governor s race, and look at how ed gillespie lost, but he is much more competitive here, and less here, but if you are talking to the youngkin campaign, they believe in the central richmond suburbs and the southeastern richmond suburbs th that they can crack the trump curse. so this is where they have deep roots in the red states, and this is when it flipped to blue, so youngkin here with the building blocks here, and that is what is going to decide it. so as we count down to the first results in the battle to be the next governor of the commonwealth of virginia, and we will find out what the exit polls are resulting about the biden and the trump factors in the election. that is all ahead. stay with us. and now, putting you in control of your financing. at carvana, get personalized terms, browse for cars that fit your budget, then customize your down payment and monthly payment. and these aren t made-up numbers. it s what you ll really pay, right down to the penny.
it is the final hour of voting in virginia in a high-stakes election that could jolt american politics and shape the all-important battle of control of congress next year. welcome to cnn s coverage of election night in america. i m jake tapper and we are counting down the election of less than a hour when voting ends in virginia. it is pitting former governor terry mcauliffe against first-time candidate glenn youngkin, and it could go either way. mcauliffe has campaigned with biden and harris and obama and faced an unexpectedly tough fight in blue-leaning virginia, and youngkin has had support from trump, but he has tried to
at richmond where it plans to count ballots as they are ready in richmond, nearly 27,000 preelection ballots were cast. 6,000 by mail and 20,000 in person. we should note, typically, early votes largely favor democrats. but there in virginia, both candidates put an emphasis on early voting. all right. pamela brown, thank you so much. appreciate it. let s go to john king. he is at the magic wall right now. john, tell us what you are looking are for right now. pretty soon, we get to count the votes which is great. what are we looking for? this is the map of 2021. obviously, it l start to fill in soon. if you go back to the 2020 presidential map, a big blowout for joe biden. that is glenn youngkin s challenge. democrats have been trending stronger and stronger in virginia over the last 10 or 15 years. the last republican win was in 2009. this was the last race for governor in 2017 so what does glenn youngkin have to do? he has to run it up. this rural red trump republican base. but
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want to make sure that the covid pandemic is treated appropriately, apnd we follow te science as well as i trust the educators and the curriculum they have imposed. so i feel like we need to place the power with the educators who are trained as such. so you said ta that the politics have focused your vote? yes, i feel like the attack ads have refueled the approach, so i wanted to focus the votes on the focus of virginians. the education issue is crucial out here, and the handling of school safety and teacher safety is controversial here, and glenn youngkin has seized on the issues as well as teaching critical race theory which is not officially in the curriculum, but there are some