>> reporter: glenn youngkin had no surge coming into nugent diminish virginia, he was campaigning with virginians for virginia, terry mcauliffe, stacy ms. barack obama, all these people that weren't actually from the commonwealth and to the broader point terry mcauliffe wanted to nationalize this race, he wanted his opponent to be donald trump. the reason we are sitting here with governor like youngcandidate is he focused on kitchen table issues, economy, crime, education that voters cared about. >> he actually said in his acceptance speech tonight on day one he was to start transforming