and this just testifies to the problem republicans really have with trump still on the radar screen. youngkin in this race absent trump and given biden s standings would actually probably be doing pretty well. this whole campaign has been youngkin trying to avoid any attachment to trump. and mcauliffe has done a pretty good job of hanging trump around his neck. so this race is a really good example of how trump is problematic for the future of the party. because absent trump youngkin maybe would be running away with this race. but given trump s baggage and the anchors he puts on the candidates it s a problem and it s going to continue to be until trump s out of the picture. as you well know, the new polling out of fox news today has mcauliffe at 51, youngkin 46. the democrats are bringing in the big artillery. they re not fooling around here. they re flying in obama, pelosi,
abrams out of georgia, dr. jill biden will be there, joe biden has already visited. keisha lance bottoms, the mayor of atlanta. mark, explain to folks why a gubernatorial off-year election in the commonwealth of virginia is a high-stakes affair. well, this is going to make huge news, brian. whichever way it goes. people are going to say this is a harbinger of what s going to be for 2022. and it s interesting to see that mcauliffe is pulling in all the democrats and youngkin is running away from trump. and one of the things that poll shows which i think is interesting is that democrats despite difficulty right now in congress with the president and with the congress are still ten points more popular than republicans are in virginia. so it s a democratic-leaning state right now. and if mcauliffe can take advantage of that, bring in the troops, galvanize the democrats in the state, who are still fairly pretty positive about biden, so that s the game for
so that happened last night. supporters of paren glenn youngkin also called the insurrection a peaceful protest. that s what we remember from 1-6, correct? a reminder that american flags were used as weapons on january 6th to assault police officers. for his part the republican candidate for governor in the commonwealth of virginia issued a statement calling it weird and wrong to pledge allegiance to a flag connected with january 6th. still with us are don calloway and mark mckinnon. hey, mark, i want to get your reaction. the candidates stayed away from this rally for the republican ticket in virginia. donald trump calls in to the rally and they pull the stunt with the flag, and we all remember what flags and flagpoles were used for on this day. does this go into the unforced error category? sure, it does, brian.
mcauliffe. but at the end of the day it doesn t matter what the only thing that s going to matter is who wins because if mcauliffe wins it s going to be a big win for biden. and if youngkin wins it s going to be a big win for trump. by the way, to our viewers who might wonder if don calloway has entered the witness protection program, he s having some wi-fi issues and we re trying to get a stronger signal out of him so he can hear us and vice versa. oh, don, there you are. thank goodness. we were worried about you. i want to play for you an exchange between our friend andrea mitchell and terry mcauliffe. we re going to talk about its significance on the other side. now, if i were running the show here, i d get everybody in a room what do you want joe biden to do? let s get everybody in a room. lock the door. what do you need? what do you need? and let s get this thing done. so don, explain to folks watching who might wonder, okay, so you re running for governor of virgini
within the administration are certainly coming across him because he s a very substantial democratic fund-raiser in addition to being a democratic elected official. t-mac is a unique dude. by just think it s incumbent upon me to say that youngkin is a republican. his sxheshlz, if you re here in the dmv area, clearly never say that word, as well as the young man running for a.g. but i believe in transparency in politics. so i figured i d put it out there. there you have it. that s why we re so happy to have you back. don calloway, mark mckinnon, you re both friends of this broadcast. thank you for staying up with us. coming up, a rare unanimous decision about a booster shot. and another big decision is on the way from the feds. dr. vin gupta is taking our questions. he s standing by. we ll be right back with him. lm