my view is that maggie hasson has done a great job and no matter who wins the primary, she'll win the election in november. thank you, everybody. sorry, we have to hurry. >> the senate returns at 2:15 eastern to continue working on judicial nominations. early today, south carolina republican senator lindsey graham introduced legislation to ban abortion after 15 weeks nationwide and held a news conference on capitol hill on that bill and took questions from reporters. >>

my view is that maggie hasson has done a great job and no matter who wins the primary, she'll win the election in november. thank you, everybody. sorry, we have to hurry. >> the senate returns at 2:15 eastern to continue working on judicial nominations. early today, south carolina republican senator lindsey graham introduced legislation to ban abortion after 15 weeks nationwide and held a news conference on capitol hill on that bill and took questions from reporters. >> thank you, all. welcome, ladies. about the unborn. we'll introduce legislation, i along with a lot of my colleagues to basically get america in a position at the federal level that's fairly consist with the rest of the world. can we -- we have charts. shows you how serious we are. 15 weeks. a baby at the 15 week period. what does that mean? it means if you're going to operate on the baby, which happens to save the child's life, to provide medical treatment, the standard practice in medicine is to provide anesthesia. why would you do that? you provide anesthesia because the science tells us the 15 week period, the nerve

. >> his political opponent, maggie hasson is dismissing his ploy as a political ploy. masters is attempting to pivot to the center on key issues in an effort to reel in independent voters and unseat democrat mark kelly. here's cnn's kyung law. >> reporter: he pledges he is paving a path for the new political right. >> who is ready to beat mark kelly? [ applause ]. >> reporter: but first masters needs people like john kaine to get behind him. >> if he doesn't turn his head around, he's going to lose the election. >> are you concerned about him? . >> absolutely. he runs an ad on tv. and then at the end it says independent for arizona. i said what? >> reporter: it's the general election pivot. trying to appeal to independents who make up roughly a third of registered voters in arizona >> they have made a whole party out of just dividing people. >> reporter: it focuses on the border, inflation and crime. >> republicans have a plan to make our families safe again, to make the country prosperous and free again. does that sound extreme to you? >> reporter: but the rhetoric an

called bolduck, wished him all the best and the focus needs to be on defeating democratic senator maggie hassonnovember. so much outside money poured into this race so this was a big one. staying in new hampshire congressional district one, this is a big deal because caroline levit is 25 years old. she's a former trump aide. she beat another trump official matt mowers and now faces congressman chris pappas, one of the most vulnerable democrats and in the governor's race easy way for the incumbent republican chris sununu, not so easy win in rhode island, daniel mckee wins barely survived his primary. stuart: matt schlapp is with us this morning. matt, trump-backed candidates appear to be doing very well this primary season. is he very much now the leader of the republican party? >> yeah, you know, essentially, stuart, he's the incumbent president for republicans and if he chooses to run again i think that's pretty much how voters are going to view him. he's the endorsement that matter s in these primaries. he didn't endorse in the senate race, but bolduk was clearly associated with trump policie