youngkin, i went to an asians for youngkin event. the republican party is desperate not to be a white tent party. they have long thought their message of economic conservative and social conservative could resonate with the latin s x community, and some could resonate with the asian community. i m telling you, if youngkin wins and can bring more asians and people of color into the mix, again, this is going to be the formula that republicans try to duplicate in 2022. likewise, democrats are going to really have to rethink how much trump and the existential despair of the gop is truly going to motivate voters in a midterm election. so having worked alongside a lot of democratic candidates, what do you think of that argument? there s also the corollary that biden and mcauliffe, according to the exit polls, are under water, unfavorable, that s not a great thing, and we check this for our coverage tonight. obama was under water in 2013, as was mcauliffe, kornacki
better job of defining what democrats have fought for and won and how they delivered for you, the voter. but then you have to crucify these republicans. embracing white nationalism, embracing the insurrectionists. they extended the pandemic, talking down vaccines, talking down masks, lying through their teeth, basically they re very comfortable running race campaigns now. if you can t beat these guys in 2022, we have a problem, but you have to be really tough and we have to get a little bit out of academic language and get nor guttural in terms of how we re talking both about what democrats are doing, and who republicans are screwing. then you mention new jersey and you widen out. we know why people are focused so much on virginia, but you have the governor s race in new jersey. you have new york city, which has a bunch of races that tend to favor highly democratic registration advantage, but you still have a big mayor s race there where you had kind of the former police officer who
democrats is historically speaking, the states rights appeal did work. the southern strategy did work for republicans. the sail thing is happening again right before our eyes. states rights sounds very reasonable. of course, states have rights. but the gop used states rights to sneak in all kinds of causes. first and foremost, the maintenance of jim crow, but then later, it expanded to fighting environmental regulations. and labor regulations. all of these things became part of states rights. and what the gop has found is that parents rights serve the same function. it is the new states rights. it s an umbrella term that sounds reasonable. of course, parents love their children. they should have a say in their education. that s why we have a pta, parent teacher conferences, school boards, school board meetings and elections. all these things parents can participate in. every teacher i have encountered has told me they wish parents would participate more in these things that have
possible or what is the this they have to study? you have look at swing voters behave differently this november from last november, who were they and why? turnout, were there variances in young african-american voters, in the latino vote, with asian voters, suburban voters. what did republicans do? were they able to get strong turnout despite trump not being on the ballot. you have to bake all that in. i think the environment for democrats will be better next year because i think hopefully the pandemic will be in the rear view mirror, biden and democrats should have accomplishments. republicans are vulerable if you run a smart campaign. trump almost won because his turnout, i think, beat expectations in 20. democratic turnout was historic in 18, but republicans also had strong turnout where they needed it. so to win swing congressional districts and senate races, you have to do both, particularly in an off year.
candidate equals trump. well, yeah. you couple look, you look at the national polling on biden. 71% of the country thinks that america is on the wrong track. 40% of the democratic party doesn t want to see joe biden add the top of the ticket in 2024. those are not good indicators for democrats. right? i think when it comes to republicans, one cannot let s remember, ari, joe biden didn t get i don t mean to be a rain cloud over the biden presidency, but joe biden did not get the nomination because he stoked the ardor of the democratic electorate. he became the nominee because he could coalesce the party and they thought he could beat trump. when trump is no longer on the ticket, do people come out to vote? do republicans feel the same necessity to come out and support the democrat. the anyone but trump strategy doesn t work when trump is not actually on the ticket. you might see some of that play out in virginia. the other thing i ll tell you from being in virginia and covering