if they re not going to win it, have some fun. andy, thank you very much for that. i will see you tomorrow, my friend. and thanks to all of you for joining us, i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere, cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. glad you re with us, it is election day. there s a lot of news to get to. let s start with five things to know, tuesday, november 7 th. polls are open in virginia and par parts of kentucky. two governorships and abortion access measures. and donald trump brings his campaign bomb a campaign bombass to the wind stance. and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country needs to oversee security in the gaza strip for, quote, an indefinitely period of time after the ongoing war. this comes as the health ministry says 10,000 people have been killed in gaza. a man is dead after suffering a head injury in southern california. the medical examiner ruling this a homicide. wework has filed for bankruptcy after
trump. i mean, they are just so different in so many ways so i think right now that youngkin is well positioned. all he he just needs to he just needs to perform at an adequate level in the d.c. suburbs, richmond area, and norfolk suburbs. if he out if he does much better than gillespie did four years ago, he should be well positioned to win. i m not making any predictions. but he is he s well positioned. the energy, the enthusiasm is on his side and mcauliffe and the democrats are playing defense. congresswoman, as as a republican who doesn t like the former president, does this give you hope about the future of the republican party? i mean, for a lot of folks in your position, there hasn t been a lot to be hopeful for in terms of the power of the former president still looming large over the party. does someone like youngkin is that going to be a new model for republicans in swing swing states going forward? well, i certainly hope so and i think particularly with go
problem with in the trump years, which is deal with trump s toxicity in the suburbs. the population shifts in virginia have been largely up here. if you go back to 2004, run you back the last time a republican won. i will just show you this is the george bush win. notice, the red in the outer suburbs around washington, d.c. loudoun county, manassas, prince william county. george w. bush could do it down there. he did it around richmond as well but in the donald trump ages, republicans are toxic in the suburbs. glenn youngkin s got to run it up down here and somehow that s why he s been talking about schools and about parents choice cut into what is a huge democratic advantage there. in terms of timing, what can we expect to start seeing returns tomorrow? obviously, early votes, mail-in ballots could be a big factor. you are not going home early if that is the context of your question, anderson. i would expect a very long night. i say that because number one, you have a close race.
51% disapproval of president biden so what does that mean? it means republicans are energized. it means independents are up for grabs and it means democrats are discouraged so for all the blue in the big areas where people live in this state, that is why joe biden has had to do this in the final days of the campaign. he has brought in the president and vice president up here in the northern suburbs. the first lady, richmond suburbs. stacey abrams, african-american voters down in the southeastern corner of the state. they are nervous in a state, again, they won by ten points just a year ago. so the democrats are nervous. why? because youngkin does have a chance here, anderson. let me turn this off and come to it. how does he do it? no room for error. glenn youngkin, you mentioned trump. he has to get this trump base. see all this red out here? trump ran it up out here hugely. you go through these county, trump 71%. trump 71%. trump 73%. however, they are not as populated so glenn youngk
to the mcauliffe campaign. top leaders say a loss for mcauliffe would mean a dooms day scenario with political analysts saying this race could have major implications for next year s midterm. rich edson, what s going on. reporter: this is the richdale suburbs. stanburger won this district by a narrow margin in 2020, also back in 2018, so it s an evenly divided area west of richmond. mcauliffe is coming to the richmond suburbs, he s going to go to northern virginia later today. then he will you hit the southeastern corner of the state tomorrow. he s going to the democratic areas, trying to turn out the vote. a new washington post poll has the race essentially tied with education now sharing the list