or not youngkin wins or loses tonight? well, i think regardless of whether he wins or loses, if he is able to make it extremely close, i think it s going to show a blueprint for certainly the midterms and other statewide races that are coming up because, again, i go back to the idea that this is a unifying theme for parents. right? children and how their children are educated twhearnd learning in school. everyone wants to make sure they are going to be set up for success in life. i think when you look at someone like youngkinen. he did a great job speaking to parents. speaking to independents while also maintaining, you know, the base of his party where, on the other hand, you saw terry mcauliffe who just really looked like he was focusing only on talking about trump and appeasing the unions and appeasing his base and he never reached out to independents and parents. ian a passion of yours throughout this whole period and i m sure the fact that it s become very competitive is somet
is that youngkin seemed to be doing very well in the rural areas but not quite as well as trump did, yeah, 11 months ago. but in the suburbs, he was doing that much better than trump, you get it? you know, fewer people here, more people here, which seemed to portend as to why youngkin is making it a battle here in virginia tonight. i would just keep an eye on that. we will see how the percentages come in. then in these suburbs, again, martha mentioned chesterfield here. let s see what happens here in montgomery. and little to the south pulaksi county as well. just see how this comes in now and see whether or not the rural area if you are off by a point or two, and southwestern virginia but you make up a point or two in places like loudoun county, well, it s more than awash. have you done the work that your campaign set tout do. so that will be the key for his campaign tonight. martha: yeah. youngkin campaign set tout win
they felt they ve got a good attorney general, good lieutenant governor on the ballot. you could see some of that string throughout the night here. just down to virginia beach, we haven t seen for some time with my young youngkin republicans thought that youngkin spent a lt of his time and a lot of votes out because by population of ranked 2 out of 33 and counties and cities but youngkin at 58%. so far for the youngkin campaign, that would be pretty decent now. now in the southwest, i just look, it is rule virginia, not a ton of votes down there but you want to see how these voters are doing in places like washington county. over here in scott county. i will go back 11 months ago and look what donald trump was doing, 83.6 over here in washington county, 75.8, my favorite, right, 83.34 trump and you come back to current days
one we had today that said it was the number one issue what we have learned today is at least for in the polling we did today, it turns out not to be number one. it s up there number one is the economy. which is good news for youngkin as well because he rates better on the handling of the economy on the issue of the economy than does terry mcauliffe. i might add to what chris was saying about trump, as an issue in this campaign, it s as a national matter, republicans looking at virginia tonight are going to be looking to see how this candidate about did in trying to deal with trump who has been an elephant in the corner of the room here because terry mcauliffe made his campaign against youngkin very much about trump calling him an acolyte trump. claiming falsely youngkin was closing out his event with trump. which never did happen. youngkin did not campaign with trump although trump did enforce him.
the question arises is this the issue mcauliffe used. he obviously thought best issue. he pounded mercilessly. if young wins or comes close to winning in what is now as we all now a blue state that may be a blueprint for republicans going forward on how to deal with trump and it wills also be interesting to look down southwest corner of virginia where trump won overwhelmingly those counties down there. youngkin will need those votes. he will neat the unthesists. by staying away from trump. he loses them. that will be telling as well. a lot to catch here a man himself a potential candidate but for most now an issue. martha: that s going to be one of the big questions tonight, i think, in terms of the analysis at the end of the game whether or not glenn youngkin was able to drive out those voters in the southwest part of virginia to the same extent that president trump was able to do it. but, you know, with regard to joe biden, chris, i thought this