trey: good evening and thank you for joining us i m trey gowdy this is a special edition of sunday night in america. ready or not here it comes. in less than one year americans will head to the polls to pick a president one third of th the senate and the whole house. the price it to say you have questions which we will try to answer throughout the course of our time together tonight starting with rich in new jersey. rich mueller from new jersey bussey tim scott has just withdrawn from the race for president. i m really disappointed about that but i wonder what his change in the landscape to make it like that he doesn t have a chance? v6 to quote senator scott himself the voters said no, not now. but that does not mean no not never. this is not a political season or historical cycle where in someone with tim scott demeanor is going to flourish. politics right now covet fame over substance. politicians make the news for what they wear or tweet or say covet not what they do
also remember it was young voters who are vital to democratic victories in the last two elections. and, to putting joe biden in the white house. they report 64% of young voters cast a ballot in 2020. up tempers and from previous presidential elections. and, before, that 11% more voters turned up in 2018 to give them across their blood-rate and control of the house in donald trump s final two years in office. the data isn t convincing enough, look at what s happening on the ground and one of the red estates in america today. check out this video from this past that was posted online by the group next-gen a merica showing young people lined, up waiting to vote in austin, texas. this was a day later on friday which was the last day of in person early voting in texas. that line of young foals hurt is doubling in just the days time. the question, before us though, what will this mean on tuesday night for the overall results? let s ask christina simpson
years earlier when they repealed the law in that state last year, the number of states recognizing gay marriage has more than doubled. finally this week, nearly 20 years after it scared if bejesus out of a big chunk of the country, hawaii finally got around to adding its name to the lest of states. 15 of them now. it felt almost like a routine and a ho hum event. another blue state aing knowledging the political change, which raises the next big question about gay marriage, in two decades, it went from being a fringe issue to virtually unanimous support in the democratic party in blue america. one blue state after another is legalizing it. what about republicans? what about red america? if marriage equality is going to become a true national reality the red estates will have to come archbishop too. is that going to start happening any time soon? here to talk about it, we have, a white house reporter robert