the party is trying to use this issue to boost voter enthusiasm. democrats, you know, facing head winds this fall. we all know the reasons why. but there s a real sense that this issue, this decision were to come down as expected now in june could really change the landscape. what s your sense of it? people you talked to, how big of an impact will this have come midterms? well, they re certainly hoping it will have a big impact come midterms. this is an emotional issue for many voters in the united states. and it s an issue that many voters use to decide who to vote for. they re called single issue voters. abortion is one of those issues that can get people out to the polls in november. and so, fundraising off of this, just trying to beat the drum and sounding the alarm about potential roll back of roe v.
he s a total wannabe donald trump. reporter: yunkin is testing how big the republican party s tent can be. forever trumpers, never trumpers, single-issue voters, libertarians, tea party folks. it s about bringing people together. reporter: he rarely mentions the former president by name, a point trump has noticed. the only guys that win are the guys that embrace the maga movement. reporter: the former president says you need to embrace him more, embrace the maga movement more. he knows exactly where i stand you didn t mention his name tonight. i m a virginia-first candidate. i m on the ballot, it s glenn yunkin running in virginia. reporter: he makes clear republicans, at least here, must chart a new course. the republican party has figured out one thing over the last 12 years. that s how to lose. reporter: the former private equity executive is investing millions of his own money into the campaign, introducing himself through tv ads as a former college basket
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subsided and they legislate against gun control, gun safety. how do you smoke them out? how do you get them to come out and face the music they should be facing today when you know they re all hiding. the president is mar-a-lago today, president of the united states. half a million or a million people came here to protest. he skipped town. seems like a metaphor, gun lobby gets out of town when people are excited and come back in town when the crowd is gone. they have a very sustained and systematic playbook and they know the script, which depends on fear and money. they have built this movement based on single-issue voters. that is, people who go to the polls and vote on one issue alone. the young people who are out there in the streets today, those powerfully eloquent speakers at rallies that you
we came up here for a short term goal which is to get something. something is better than nothing at the end of the session. it s complicated. there s a lot of additional amendments. it s emotional. we have 45 people from parkland here fighting for the same thing which is just fear free schools and to be safe. it s complicated but we re hopeful with what the governor told us today. that s great. across the board, i think everyone would agree school safety is a prioritpriority. what is the specific ask because one of the concerns is there s all this great energy and money being raised. i m looking at some of these parkland kid who is now have more instagram followers than the nra does. here s the catch. instagram followers don t count for votes. single issue voters, second amendment supporters all show up to vote and they don t want their guns touched. a single ask is very important here. what is it that you re asking the governor to do?