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The mcauliffe campaign is keeping on the campaign through virginia through this television ad. >> virginia, you have a lot of responsibility this year. not only are you choosing your next governor, but you're also making a statement about what direction we're headed in as a country. i know terry mcauliffe and nobody worked harder for their state and i watched terry stand strong on the values we care about. protecting every citizen's right to vote. fighting climate change and defending a woman's right to choose. >> the republican candidate for governor of virginia is focussing his closing messa...

Reading assignment my heart sunk. it was some of the most explicit material you can imagine. they passed bills requiring schools to notify parents when explicit content was assigned but governor mcauliffe vetoed it twice. he doesn't think parents should have a say. he said that. he shut us out. >> so, yeah. >> i mean, look, we -- "beloved"? i mean there's been a moved about it, the book is, you know, tony morrison is pulitzer prize winner. >> a nobel prize winner. >> this is a book about slavery. the truth is explicit. i mean, look, huckleberry finn, the n word is in there. i don't know what i...

Particularly much. and so what joe biden would like to have and what terry mcauliffe would like to have would be a more active and vibrant presence by donald trump as a boogeyman to get democrats out. it's a very close race. the relative skill of the campaigns at getting their people out and energizing them is going to decide the result, and donald trump is an asset for the democrats that they're not able to exploit as much as they would like. >> yeah. so let's go to the media market there. what's happening, right, john avlon? glenn youngkin releasing this new ad that features a virginia paren...

House could cut environmental regulation and maybe that would help. and it could but maybe for next winter. it's not going to happen because president biden ran on an aggressive climate agenda. listen, jake, no one said the energy transition would be easy. topping our politics lead -- president biden heads to arlington, virginia, in a few hours to stump for democrat terry mcauliffe as the neck and neck governor's race enters its final week. glen youngkin's campaign releases a new add targeting mcauliffe on engs. laura murphy had this story about a book her child brought home from school. >> ...

Gave her son, a high school senior at the time nightmares. she sought to have the book banned temporarily, and the book details atrocities slaves faced. mcauliffe is discounting this episode as a racist dog whistle looking to gin up support from the extreme elements of the party. youngkin says this is about is centering parental choice and not about race. >> up until now, parents haven't wanted to control curriculum, and dive into the nitty-gritty of the curriculum of their kids schools. this is a new phenomenon of being able to control all of this. >> the idea that "beloved" is the target now...