trump said the other day quote glenn youngkin will do whatever we tell him to do. that s been a large part of mcauliffe s closing argument. he s enlisting democrats from across the country to help him make it. majority whip in south carolina congressman jim clyburn is campaigning for him in virginia, along with a host of virginia democrats and both president biden and vice president kamala harris, just last week alone. mcauliffe s schedule has him hitting the democratic heavy areas of the state, northern virginia s, d.c. suburbs, richmond, and then down in the southeast corner of the state in norfolk tomorrow. early in-person voting ended late last evening. there had been 1.1 million virginians who have cast their ballots. that s about 20% of all the outstanding virginia ballots in voters here. a good chunk of the electorate has already voted. that started in mid september. mcauliffe says that gives him an advantage, especially since the poll numbers were much better for mcauliffe ju
a decision. they could still come back and push for a third trial after d.c. on those charges. and, in fact, i won t be surprised if manafort pleads tomorrow if you actually see resolution to those outstanding virginia charges as well. it would be in the white house s interest, i think. and rudy giuliani was quoted this morning seeming to encourage manafort to take a plea for that reason, a no cooperation plea. to go back to one thing about this pardon, the president has been talking about it publicly, we don t know what giuliani has been talking about with manafort s attorneys. it s been going on for a year now. it s been reported back last fall that john dowd dangled a pardon with both manafort and michael flynn s attorneys. i have to think this has been on paul manafort s mind from the very beginning. otherwise his actions to go to trial in the first case when the evidence was so overwhelming and to push this last one over the brink, they just don t make any sense. maya, we ll fin