Mark Finchem will win the GOP nomination for Arizona secretary of state, CNN projects.
Finchem is a Trump-endorsed election denier. Finchem attended the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally and has peddled the QAnon conspiracy theory.
By Elise Hammond, Maureen Chowdhury, Melissa Macaya and Adrienne Vogt, CNN
Mark Finchem will win the GOP nomination for Arizona secretary of state, CNN projects.
Finchem is a Trump-endorsed election denier. Finchem attended the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally and has peddled the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Blake Masters will win the Arizona Republican Senate primary race, CNN projects.
He’ll face incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly in November.
Masters is a venture capitalist who former President Donald Trump backed. He also worked closely with billionaire Peter Thiel, who backed Masters’ bid financially.
Masters has spread lies about the results of the 2020 election and accused Democrats of trying to “change the demographics” of the country.
From CNN's Eric Bradner, Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg
Kansas voters handed abortion-rights advocates a massive victory Tuesday, surging to the polls to defeat a measure that would have allowed the GOP-led legislature to impose new restrictions.
The vote in Kansas was one of the first tests of the potency of abortion rights at the ballot box since the Supreme Court's decision to reverse Roe v. Wade and end the federal protection of abortion access.
Meanwhile, in Arizona, local elections officials were still counting votes to determine whether a slate of statewide candidates who were endorsed by former President Donald Trump and promoted his lies about election fraud won their Republican primaries.
In Missouri, the political comeback of a former governor was shut down. And in Michigan, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump was ousted, while the matchup was set for what will be one of the key gubernatorial races this fall.
Here are some key takeaways so far from Tuesday's primaries:
Keep reading more takeaways here.
From CNN staff
Rep. Peter Meijer became the second of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump to be ousted in a primary Tuesday, losing to Trump-endorsed conservative challenger John Gibbs in the GOP primary for his seat in Michigan's 3rd Congressional District, CNN projects.
Meijer, a freshman, voted to impeach the then-President just days after taking office, after the insurrection at the US Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021. Gibbs, meanwhile, backed Trump’s lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Meijer’s loss means the Grand Rapids-based 3rd District seat will be one of the most competitive House contests in November’s midterm elections.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, eyeing the seat as a possible pick-up opportunity, spent more than $300,000 on television ads seeking to bolster Gibbs with pro-Trump GOP primary voters by portraying him as a Trump-aligned conservative.
Meijer, at his election night event at a bar in Grand Rapids, said he’d heard from House Democratic colleagues who were angry about the “hypocrisy that that represented.”
“Obviously the DCCC dropping a half-million dollar ad buy to prop up my primary challenger with seven days to go is not something we liked to see,” he said.
From CNN's Andrew Menezes
Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs will advance to the general election in November for the remaining two years of his predecessor’s term, CNN projects.
Hobbs, a Democrat, was appointed to the position by Gov. Jay Inslee in November to succeed Republican Kim Wyman, who resigned to become the election security lead for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Wyman was in her third term when she resigned.
While Washington has become a reliably blue state in recent decades, Democrats haven't won an election for secretary of state here since 1960.
From CNN staff
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.
From CNN's Brian Rokus in Washington, DC
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.
“The Supreme Court’s extreme decision to overturn Roe v. Wade put women’s health and lives at risk. Tonight, the American people had something to say about it,” it adds.
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.
From CNN's Eric Bradner in Grand Rapids, Michigan
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.
“Obviously the DCCC dropping a half-million dollar ad buy to prop up my primary challenger with seven days to go is not something we liked to see,” he told reporters and supporters in brief remarks at his election night gathering at a bar in Grand Rapids.
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.
From CNN staff
Kris Kobach will win the GOP nomination for Kansas attorney general, CNN projects.
Kobach is a former Kansas secretary of state and lost bids for governor and US Senate in recent cycles.
Others running in the GOP primary Tuesday for state attorney general included former federal prosecutor Tony Mattivi and state Sen. Kellie Warren.
A staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, Kobach served on Trump's voter fraud commission in 2017 and was endorsed by the President during his 2018 run for governor, a race he lost to Democrat Laura Kelly in deep-red Kansas.
Kobach has prioritized issues such as border control and was the general counsel and board member for a private border wall project that was at the center of a fraud investigation in 2020.
On the campaign trail, Kobach, who was endorsed by GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former US Attorney General John Ashcroft, vowed to take on the Biden administration if elected attorney general.