like so we don t give anybody the victory. we don t snatch your feet out of the jaws of victory, if you will. yeah. on the other side, you often don t feel that you have the facts on your side. you make the most of it. there s something in the audacity of a republican campaign that you know, it shouldn t be. it shouldn t be. thank you very much for your ongoing participation in the education of nicolle wallace and the psychology of democrats. thank you very much. it s not just virginia, there s a mayor s race in new york, a governor s race in new jersey, too. governor phil murphy who brought in president biden and former barack obama in the final days is hoping to be the first democrat re-elected in that state in four decades. we ll preview that race coming up.
the unfavorable number is 58%. so the youngkin folks are hoping to benefit from this and the mcauliffe folks are hoping to benefit from that. again, the favorite the approval, the favorable. other numbers, hopefully we can share them with you from the first look at the exit poll. steve, anything you re going to be looking for in this first round that you get around the issue set that for youngkin and a lot of the crowds and our correspondents, heidi przybyla and chris jansing have reporting youngkin s crowds are out there. they re not positive always of what critical race theory means but they re out there because of his promise to ban it. are you seeing anything or looking in the next couple hours at the issue set? we re going to look here in the exit poll, and i m actually just trying to see if we can get a headline on the result here. we re have some snazzy graphics for you with this in a minute. here we go, which of these five issues do you think is the most important issue f
i m cautiously optimistic. listen, we had really good turnout so far. but, you know, polls are still open. so if you re in virginia, if you re in new jersey, go and vote. we need you to go and vote. democracy is on the line. and we need that support for terry mcauliffe and the democrats running up and down the ballot. are you surprised that republicans took this real distortion of what critical race theory is, a theory taught in law schools, not in public elementary schools and turned it into such a thing for their voters? no, i m not surprised at all, nicole. listen, i m a black guy who grew up in south carolina. fair. you know? we know dog whistles when we hear them. but the sad part is you have some press following up with some of these same issues. i had an earlier interview
congress so i don t think so. we passed a massive rescue package and we re on the brink of drafting probably the most transformational legislation we have seen with the smallest majorities. so i think as soon as we deliver this, people will forget this time. the virginia election just happens to fall right in the midst of all this. but actually, when you think about it, nicolle, i m really proud of what the president has done. i m proud of this transformative agenda, and i m really proud of congress for working so hard to get this piece of legislation across the finish line. do you ever you know, in your non-message discipline moments, your non-all these programs mean real things to real people who are struggling at that brink of maybe desperation or poverty or despair, do you ever think that somebody would have been better than a process that dragged on this long or are the programs that important to people s lives that whatever the political fallout, sobeit? i don t think the
voter suppression laws that we re also fighting at the same time. thank you, senator. the one thing a lot of people don t know, at the end of the day, the dnc will probably have put$6 million in the coordinated campaign in virginia to fuel that ground operation for the coordinated campaign to make sure they could do the things that are necessary, to get that early vote to the polls. this is a first year really that virginia had this type of early vote and a souls to the polls operation. we were happy to partner with terry mcauliffe to make sure that happened. when we win tonight, it s probably going to be a lot because of the operation that we had there to get early votes done. that s what the american people want. they want the freedom and flexibility to go out and exercise their right. whenever they want to, instead of just on election day itself. but that s a really, really important part of the operation and we see republicans when they re doing these voter suppression laws, tryi