden released a statement on tonight’s vote in Kansas maintaining the right to an abortion in the state’s constitution. 

“This vote makes clear what we know: the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to abortion and should have the right to make their own health care decisions. Congress should listen to the will of the American people and restore the protections of Roe as federal law,” Biden said in the statement.

Kansas voters voted “no” on a proposed constitutional amendment, according to a CNN projection.

More background: The vote comes after a 2019 state Supreme Court ruling found the state constitution does protect the right to an abortion. A “yes” vote on the amendment would have removed the right to abortion from the state constitution and allowed GOP lawmakers to pass further restriction or a ban on abortion, while a “no” vote maintains it.

Polls have consistently shown that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is broadly unpopular. A CNN poll released in late July found nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the Supreme Court decision, with even 55% of self-identified moderate or liberal Republicans saying they disapproved of the decision. But the results on Tuesday, the first electoral test of abortion rights after the Supreme Court decision, put an even finer point on that sentiment.

Republican Rep. Peter Meijer slammed national Democrats for pumping money into his primary challenger John Gibbs’ campaign Tuesday night, saying he’d heard from House Democratic colleagues who were angry about the “hypocrisy that that represented.” 

Meijer, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 insurrection, was locked in a tight race with Trump-backed Gibbs. 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pumped more than $300,000 into an advertising campaign portraying Gibbs as too conservative and too closely aligned with Trump — ads designed to boost Gibbs among Republican primary voters. 

Meijer said it “may well be in the early morning” when the final outcome is clear in the Grand Rapids-based 3rd District. 

“We’re still feeling incredibly confident and incredibly proud of the support we have so far,” Meijer said. 

Kris Kobach will win the GOP nomination for Kansas attorney general, CNN projects.

Kobach is a former Kansas secretary of state and lost previous bids for governor and US Senate.

Trudy Busch Valentine will win the Democratic nomination in Missouri’s Senate race, CNN projects. She defeated several other candidates on the ballot.

Busch Valentine will now face Republican nominee Eric Schmitt in the general election in November to fill retiring Sen. Roy Blunt’s seat.

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and Republican Tiffany Smiley will advance to the November election in Washington’s Senate race, CNN projects.

The state uses a “top two” primary system where candidates of all parties appear on the same ballot and the top two finishers advance to the general election.

Murray, the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate who was first elected in 1992, is seeking a sixth term in office. 

Smiley was seen as the leading Republican candidate throughout the race and has the support of national Republicans. Washington voters, though, have not elected a Republican to the US Senate since 1994.

Incumbent Rep. Paul Gosar will win the GOP nomination for Arizona’s 9th Congressional District, CNN projects.

Gosar currently represents the 4th Congressional District but due to redistricting he is now running to represent the 9th Congressional District.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt accepted victory tonight as the Republican Senate nominee, declaring to cheering supporters that “Missouri needs a senator who wakes up every day to fight for them.”

Schmitt easily defeated Rep. Vicky Hartzler and former Gov. Eric Greitens in a contest that bitterly divided many Missouri Republicans. He implored the party to unify, saying “For those who didn’t vote for me, I welcome you to join my campaign.”

In his victory speech, Schmitt did not mention former President Donald Trump, who called to congratulate him shortly before taking stage. He also did not mention Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who he has said he would not support as the party’s Senate leader.

Missouri voters delivered a resounding rejection of Gretein’s attempt at a political comeback. His defeat came as a relief to many Republicans who believed Greitens would endanger the party’s effort to win control of the Senate.

“Here’s the truth. We’re just one election away from turning this country around,” Schmitt said. “This election can change the course of the country and save the republic.”

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs will win the Democratic nomination for governor, CNN projects, potentially setting the stage for a November general election focused on the integrity of the state’s largely mail-in election system. 

Hobbs is seeking to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Doug Ducey. 

She was heavily favored against Marco Lopez, the former mayor of Nogales who worked as the head of former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s commerce department and later, as chief of staff for US Customs and Border Protection during Napolitano’s tenure as Homeland Security secretary. 

Hobbs emerged as a national figure as she defended Arizona’s 2020 election results against a raft of unfounded conspiracy theories advanced by former President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters in the state. 

Republicans in the Arizona Senate commissioned a partisan review of the 2020 results in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix. That review did not change the reality that now-President Biden won in 2020. Cyber Ninjas, the inexperienced company hired to conduct the review, and its subcontractors cast doubt on the veracity of tens of thousands of votes, though elections experts immediately pointed out Cyber Ninjas’ errors. Still, election deniers seized on the partisan review to advance their false claim that Trump was the victim of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. 

Hobbs has signaled she will focus on the issue of election integrity in November. Over the weekend, in an op-ed in The Arizona Republic, the state’s largest newspaper, Hobbs said that lies about election fraud have led to threats against local elections workers and placed a burden on law enforcement officers who she said are now on “high alert.” 

“This is not a partisan issue,” Hobbs wrote. “These attacks are happening because radical conspiracy theorists have spotted the gaps in our voting rights and election laws and are using loopholes like the Civil War-era Electoral Count Act to manipulate our democracy to their will.”