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name only or a moderate in shorthand there. but you know he s conservative. his voting record, he rarely broke the ranks here. so on policy matters, you know, he s as republican as you can get. his only crime in the mind of trump is crossing trump. yeah. i mean, that s what donald trump defines a good republican as, is loyalty to him. and in some cases you have people who are quite loyal to trump who are also conservatives. and in adam kinzinger s case you have someone who s quite loyal to the traditional platform of the party and broke with trump on his personal conduct and personal behavior. that s just not acceptable to the former president. he sees that activist loyalty as weakening the republican party. i think the party needs to be a big enough tent to have more people in it, not fewer. the politics of addition aalways smarter than the politics of subtraction. but it s the people like adam kinzinger who fled the republican party in 2018 and 2020 in these suburban communities, c
married? mm-mm. no. i don t even know who he is anymore. he s not the same person. it s like a switch got flipped. reporter: she s not alone. others have taken to social media to express concerns about their marriages because of covid-19 misinformation. i ve spoken to about half a dozen couples who their relationships have kind of fallen apart under the weight of viral anti-vaxx disinformation. some are getting divorced. reporter: jasmine cook covers tech misinformation and conspiracy theories for huffpost. she s currently writing a book about the human toll of misinformation. a lot of their spouses didn t buy into conspiracy theories or misinformation before the pandemic. it s heartbreaking. for many of the couples i ve spoken with, vaccines have been a breaking point. reporter: ultimately, you would think you would be getting a divorce if it wasn t for misinformation, covid, the vaccine? no, i don t think so. i don t think we would be getting a divorce.
really leaned into a lot of the issues that he s been talking up, things like education and taxes. one issue that glenn youngkin is trying to stay away from, though, is former president donald trump. we ve seen democrats really trying to tie youngkin to donald trump throughout this campaign. trump has even signaled that he might be calling in to an election eve telerally with a conservative radio host. now, youngkin insists that he is not coming here to virginia, and for the most part he is really trying to stay away from talking about trump, trying to avoid that nationalization of this race that democrats have tried to tie him to as they re trying to connect him with the former president. arlette saenz for us in norfolk. thank you very much. here now to talk more about this race and especially the significance being attached to it by democrats for what it could foretell about next year s midterms, cnn political commentator, senior political commentator david axelrod. also with us cn
he said i don t think parents should tell teachers what they should teach. and there was a big backlash to that. and the youngkin campaign jumped op it. education s become a much larger issue because they ve sent they ve focused on it in the last few weeks. and yes, they ve done it in a way that raises cultural issues, as margaret mentioned, not just the issues that you raise but also transgender. there was an incident involving a transgender student that they ve raised as part of this campaign. so he is trying to invoke trump-like themes while behaving unlike trump in terms of tone and demeanor and staying away from trump. we ll see. i think republicans are going to be watching closely. you know, trump, i think one of the things that s so hilarious is like the youngkin campaign has like drones and radar up to make sure that trump doesn t