there? hey, victor, things running fairly smoothly so far here, increasing to 509 in prince william county. no major issues to report. as you can see behind me, voters have been trickling in steadily all day. some folks casting their ballots as we speak. we should note this part of northern virginia, critical for terry mcauliffe to draw turnout if he expects to beat glenn youngkin, this precinct turned out for him to elect him governor in 2013, and helped elect his successor ralph northam in 2017, and it went for joe biden pretty heavily in 2020 as well. we should note, it s a very small sample size. we shouldn t draw any major conclusions from it, but the majority of voters we have spoken to today tell us they are voting for glenn youngkin, the education and economy component having a big factor in their decision. listen to some of what they shared with us. the school information, all
joe biden won the state by ten. you had two kind of lopsided u.s. senate races in 2018, and 2020 in favor of democrats. so if there is significant erosion, even if the democrats, you end up winning, maybe that tells us something about the political environment. again, when you have a president who has, you know, negative approval rating, that s kind of the most important statistic in a lot of these races, particularly in kind of an off year this year, and midterm environment coming up next year. that, you know, causes trouble for the presidential party. kyle, hasn t it been interesting to see how glenn youngkin has navigating around the thorny topic of trump. he s basically said, i don t need outside help. i can win this on my own, but a often, we ve seen in the past, former president trump s ego doesn t tolerate that. this one seems to be working for both of them. i mean, if youngkin had wanted to do an in-person
races for governor are getting the most attention, especially in virginia. republican glenn young kin is running a much tighter than expected race against democratic terry mcauliffe, former governor of virginia. for democrats, it could be a bellwether for the 2022 midterm s s. and for republicans, it s a play book of campaigning around donald trump. a republican has not won a statewide election in virginia since 2009. over in new jersey, incumbent phil murphy may become the first democrat to win reelection in 40 years. like mcauliffe, has been trying to tie his gop rival to donald trump. let s start in virginia. cnn s sara murray is in the state capital of richmond, and boris sanchez is in wood burn a suburb. tell us what we re hearing from the candidates. we have seen them over the last 24 hours, driving home closing arguments, trying to make sure they turn out every single last one of their voters
youngkin as a candidate in virginia, people didn t know much about him. he did not have a decisive primary to take things about donald trump, and anti-donald trump or pro donald trump, and he is a businessman and he started to run as an establishment businessman, and so, issue on a silver platter from terry mcauliffe, and so he looked like somebody who things were not going so well, and i m disappointed in joe biden who promise med a lot of stuff, and he didn t deliver, and forming the circular firing squads, and looking at glenn youngkin, and a suburban dad, and terry mcauliffe looks like that, too, but looked at glenn youngkin, okay, so he could become, and he could become they wanted, one of those things was i want to be involved in my kids schools. and this is for suburban women
are they supposed to be excited about biden? are they supposed to be excited about terry mcauliffe? the guys were going to get infrastructure, they can t get anything done. youngkin is in the suburbs, doesn t have to win all the suburbs but has to cut in significantly to what has become dig democratic margins. glenn youngkin sistery mcauliffe is from the past and number two, think about schools. terry mcafl is the godfather of the modern day democratic party f.terry mcauliffe thinks that government should be between parents and their children, i want parents to make sure they understand that as their governor i m going to go work for them. i m going make sure that parents have a role in their kids education. one. things that frustrates democrats is they actually will tell you privately they think he s done a pretty good job. they think, you know, they disagree with him on some of the issues, hyping stuff like banning books and things likes that, but they will tell you under thei