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Education, on public safety. >> jeff shapiro, is there anything about the polling you've seen, do you think that virginia is -- are we going to find out if virginia has any chance of ever being a swing state again, that in this environment, if mcauliffe wins by five or more, that this sort of solidifies virginia as deep blue? >> i suspect that argument will be made. i've always thought virginia's shade of blue was more carolina blue than navy blue. the reason for that is every year in virginia, we have an election. and every election attracts a different electorate. you're going to see the fal...

Continues in congress and biden's poll numbers continue to drop, the battle between youngkin and mcauliffe appears to be tightening. a monmouth poll claims to have mcauliffe up, most of the polling in virginia seems to have the democrat up. most pollsters think their sample sizes are a bit too blue-heavy. our friends at the cook political report relate moved the race to a toss-up citing the souring national environment for democrats. last night in their debate mcauliffe try to distance himself from capitol hill chaos. joining us now, lead political columnist for "the virginia times dispatch," ...

>> not from what we saw last night. your first question on vaccinations, reconciling his opposition to mandatory covid jabs with mandatory jabs for measles, what have you, for public schoolchildren, he sputtered on that question. and then, if you want to see sort of a continuum, that this is clearly tied to this trump balancing act that he faces, one of those closing questions, who is he going to support for the 2024 presidential nomination for the republican party. first he ducked it, then he said, well, if it's trump i'll support him. so i think he certainly handed the democrats some talking...

Youngkin are vying for the same voters, there was nary a mention last night about the possibility of a government shutdown. with the democrats in charge of everything on the other side of the potomac, mcauliffe is clearly concerned that there will be less deniability if the government goes dark. but there are independent analysts here in virginia who believe a shutdown is pretty much a republican tactic and that these independent analysts believe that the voters will see that as such. >> feels like a bank shot to me with democrats in charge, technically in charge of the house, the senate, and ...