democrats sweeping into campaign and brushing off parents concerns so is that a winning strategy? sandra: good question, charlie hurt standing by with some answers but first, covering this very tight race in fairfax, virginia, for us right now. this is an all-hands-on-deck situation especially for a democrat, this race was not supposed to get this close but as you mention, recent polls show these candidates tied right now. democrats terry mcauliffe have been putting some serious miles on their get out and vote tour buses. has caught up appealing to parents who have grown frustrated by what they see as government overreach and schools, meanwhile, brought in the democratic heavyweights to help voters. they have so far cast early ballots. despite some hesitancy that the candidate expressed over president biden s current approval rating, he will campaign for him tomorrow night. did some enrichment saturday.
the battle for virginia s governorship has become a referendum on the big government approach have the out of touch democrat left. no question on where you stand, the question is how many voters in the commonwealth of virginia feel the same way? once again, i will be my usual ambiguous self. this has turned into a nail-biter. this is now come down to a monmouth survey last week, 46% and the former governor, everyone knows who he is in the best he can do is tie with a republican who is making his first run for political office. there are also advantages, one is the tremendous enthusiasm gap between republicans and democrats, enthusiasm is 49% for republicans and 26% for democrats. he is also doing much better with independence, 49% support among independents,
democrats favor. political divisions come about even. the health care which may play to the democrats advantage, 76% care about it and what schools teach what really is an issue for independents and republicans, 73%. glenn youngkin is trying to make this an education an election about education. he seems to have succeeded in doing that so given the fact that those other issues split evenly among democrats and republicans good education really be the issue to turn this thing? i think it can be and i think it is. a lot of parents even in virginia which is very democrat rich who is outreach about what they ve seen in fairfax county, critical race theory, gender studies, this awful situation allowed in the county where this girl in ninth grade they shipped them to another school in the same thing happened
he wins, this is a state that has been trending democrat for years now and to have an upset again not by someone who is well-known with a record in virginia, making his first race to beat terry mcauliffe, the former incumbent governorate would be a massive earthquake politically for democrats. i think it will strengthen the spines of joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, something that the far left will have to explain and should have a real significant and very negative effect on joe biden s entire domestic agenda. john: it would be an upset victory because virginia which used to be read when purple and now it s pretty much solid blue so for a republican to come in would be big. let s take a look at the top issues were voters across the country and how that might play into what we see happen. extremely or very concerned about inflation, higher prices, 87%. that probably won t play into
worse. john: everything he seems to be is making his poll numbers worse, don t know about america at large, but that s a problem for these incumbents, he is a once removed incumbent but that s a problem for these people trying to seek reelection that they have to run on the democratic policy and agenda. new jersey is an interesting state although it s clearly a blue state when you look at national elections, tends to flip-flop republican and democrat when you look at governors. in fact, haven t reelected a democratic governor in decades in new jersey so murphy has to deal with that coming in and as i said, in the summer look like he was in such a strong position that people barely paid attention to this race but another thing to note is what has clearly made a difference at the national and state level in the polling that we ve all been looking at, 36% of independent voters in new jersey have a huge chunk that falls into that area the president is really facing some challenges with