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President, but for democrats as we head into the midterms? >> oh, its an historic achievement that will go down in history in helping the american people. more importantly in 2022 our midterm strategy has to run on the progress weve made, the promises we delivered on, what weve done for the american people. this trump rhetoric gets exhausting. we want something to motivate us. the best way to shore up our ground game is to run on something weve accomplished. there are some pieces like climate an...

Arthel: in essence, whats on the ballot? >> a lot of local issues that arent being paid a lot of attention to. theres a budget deficit in virginia not as bad as other states but still there. taxes, rising healthcare costs, these are all incredibly important local issues but in a race, its become so nationalized and thats what research shows, we are talking about education in terms of national debate about race theory rather than local school board issues which in the past have been just local is...

Driving this with lauren wright, political scientist princeton university. first of all, if im sitting in plano or petaluma or prime, why should i care about the outcome of the governors race in virginia? >> thats a great framing for this conversation because in general, i would say there actually overemphasized, its hard to draw conclusions about national elections from these individual races, especially years in advance so it will be a close race but regardless of the outcome, the tendency of ...

The infra structure plan early august about house has to think from we have seen the house on the precipice of voting for four, nancy pelosi will call the roll call vote if they impact the numbers to pass the bills. jon: a lot of back-and-forth and missed deadlines on all of this. chad program, thank you. the closely watched forget junior governors race and backstretch with three days to go when the brothers head to the polls from our next guest at this rates is the starting line defeating democ...

Midterm. >> schooling, education, the whole business about critical race theory which is not even, you know, k through 12 curriculum agenda. but it does seem to be taking -- catching fire with school districts, and school boards under fire. >> this is an issue youngkin and his campaign have used to tie across a number of plank that pertains covid and build school are keeping them closed too long and in person education and culture and whether the curriculum is too progressive and offensive to pa...

Relatively popular when he left office. it would to combination of things. when i have looked for this president to be able to do based on his bringing people together mantra, why wasnt he the one to stop the slide for terry mcauliffe. why wasnt he the one to come in. he calls it the america rescue plan. mcauliffe made it worse but you have a flip in that race. he couldnt stop the slide. >> kayleigh: he couldnt. he won the state by ten points but bidens approval rating is 43%. they are calling i...

Sirn ma say that, the entire agenda will be stalled. >> and this year jake sherman is going dressed as the cranky old man. are the republicans loving every minute of this? >> reporter: they love it. the best thing that could happen to them in their view. i think republicans obviously have a little bit of an advantage because history indicates that they will have the advantage in the midterm. obviously there are other circumstances. but kevin mccarthy is watching this and saying these are democra...

I am glad you dont have your cat today. >> how do you know? >> hopefully hell make an appearance on screen. >> this is one of the most important moments of his presidency for him and democrats holding onto both house of congress next fall. how important they get something done right now? they have not yet. >> democrats should look at the big picture. lets get to the meta if i can. excuse me facebook, well get to that. the president needed to leave town with a win behind him. instead, progressive...

Youngkin. >> benjamin: brad, i will let you respond, it saying that it had an impact, is not not working anymore? 24 times calling on president trump and compared him to him that he is a candidate, if you look at these polls? >> there is no doubt it is working, lets not talk about the polls, "the washington post" has him up, now we have trump rattling for her youngkin he will do a rally for him, he cannot distance himself from trump, and that will concern the voters going into the polls. >> benj...

Lead that could be important not for what happens on tuesday, but a blueprint for what republican should do going ahead to the 2022 midterm. >> anita: picking up on that team, even if he were to pull things out in the end, what is the message for democrats and president biden. you talk about education being a central issue in the race, but it could be all over the country, right? >> absolutely, on the flip side that gavin newsom had the call in your state of california there was a thought that b...