compare that to 2020. that s a drop of five points, mcauliffe versus biden. again, there s a large african-american population right here. if you re mcauliffe, you can probably afford statewide about five points of slippage give or taker from joe biden s 2020 number. remember, joe biden, 54, donald trump, 44. you could probably lose about five points and still potentially eke out a victory. if you re the mcauliffe campaign, this is right on the line of what you want to be seeing. you don t want to see any worse than this. you could potentially get by with getting 52% in brunswick county. i also believe, now, getting into northern virginia here, this is the city of manassas, and it looks like you ve got completed vote in manassas. again, northern virginia, core democratic area. and you see here, terry mcauliffe, 50 this is a ten-point margin. basically round it to 55/45. here you go, biden this is slippage now of a little bit more than six points.
the way to manassas on the press bus there. jim, what s the message romney and ryan are holding on to? well, we ve seen a lot of messages today from the romney/ryan ticket. we can now call it that starting this morning where mitt romney really threw down the gauntlet to the obama campaign and said this is not going to be about a personal attack in this campaign. it s going to be about the issues. and they started to get into some of those issues. paul ryan of course took the stage and talked about the need to cut the national debt in this country. and then fredricka some of that we saw at the second event in ashland, virginia which was very interesting, they started to sharpen their rhetoric on the obama campaign on the president. we saw paul ryan introduce mitt romney and say, talking about the economy, it doesn t have to be this way. we can do better. and then mitt romney got on stage and at one point basically warned the crowd, warned republicans that the attacks are goi
hit romney and his newly announced running mate aren t wasting time hitting the campaign trail. just a few hours after introducing wisconsin congressman paul ryan as his vice presidential pick, the presumptive republican ticket is making its case to voters in virginia. romney introduced paul ryan this morning as, quote, an intellecta you will leader of the republican party and a person who will help lead the country to, quote, widespread and shared prosperity and then ryan told his own story and shared his ideals. for the last 14 years i have proudly represented wisconsin in congress. there there i have focused on solving the problems that confront our country, turning ideas into action and action into solutions. i am committed in heart and mind to putting that experience to work in a romney administration. [ applause ] my dad died when with i was young. he was a good and decent man. there are few things he would say that have just always stuck with me. he d say, son, y