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Has set this up, they really fostered this parallel that encourages with -- that president biden was like fdr, he was gonna pass the sweeping domestic program. so even the number all stroking around now, 1.7 five, it is a really big number, that is a really big package. it may not feel that way now that these province have been pared down from pretty expansive campaign promises. but well have to see. right now, they have no package. and thats something that the mccaul of people and democrats in ...

Has become something of a bellwether for democrats and republicans looking ahead at the midterms in 2022. admittedly, largely because the news media has decided its a bellwether. tonight, the president was back in virginia to campaign for terry mcauliffe. hes in a tight race with his republican opponent glenn youngkin, who had which has raised alarms among democrats as you might imagine. during the rally, biden made a point of putting the focus on former president trump. >> we terrys running aga...

From mask and vaccine mandates to school curriculum. >> its not republicans against democrats anymore. this is virginians standing up for our rights and particularly for the rights of our kids. >> reporter: hes trying to tap into the rising power of the parents movement, releasing a new ad featuring a conservative activist who so the to block the pulitzer prize-winning book "beloved" from being taught in virginia classrooms. >> he understands, parents matter. join me in voting for glenn youngkin...

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are deadlocked exactly one week out from Virginia's gubernatorial election, according to a Suffolk University poll released on Tuesday.

Child care and climate change and health expansion even though they dont have those. that is basically as good as they can get is stay with us its coming. >> shannon, i think what terry mcauliffe is asking for is, please. dont dysfunction your way out of the election for me. and, look. he has first-hand experience in this. as we mentioned before, in 2013 you had a government shutdown that the congressional republicans engineered. then you had the failure to launch at health care.gov and the wash...

Challenger youngkin in a dead heat with one week to go before voters head to the polls. joining us is virginia politics reporter for the "richmond times dispatch." thank you so much for being with us this morning. how is it going? what is the state of the race right now? >> hey, prixianbrianna. thanks for having me. this was the race to watch in 2021 because virginia is a great bellwether for how voters are doing and feeling nationwide. in the last few weeks, this race has gotten really close. m...

Race. you said it is a bellwether. what are you extrapolating from this race? >> i think, first of all, there was a big question about the role that former president donald trump would play in this race. i think democrats worked really hard to tie youngkin to donald trump. and hes managed to sort of straddle the line between, obviously, you know, staying vocally he supports former president trump and would support him again if he ran in 2024. also, he barely mentions his name, and the two never ...

Virginia why? why did you agree? >> i think to echo everyones point that this is a bellwether this is the canary in the goldmine here in virginia. what she read from political, that becomes the playbook. it will be successful in part because it hits at the heart of what parents in americans care about, which is their children education, their ability to leave freely, their ability not to be indoctrinated into have choice over the way they live. >> exactly. >> it seems so obvious. its obvious we ...

Sees this race then well head down to virginia. >> yeah. the white house is watching this wearily. they recognize here that this is fairly or not, its a bellwether, a referendum. its an off off year election. we saw that governor in california. this race, its a dead heat and mcauliffe and biden are fairly similarly in terms of their ideology. more moderate democrats. this is a state joe biden won by ten points just a year ago. we know the presidents poll numbers have sagged in the wake of the af...

But what republicans do very well is go towards the end and often in the beginning republican wills fire up their base. and to me, joy, whats happening in virginia now is going to be a real bellwether for democrats going to the midterm because quite frankly, even though a lot of the establishment democrats dont get that, republicans do. it is in fact about the base, and so if you look at the polling numbers right now, quite frankly, the averages dont look very different from what northams averag...