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An abortion access victory in Kansas. Trump-backed candidates on the rise. What the results of Tuesday\\u2019s elections could mean for the midterms in the fall.
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Kansas voters delivered the first election win to protect abortion access since the Supreme Court\\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Campaign reporter Hannah Knowles unpacks this surprising outcome \\u2014 supporters of abortion rights overwhelmingly won \\u2014 and what lessons it carries for the politics of abortion.
At the same time, many candidates backed by former president Donald Trump and those who denied he lost the 2020 election prevailed in their primary races Tuesday. Hannah says the fall midterms are expected to be a red wave even as Democrats \\u201chope that in the end, voters will just see these candidates as too extreme and especially see their kind of campaigns against democracy itself as too extreme.\\u201d
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