districts in virginia to the democrats in 2018, repudiated, trumpeted 2020, and most of those suburban counties as you ve talked about throughout the night with bill on the wall and now flip back to glenn youngkin pro he spent $7 millio for example on a positive persuasion in support of his campaign before terry mc auliffe spent a dollar. he had really strong favorables and a lot of that exit polling that she has been talking about with these voters reaction to this. that was a really hard deficit, even though terry hammered home the idea that glenn was glenn was trumped, that wasn t necessarily the case in a lot o the mindsets of these voters as we are seeing this play out in the commonwealth. it was white women in virginia that was the biggest turn. biden one 50-49 over donald trump in 2020, and this race,
kevin, how do you feel about that? it seems like that would not be a republican issue but democrats and republicans care about taxes and saving money. yeah. it s certainly an effective argument as we know from the great fox news exit polling that shannon bream was talking throughout the night in terms of what she was saying, the economy was the number one issue. as we move further away from this be 26 crisis, 80% of americans with one dose of the vaccine and hopefully as we close that chapter in the nation s history and we look more towards as we talk about before on this panel, bread-and-butter issues like the grocery tack that glenn youngkin mentioned, democrats have got to get tough on those issues as well and make the case of the american people that we can work with republicans when it comes to tax issues, that we can cut the wealth tax we would in this reconciliation package, but we just got to sell it to the american people because coming out of tonight s results, that is a wi
and they might have voted one party or the other based on their families, but this was about the issues. steve: right. and for the parents who lived through the pandemic where the kids were at home, they looked over their shoulders for a year and they said okay, wait a minute, what are you learning? and then they say hey, what are you teaching them? and it s like we are not teaching them that. they said i saw it with my own two eyes. according to the exit polling in virginia. number one issue by a long ways was the economy followed by coronavirus and then, of course, education. when you look at how terry mcauliffe nationalized this by bringing in democratic all stars which clearly backfired people want the to talk about the local issues. for the most part glenn youngkin kept donald trump arms length through the campaign. what s interesting when you look at the washington post this morning, in the reddest part of virginia, way out in southwest virginia about where lawrence was yesterd
that they did not like president trump, they were still willing to vote for glenn youngkin. a republican who takes a different path, do you think there will be a pivot to different ways of addressing some of these issues by democrats in the next 10-12 months? it s a great question. i ve been following closely your analysis the last couple of hours with regard to the exit polling. i think you ve indicated that the economy was a number one issue with coronavirus second to that. in terms of exit polling. you look at the ballot numbers in terms of republicans right now leading democrats on generic ballots when it comes to the economy. certainly obviously covid-19 was a critical issue in 2020, it s what the liver joe biden to the white house. that hopefully is in the rearview mirror as we talk about the rise in vaccinations, nearly 80% of americans have the first doubt that we talk about earlier this week. the economy, glenn youngkin glenn youngkin singh that in his acceptance speech when
deployed race, lies and voter suppression as a path to victory. this is the original lie. we saw in exit polling, right voters breaking something lik 70/30 for youngkin and black voters 80 for mcauliffe and two-thirds of asians voting for mcauliffe and the scapegoating as a narrative and start asking why white voters are come police complacent on it. i want your take because we saw in the exit polling white women did remain loyal. look, this is not something that started with trump and i think if we re going to move forward, we have to be honest about that. racists have always felt comfortable in the republican party. why does that happen and what can be done now to change that? well, republicans use that,