votes counted so far to see where there are still votes left. hudson county, where we just were, 80% reporting, phil murphy way ahead there. essex county, where newark is, 72% reporting, phil murphy has 72% of the vote, more votes to count there from democratic areas. just two counties with a significant part of republican votes left. that s somerset county, not too small, 82% reporting. jack ciattarelli with a four-point lead there, he might be able to keep the margin narrowish there, and then down here in cumberland county, where you see there is 79% counted now. not as many votes there, so chit r rell ciattarelli wants to chip away there, it might be hard there. let s talk about virginia, the state where we know who the winner is. cnn is projecting that glenn youngkin will be the next governor of virginia. a lot of focus has been on the
embrace our parents not ignore them. reporter: the president said today that for democrats to bounce back, they should pass his sweeping social spending plan because it will help struggling americans. when i asked him what he would say to congressional democrats about passing the plan he said simply, get it to my desk. norah. o donnell: ed o keefe, thank you. well, here now to discuss the takeaways from this election is cbs news chief washington correspondent major garrett. hi, there, major let s talk about virginia. how much was the republican glenn youngkin able to exploit concerns about education, cultural, social issues? a let me give you a couple of numbers to indicate how much virginia has moved in one calendar ear. last year, president biden carried suburban voters by eight percentage points. glenn youngkin carried by by 6. a 14-point swing in one year. president biden won independents by 19 point, glenn youngkin won them by four to five. social issues are important but
and let s talk about virginia. i m so caught up in virginia and i know you have done the big debates, you have dor it d for years and years and you will be handling our news now coverage on tuesday night which we re all excited about. let s talk about virginia, terry mccauliffe. he was well liked. maybe that is the problem. certainly being dragged down by joe biden s declining polls. and another poll went to 46-46, is this a slap? you bring up mccauliffe s experience. i don t know if it is as much of a coverage. they re not happy in general,
cincinnati is just north of the kentucky border. those flip to the democratic candidate. and the third, coal country which is where trump has that was where he ran up the score against hillary clinton. there were counties there. thirkts 30, 40, 50-point wins. and if you put those all it that s why beshear won. it s not just the urban areas and the suburbs, but if you slim the margin of victory in those rural districts, that spells trouble for 2020. let s talk about virginia. virginia has been trending blue for a number of years now. and now democrats solidifying control across the board. yeah, absolutely. took back the statehouse, the state senate. they made major gains in 2017 in the state house. if you look at where they made those gains if you re trying to create a full picture of what occurred, you saw major gains in the suburban areas. and that, to me is so indicative of this trump era overall where he s losing some of those key swing voters he was able to
legislation on guns. governor ralph northam this summer called a special session after the mass shooting, wanting the legislature to address certain things like expanded background checks, bump stocks, and the republicans felt like this was a ploy to set them up for electoral failure, and they ended that special session pretty quickly while referring all this legislation to a state crime commission to be studied. the democrats really tried to utilize that to their advantage and hammer away at that issue. so there are definitely going to be some gun legislation that passes and gets signed by the democratic governor next year. daniel, let s talk kentucky. bevin s loss, is it more about him being an unpopular governor or is it more about the state of kentucky making a shift? so, it s pretty much all about matt bevin being an unpopular governor. you know, when you re traveling the state, it is just kind of