york daily news tomorrow, and it says, you know what you and the horse you rode in on. so he probably is rethinking that decision. april ryan, what do you have for us? from a high-level republican who texted me during the show, they said tim scott, jc watts and the late jack kemp, republicans are working to ground out the party on issues that most people can respect. they say that there is a civil war brewing inside the party, and they re saying that several meetings are being called tomorrow to prepare. so they re trying to fix this. they re trying to figure out what s going on, how to move forward. they re trying to bring it back in because it s gone too far, to include with the president and to push roy moore, this man yeah, he wasn t an acceptable candidate, but every ist pertains to roy moore. we heard what the secretary of state said on this air from alabama, saying that, well, they have to check. they want to check the absentee
issues and put them into some vicious television ads that were saturated throughout the state. and sure enough, the trump voters have responded, and it s almost like trump had appeared. in a political sense, forget morality or history or any values, was it smart for northam to come out for bringing down all the statues? no, it was not. i understand, as you said, the morality of it. and of course i m here in charlottesville. i get it. but from a political standpoint, that was not a wise move. he backed off of it. but of course he stuck with the original position, as politicians always are. yeah, let me bring in jc watts, my friend jc. thank you for this. i know you re from oklahoma, and that s your home and pride. looking at this virginia race, what do you make of this problem. the democratic side on an ethnic front where they basically say as we say in philly cut somebody from some promotional material, some leaflets. the african american running mate was dropped from his name
governor, the race is very close. northam and gillespie have been rung neck and neck for week news. five polls out give northam the edge, but indicate the race is still up for grabs. a poll by the new york times has northam lead big 3. christopher newport university shows a 6-point advantage. quinnipiac has northam on top by 9 while fox news shows the democrat lead big just 5 points. the very latest poll from monmouth university out just this morning shows a 2 point race. for more i m joined by the great larry sabato and former oklahoma republican congressman jc watts. larry, tell what s you think of this race overall, the color of it, the nastiness of it, what the cultural messages should be to the country so far on election eve. chris, it s not been a thing of beauty, that s for sure. first of all, there have been a lot of mistakes by both sides. and lately by the democrat.
ralph northam has not been nearly that aggressive in calling trump out. right. if you talk to democrats, that s just not his style. he wants to run as a pragmatist. but that runs the risk of failing to excite a lot of the base. that are looking to feed off of that about trump for example. michael, have you been involved in trying to suppress the minority vote for northam? absolutely not, i encourage everyone to vote. what i ve been involved with is raising the question about how the northam campaign and several of the unions sort of forgot to put the black candidate for lieutenant governor on their flyers in some parts of the state while they put his face on other parts of the state. that s the kind of political crap that happens a lot. and myself and j.c. watts want to call it out. in terms of suppressing the vote, nope, not at all. everybody needs to get up, go
should black people support him? send a message to northam loud and clear. we won t be thrown under the bus. decode the results tomorrow night. let s say gillespie pulls an upset. what would that tell the country? it would tell the country until republicans running in 2018 that they can do what gillespie did. hold trump at arm s length, that they re in a purple competitive state or a blue state, but adopt some of the trump issues. it will cut even in suburbs that normally vote liberal. i think northam is going to squeak it. i think you do too, larry. let s see what happens tomorrow night. i hope you re around. larry sabato, the great professor at the university of virginia. and former congressman jc watts, a great friend of our program. we re going to have all the results tomorrow on hardball at 7:00 eastern. and then our whole program is coming back at midnight for an hour. the assembly votes could tell us in virginia how the rest of the country is going to vote for congress i