also with us cnn political analyst and axios managing editor margaret talla. david, i have to say it s pretty stark to hear the vice president of the united states go to norfolk and say what happens here next week will largely determine what happens in 2022 and 2024. that s laying it it all out there. that s not playing coy. it really is. yeah, i hope someone told her that this was being videotaped because that tape is going to be played again and again and again next wednesday if this doesn t work out for terry mcauliffe. but you know, john, this is a very close election. it s become a turnout election. and the challenge for the incumbent party in every one of these kind of off off-year elections is how do you motivate your base. and that s what she was trying to do. she was trying to raise the stakes and get across to people that it is absolutely imperative. there are more democrats than republicans in virginia. now, a separate problem is youngkin is winning if you look at the was
those lies and now we face a poisoned country filled with outrage blinding our ability to achieve real strength. it has become increasingly obvious to me that as a country we must unplug from the mistruths we ve been fed. for his part the leading purveyor of those mistruths remained true to form. he put out a statement today referring to the 10 republicans, congressman kinzinger included, who voted to impeach him. it says 2 down, 8 to go. and that s all it says. perspective now from former congressman and former republican scott ridgel. he left the party after the insurrection saying he could not stand seeing his former colleagues hold on to the proven falsehood that the election was stolen. also with us, cnn political commentator and republican strategist scott jennings. scott jennings, to you. what does it say that someone like adam kinzinger, a military veteran, a lifelong conservative, has concluded he has no place in the house republican caucus?
for democrats. but i m just not sure it s going to be good for donald trump. in fact, it could have kind of a counterintuitive effect that it shows a different road map, that keeping a distance is a successful road map in certain states, and that would be complicated messaging for trump. so i think that s part of what s going on here. well, who s going to be the person who tells trump that he can t go places because he s not popular? that s a difficult message to deliver, one that he s not that s not the sort of thing he would take well. yeah, i think this is going to become complicated for republican candidates. he s great in primaries. and youngkin took advantage of that. but he s not great in general elections in competitive environments. david axelrod, margaret talev, thank you very much. just a few days left to go. now to the breaking news which can only raise tensions in one of the commonwealth s most densely populated areas and home to so many washington lawmakers, polic
i feel that he should still be treated the same and make sure he gets home as well as everybody else. lastly, charlene, cnn runs internationally. who knows who s watching right now. if you could speak directly to your brother, what would you say? mark, please just keep your head up high. we will do everything we can to get you home. i m working very hard and we re all working hard. so please have faith in our u.s. governments that we will get you home soon. and we re going to continue to help you, charlene and chris. thank you so much for your time, and blessings to you and to your brother out there. thank you. coming up, what does republican senator joni ernst have to say to her fellow republicans as the vote and election reform issue keeps being debated and discussed and as many keep pushing the big
texas democrats could be arrested when they return to the lonestar state. that s at least the new threat from texas republican governor greg abbott after a group of democratic lawmakers fled texas yesterday to deprive the legislature of a quorum so as to block republican legislators from passing a new voting law that contains additional restrictions. though we should note that some of the more notorious provisions of the texas law has been removed. the democrats are on capitol hill today meeting with democratic party leaders in the u.s. senate and trying to pressure president biden to do more to pass federal election reform legislation. but as cnn s sara murray reports for us now, this flight-and-fight effort is perhaps doomed to fail. reporter: as texas democrats make another dramatic attempt to fend off new voting restrictions in the lone star state. we are not going to buckle to the big lie in the state of texas. reporter: they re taking to capitol hill to press lawmakers and