there s a reason. let me show you behind the numbers why this is important. what s great about mcauliffe s race is we have his 2013 race. he won that one, it was close, less than three points. his victories, margins in arlington county, fair faction, won by 22. alexandria won it by 49 points. let me show you what happened with president biden. won virginia by 10. arlington, another 14 points higher than what mcauliffe did in 13. nearly double in fair fax, and another 13 points higher in aleck sand dree ya. you see why presidential voters intensity in the northern virginia suburbs. let me show you this. here s the raw vote. this is what s amazing here. look at the raw total vote in 2013. there were 2.2 total million voters in the race. look at joe biden s number in 2020. just his number here in virginia was more than this number down
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happen across the sunbelt, really across the country, american suburbs are changing fast. republicans are seeing advantages they used to have there go away. we saw this electoral realignment play out again this month when republicans lost ground in the suburbs in both the statewide and local races, even in races where republicans won, they lost suburban counties in mississippi that they hadn t lost in decades. and in virginia, democrats took full control of the state legislature for the first time in a generation. not because the suburbs of northern virginia, they finally won the suburbs of richmond and norfolk and those places. in kentucky, matt bevin because he underperformed in places like outer cincinnati. and suburban shift, away from the gop, and the trump era is shaping up to be one of the defining story lines with this 2020 election. back with me now is leeann and mike and ruth.
positions on gay rights? i think it s largely trump. i think that the party has evolved generally on gay rights. i think that this is one of the democratic this is why post-trump future is a very interesting question. it s also the reason the democratic nominee makes a big difference. there are a lot of people who are in these suburbs who are uncomfortable with trump. but if you have a very left-leaning democratic nominee. if you have a warren or a sanders, they re not comfortable with trump but they don t want to lose their healthcare. they don t want to lose their suv. they don t want to wreck their 401(k). they don t want the economy to go to hell. you can scare them into at least staying home. you know, leanne, in virginia in 17, these republican, suburban women decided to participate in the democratic primary. now, in virginia, it s very easy. you don t have to re-register. and it made a huge difference. the more moderate won and i think we know i mean that was powered by f
trump and how much of this is positions on gay rights and some of these i think it is largely trump. i think the party has evolved generally on gay rights. i think that this is why the democratic, this is why post-trump future is a very interesting question and a reason why the democratic nominee makes a big difference. there are a lot of people who are in these suburbs who are uncomfortable with trump but if you have a very left-leaning nominee, warren or sanders, they are not comfortable with trump but they don t want to lose their health care or the suv or the health care, or the 401(k), or the economy to go to hell and you can square them in at least, scare them in at least staying home if there is a very left-leaning democratic nominee. and these suburban women have decided to participate and in virginia, it is very easy, and the more moderate, it made a huge difference and that was powered by republicans, former republicans in the northern
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