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For virginia's governor's race, steph. >> record turnout means a lot of votes to count. what you see, steve kornacki. where do things stand now? >> here we go. poll average closes entering election day. average of all polls actually has glenn youngkin the republican ahead of terry mcauliffe. spells an extremely close race. in a state joe biden carried by ten points. double digits last year, the republican comes in today with a real chance of winning. a big change from a year ago. what will we watch as votes start to come in tonight? three things to point out to you quickly. first of all, take ...

>> reporter: well, steph, good to be with you on this election day. i am here in fairfax, there's really been a steady stream of voters here weighing in on this race. as you pointed out, we've already seen record turnout in early voting, and just to set the stage, this really is the center of the political universe for all of the reasons that you mapped out. it's going to tell us how president biden is doing. it's going to give us a snapshot of former president trump's staying power, and this is a dead heat. this is a state that mr. biden won by ten points. so it's extraordinary that it's just...

President biden, leader schumer, speaker pelosi and colleagues on the reconciliation bill and will continue to do so for the sake of the country, ours the house to vote and pat the bipartisan infrastructure bill. holding this bill hostage is not going to work in getting my support for the reconciliation bill. >> reporter: look, at some point all of that good faith negotiating, steph harks to turn into action, and voting. in terms of timing, we've heard consistently from democratic leadership including speaker pelosi this morning the rules committee will meet tomorrow. that's important, because...

Young african-american voters to please, go out and vote and explaining what is at stake here, steph. >> steve kornacki, what are chances we know results tonight? talk to us about early voting, mail-in voting when do the votes get counted in virginia? >> should know the wild card is in virginia is in the mail. ballot on election day, still can't count. add some's in friday. arrive end of week. not a big pool of votes. unless it's exceedingly narrow tonight we should know. one thing to point out, bit of a wild card. polls close at 7:00 eastern time. look up here at fairfax county. by far the la...

Telerally endorsed enthusiastically glenn youngkin for either the sixth or seventh or eighth time. depending how you read it, but it is the last piece of new information that some voters or potential voters are getting this morning. >> heidi, take us to virginia beach. critical swing area. what are people telling you? >> reporter: yes, steph. steve set me up nicely. overallnumbers in northern virginia but hearing virginia beach because it's the state's most populist city and actually flipped from trump to biden. it is a must-win for youngkin. we're here to kind of gauge which way this is going...