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excellent campaign. republicans would have been doing this and winning. we obviously saw they were not. it s not as easy as it looks. but at least a blueprint does exist out there in the post-trump era. and how they can win in a state leaning blue. brianna. if donald trump lets them do it that s exactly right. remember, donald trump put out a few statements supporting glenn youngkin. he did not put his presence known in the state. that would have been more problematic for glenn youngkin if donald trump had done a rollry or two. john, merry christmas. scott jennings was sitting on an election set in new york a few hours ago. yes. a mere handful of hours ago. i m not quite sure how i m here. you are a republican strategist. and you watch this stuff very carefully. what have you learned?
calculated guess this will be enough to push him over. but the electorate has changed. i would argue the issues that most virginians care about are, how are you going to protect me from covid and get the state economy moving, not what they are teaching on critical race theory, which they re not teaching in schools. they re not teaching that in schools. let s be very clear. if they turn out to vote. virginia has been trending democratic for years. it s a swing state leaning blue forever but only blue if you turn out to vote. that s the problem mcauliffe has put his finger on the pulse of. it s still got a purplish hue to it. you can turn people out by having a message that says the other side is very scary. another problem mcauliffe has had, he can t decide if youngkin or trump or romney. notice his messaging his been youngkin and taylor swift masters and his role in terms of running a very powerful investment firm. so i don t think they ve got a good way of trying to define
so here, you know, democrats need two house seats and one state senate seat to flip to the democrats in order to control the entirety of virginia state government. that would be crucial, obviously, ahead of the 2021 redistricting process if they were all in charge of the if one party was in charge of the entire process. but here is where that battle for suburbia, we saw in the congressional elections in 2018, democrats won several house seats in virginia because of this inroads they ve made into this traditional republican territory in american politics, the suburbs, that had been trending to the democrats. we saw virginia since barack obama became the first democrat to win it from 1964 onward, i believe, in 2008 become a more blue state, purplish, leaning blue, if you will. this is is an opportunity for democrats to make some inroads at the state legislative level which is where a lot of important stuff takes place. it determines the maps of how
to. we have people like john on the couch who s recognizing there s a fact that there s crisis at the southern border. the problem is, congress doesn t want to address it. it s actually very easily solvable. president lindsey graham has a bill to address this. i would highly encourage president trump and congress to coalesce about it. okay, we ll move. a new poll suggests americans see fake news as a greater concern than terrorism or climate change. who voters blame for the proliferation of misinformation and what we can do about it. new warning signs for the president s re-election campaign, poll data showing one democratic presidential candidate with an edge in a deep red state. texas. two groups leaning blue, and how concerned they should be. we ll debate it.