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>> if 1 in 4 voters said it was their top issue, and 53% said parents should be totally involved, which is the essence of the youngkin message, what is your early sense of what kind of night this is going to be? >> the early sense is let's see when the votes start coming in. i think the big question, let me see if i can call tup, let's take a look here. this will be the youngkin msnbc alf map. let's roll the clock back to 2020. democrats won the state by ten points last year. the strategy republicans have with the education issue, it's about the suburbs. let's zoom in on one of those suburbs. ...

The momentum has seem to shifted to the youngkin side. we'll have to wait to see what happens there. there's downward pressure on the mcauliffe campaign because of the gridlock happening in washington d.c. we're going to have to see. can he turn out his base, can he turn out folks in the liberal bastians in the commonwealth, hampton roads. if he can do that, this race is his. if he can't, youngkin is the winner. >> martha: that's what the youngkin camp is banking on, places like loudoun county, voters that are independents and even some democrats have been watching this education issue closely...

Candidates, senate candidates, gubernatorial candidates from the republican party across the country should be forcing this issue. >> sandra: it's such a good point because if this turns out to be the winning issue for youngkin there in virginia, you fast forward to the midterm elections in 2022 and you wonder just how big this issue becomes at a national level. final thought, dan? >> what's going on here with terry mcauliffe and that education issue is directly related to the reality that the teacher's unions are a primary part of the democratic base and there is no way a democratic candidate...

The left, show you the voting booth. they have ten voting stations set up where people are casting ballots. they say it has been a smooth process. 780 people so far came through this precinct and voted today, according to a loudoun county official. there's about 40,400 people that voted early. as an drew comes out, i am going to talk to one of the people that voted here. amy simone, a resident here more than 20 years. you told me a short time ago the issue driving you out here more than any other is the education issue. what specifically is concerning you. i know that's a big issue in loudoun ...

Feels, it feels like glenn youngkin is going to win this race and in the closing days he has had bigger crowds, more enthusiastic crowds, but then you get to the math, and things can change. we will see how the world turns tonight. >> bret: brit, that education issue really was a big turning point in the past few weeks. i just want to take you back to when former president obama was talking to crowds with mcauliffe about how he talked about some of those issues. take a listen. >> >> bret: we had that he basically said time we don't have time to be phony trumped up culture wars. it has moved th...