just like donald trump, and that s why donald trump, his final campaign will be for glenn youngkin here in virginia. we don t want swamp, we don t want youngkin. we don t want the hatred and division. friday night you were talking unpaid family leave and lowering the cost of prescription drugs. you bet. these are two issues not in the bigger social spending agenda that the president is trying to get congress to support. i m just curious, what has this debate done to your campaign? has it been a bit debilitating? people are not when i travel around virginia, they re not asking about what s going on in washington. obviously everybody would like to see these bills passed. i d love it as governor to get the $7 billion for roads here for the commonwealth of virginia. what i get asked about is covid. i m running against an anti-vaxer. i believe teachers, doctors,
democrat terry mcauliffe running for his old job against republican glenn youngkin with local issues like jobs and covid competing with the national realities about the state of the biden agenda, that spending vote which may in the end come too late to boost any enthusiasm for the democrat on the ground there. and a test for the republican party balancing trumpy drama with electoral reality. a republican candidate trying to have it both ways, as the washington post editorial recently put it, appealing to the suburban centrists out there while trying to pacify the maga faithful. it has been a dance occurring in public, democrats exploiting that as a weakness potentially for republican glenn youngkin. he s created hatred and division just like donald trump. tyranny is running against an acolyte of donald trump. we don t want trump, we don t want youngkin. he won t allow donald trump to campaign for him in this state. state.
virginians. meantime mcauliffe s strategy has been equally clear, attempt to nationalize this race and tie youngkin has much as you can to donald trump. he s created hatred and division just like donald trump. and that s why donald trump, his final campaign is going to be for glenn youngkin here in virginia. we don t want trump, we don t want youngkin, we don t want the hatred and division. that brings us to the critical question. exactly whose strategy is working? of course we ll find out when polls close tomorrow night and the results could tell us a lot about how both parties will campaign next year and what kind of political environment they ll face. now, for republicans, a win would be an earthquake in a former gop bastion that s got to the democrats in a 15-year rising blue tide of races for national office. democrats counter this is a race for governor and the party that just won the white house has always lost the virginia governor s race the next year, with one exception