sweeping the state capital behind me in richmond. fox is watching, close calls with the lieutenant governor, attorney general, i will get to that but glenn youngkin defeating terry mcauliffe, former democratic governor. let s go to the race, you can see 3 point margin, 50.7, 248.six. if you want to know where the republican playbook in november of next year lies it is in the state capitol binding, youngcan become the first republican going to be sworn in in more than 12 years, this is a significant when, several voters that played a role, youngconsidering while ac/dc blurred thunderstruck 25 miles west of dc image into the suburbs. a little bit of what he had to say at his victory speech
basically the strategy that democrats of adopted of calling every republican trump hasn t worked in 2021, failed in virginia, it will fail in 2022 unless they run on something. if you look at president biden s record, the things people showed up yesterday and said they were frustrated about, those things don t seem they are being addressed by this administration and aren t going away. that is going to go into the 2022 house races. things are looking a lot better for republicans and some moderate democrats in key races are really afraid based on what happened yesterday. in virginia we needed a perfect storm for republicans to win this state and it happened, biden s numbers, mcauliffe s lackluster campaign, youngcan brought back some anti-trump republicans and excited the pro trump base and created lightning in a bottle. this is a blue state in virginia that turned red because of perfect circumstances. is this a warning to democrats not just in virginia but across the nation that you
from democrat leaning areas yet to be counted but one to watch for sure. we will talk about this all morning long. some other elections to tell you about, in ohio, the trump endorsed candidate beating alex russo for the state s fifteenth district seat, replacing longtime republican who stepped down in may. in the state s eleventh district, democrat brenner, the seat remaining blue. democrat eric adams claiming victory in new york city s mayoral race defeating republican curtis sliwa. we are missing the beauty of our diversity. we put on one jersey in new york. adams, retired nypd s and
this was a seismic shift, a tsunami. it is a bellwether, from here we go to nevada and wisconsin and other states. it is a reminder of what works and what doesn t work which when virginians go to the gas pump and they are pumping their gas and paying more for gas than they have under donald trump it is a reminder that these are failed policies. let s bring in ron meyer, state senate candidate. you could imagine democrats across the country including president biden are thinking my gosh, we need to change our strategy. this is a harbinger for 2022, no doubt what happened last night will go into next year and shows terry mcauliffe s strategy of calling glenn youngkin donald trump for the past year hasn t paid off at all.