i wonder what the human toll is of these very public pleas now for griner, and if it s having an impact. nicole, i think it has to have an impact. just the nature of human psychology and politics is that if brittney s case is on television and in the media, they know that in the white house. there was also a letter that was sent to the white house a week or two ago, signed by dozens of groups representing core democratic constituencies who have an interest in griner s freedom. and there s no way the white house can ignore that. but this goes to some of the most fundamental philosophical questions, you know, the old adage about whether you would flip a switch to divert a train that s about to run somebody over, and the train goes in another direction and it might, you know, hit two other people. philosophically, what do you do to free this person who is in
rioters stormed the capitol one year earlier, president biden cast donald trump as holding a dagger at the throat of america, spreading lies that undermined core democratic values. a remarkable speech on a remarkable day, cnn s jasmine wright joins us live from washington. good morning. what do we know? reporter: that s right, christine. we can think of it as a political reset of sorts. really, president biden over the last few months has had a lot of highs, but also some lows. so really at the start of this year, it was one of, if not the strongest speeches that he s given since being in office for about a year, and it did something, as you said, he has been reluctant to do. it took on former president donald trump directly. and even though he did not say him by name, about 16 times he made references to the former president, the former defeated president, and i think it really is a strong look at president biden because he did spend a lot of time writing a lot of parts
than what you re looking at now, as you said, this was the scare of phil murphy s life here, apparently the murphy campaign, not even republicans in new jersey, thought this was going to be that competitive, he wins by 16 a year ago, maybe were murphy winds by a point and a half. quickly i think this story here, i was running the numbers. virginia was a high turnout election, you have ciattarelli getting about 66% of donald trump s vote total. a year ago. in murphy getting about 46% in run, an enormous democratic turnout drop off. as one of the big stories here. i think democratic dropoff, republican enthusiasm, because some of these areas, i mean like ocean county here, you have sky-high enthusiasm here, it s not just the ciattarelli got 68% of the vote here, the wrong number of votes that ciattarelli got out here, chris christie won this county it s one of the reasons chris county get erected governor back in 2002, he got more votes in this
republican candidate for senate in 2018, he ran statewide, openly flirted with all right talking, points removing the flag from virginia was quote, losing its identity, that was not glenn youngkin s campaign, glenn youngkin very much tried and successfully achieved having it both ways. he did stoke white politics for the republican base. the ad of the white mother who is the fact that he was upset that being taught tony morrison s beloved. but he did will not be alienating the trended toward democrats in the trump era, i think the appeal is best symbolized by this picture, of this person attending a glenn room can rally with a confederate flag. that nose would youngkin needs for him to hear when he talks about education. in the fact that youngkin can win well sort of half embracing donald trump, and also keeping an arms length. that clearly has the former president panicked about his
voters are angry, and they keep voting for change, and i think some people misread my nomination as being this desire to return to the old, but in fact, it was change relative to a trump represented. now biden is the president so and voters are angry, they want something that s different from that, and youngkin did a very good job of presenting himself as the outsider, who is ready to drain the swamp of richmond, with equal sort of credibility to trump doing so in d.c.. but the fact, was he was able to pay terry mcauliffe as the insider, i was getting to the last two weeks and they were all about the corporate donations that terry mcauliffe had taken an earlier campaign, i think as democrats think about where they position themselves, right now being anti establishment or at least being against the corruption, is a good position to take. not trying to revert to the consensus which is much of what people are reacting to, to alex s point, i think it