politics in the early days and internet. and it helped doomed the chances of getting nominations. the most recent gaffe happened last fall. democratic candidate terry mcauliffe said this in the virginia big debate. >> i'm not gonna let parents -- and take -- make their own decisions. stop the bill? i don't think parents should be telling schools with they should teach. >> mcauliffe was absolutely right. you can't have every individual parent controlling the veto overall public school curriculums. it doesn't work that way. curricular are produced by experts and concert with public input, democratic involvement supervision. that clip though, absolutely hurt mcauliffe. he ended up losing the governor's race to youngkin by a few points. tonight there's something that should be a way bigger gaffe and that. it comes from a politician also in the hotly contested senate race this year, in a triple state that joe biden won in