Aug. 3, 2022: Last night's biggest primary winner wasnt a candidate
What a night. Millions of voters took to the polls\xa0yesterday, and the takeaways are many: the blocked political return of a scandal-plagued former governor, mixed results (once again) for former President Donald Trump, and primary defeats for two incumbent members of Congress seeking reelection.\nBut the most surprising vote \u2014 and possibly most wide-reaching \u2014 wasn\u2019t a race between two candidates; it came instead on one of the most divisive issues in American life: abortion rights.\xa0\nIn Kansas ... It marked the first time since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade that voters had a chance to directly weigh in on abortion rights.\nBy a stunning, roughly 20-point margin, Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have given state lawmakers the chance to either further restrict or ban abortions in the state. Turnout swelled \u2014 \u201capproaching what\u2019s typical for a fall election for governor,\u201d per the AP \u2014 and the \u201cno\u201d vote did well not just in Democratic strongholds, but in conservative and rural areas, outperforming Joe Biden's 2020 vote share there.\xa0\xa0\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.