more data as the night goes on. this is sort of an early glimpse. take these with a gigantic grain of salt. it s kind of our initial look at the electorate taking shape both today at the polls and through the early voting and mail voting. we re actually trying to turn around the graphics on this, but i can tell you i think some interesting headline numbers, i ll write them out so you can see them, two key questions. a lot of the race had to do with first the national backdrop. joe biden s presidency, we have talked about there s this history in virginia gubernatorial elections where, remember, they always come the year after a presidential election, and almost always in modern times, the president has been a drag on his party in the virginia governor s race. the president s party has lost all but one modern virginia governors election. the first question is, what is joe biden s approval rating with the electorate today? the first look at this exit poll today gives biden a 43% approval
to point out here, this is a state that expanded access to the polls. they have 45 days of early voting in virginia. they never had that before. so this is an example you talk about voting access, this is an example of a state where democrats can t whine that somehow they have been denied their ability to vote by draconian voter suppression laws that were passed because they did just the opposite in virginia. so we ll see what the turnout ends up being. i predict it will be much better than it was in 2017. david, do you think there was any consideration to running a different kind of campaign? i hear what claire is saying about history. i worked in the bush white house has defied that lousy misterm history because it made the 2002 midterms about security, about homeland security after the deadly attacks of september 11th. was there an opportunity? might democrats look back and say we should have made this about homeland security after the last republican standard
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chairman, how are you doing? i m good. big night tonight. i m flashing back to 2009. i m looking at new jersey, i m looking at virginia and i m trying to figure out what the strategy coming out of this cycle in 2009 would how it sets me up for 2010. how do you look at this cycle regardless of the outcome, win or lose, because you have to work through both in your head, right? yep. if we win i do a, if we lose, i do b. how do you assess your strategy going into 2022 because as the national chairman, you re going to have a lot of campaigns under your foot to kind of push and shove and move in a certain direction with messaging, with support, get out the vote efforts, how are you seeing that strategy in light of the fact that republicans clearly think that they have the democrats number on the social issues and
every important program in someone s life in this country is the difference between thriving and perhaps sort of falling off the brink versus the perception, unfair, i will land on the side of it being totally unfair, that democrats are struggling to get through the president s agenda. yeah, look, i think for this election, virginia, we re in a unique situation because the local newspaper for a lot of suburban and big counties in virginia is the washington post. and they have seen a debate about a number, whether it s $3.5 or $1.75 or $1.9 or $2.5. i think there s a big job ahead of democrats once the bill gets passed and it s to do what the congresswoman is doing, talk about what s in this bill. people know the cost of this bill. they don t know what s in this bill yet. and the second thing i think we have to do, democrats have to do, is draw contrasts. then-vice president biden used to talk to then-president obama in the midst of trying to pass