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Terry mcauliffe and republican glenn youngkin has gained national attention with some calling it an early referendum on joe bidens presidency. cbs ed okeefe reports tonight from virginia. >> reporter: its a jump ball here in virginia, with democrat terry mcauliffe and republican glenn youngkin in a dead heat. >> lets bring this baby hope! >> reporter: youngkin, the political newcomer and former college public player, showed off for reporters today, hoping to sink mcauliffe with a late republican...

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Who made the better bet? >> glen youngkin made the better bet. he is closing in the polls. he is tying this to national issues. and joe biden is the president of the united states. if you look at joe bidens popularity in the state of virginia and nationally, what do you see? joe bidens approval rating in the state of virginia is averaging 45%. compare that to his favorable rating on election in 2020, 22%. thats the same trends that besee nationally, right? bide season down to 4%, where on electi...

Typically do going into a midterm. the only drag on them right now is donald trump. and thats why youngkin is showing the way forward, like get trump behind us and lets find a new road map forward. >> youngkin tonight -- excuse me, mcauliffe said youngkin was doing an event with trump, which is not true. are democrats putting way too much stock in this anti-trump moment? is that enough to win when hes really not on the ballot? >> 100%. great point, don. i mean, the fact is democrats need to have...

Enthusiasm who dont think folks in washington delivered what they want the, yes they wanted trump out but they wanted somebody to actually do something. we know from the polygamy over and over we know from the polling over and over again a lot of democrats feel joe biden and party havent accomplished a great deal. this will be the first test to show whether or not keep democrats from home and independent voters turning against democrats because that switched from trump in 2016 to biden 2020. >> ...

>> i would argue glen youngkin did because hes closing in the polls. and look hes tieing this to nationaling issues in some ways and flight joe biden is the president of and right now joe biden the president looking at his popularity in virginia and nationally, in the state of virginia approval rating of 45%, compared to favorable rating on election day 2020 just 52%. thats basically the same trend were siege nationally. now biden down 43% versus election day 52% this is the thing so important w...

Year. i mean -- i mean, you are not going to be able to claim any credit for it. i also think what is happening is there is a sense of youngkin has momentum and you are seeing these statements coming out from him because he wants some of the credit here for this but i think youngkin did the right thing, and he ran his own race. he didnt feel like he had to lean on trump for anything. and unlike mcauliffe who feels like he has to lean on biden, obama, and every other democratic luminary. youngkin...

Within spitting distance of this thing is -- is miraculous in some ways when you look at the trend of virginia. i know what the history is but -- but this things gotten very democratic over the years and what republicans are looking for here, whether youngkin wins or loses, i think hes -- i think hes a slight favorite. i agree with larry sabato. what they are looking for here is does this party have a path back electorally in the suburbs? and what we have seen out of the youngkin campaign is a h...

Residence at christopher new part university, i feel we have learned a lot from virginia. what is the fact that it is so close the race in virginia in a state joe biden won by 10 points one year ago. . >> thats right. this is kind of i think a ghost of future christmas moment for democrats. what happens in virginia is not a guarantee of what will happen in the midterm. it is, in all likelihood, a preview of what will happen if the political environment does not improve for democrats. midterm ele...

If you will. i think that will be something that democrats have to look at in terms of trying to repogsz themselves for the midterm. voters dont necessarily want to hear that you will do things the same way and i think the message on that going into the midterms has to be better than right now. >> to the point about the numbers, new nbc polling not looking very good for president biden at the moment. the rating fallen 42%. one year out from the midterms. do you expect that number to go up at all...