the house and senate, and you know, you decide whether you want to blame the moderates or progressives or both. but it looked terrible, it was terrible, it sent a message to democrats that election promises were not being delivered and therefore it wasn t that important to vote. and boy, having gone through precincts as well as all the city and county results, i could see it right there. republicans had sky-high turnout. democrats at best, middling. lower in many black areas. tiny for the college communities where young people had voted in large numbers last year in the presidential contest. so it s a combination of that, plus the issues that came up in virginia, like parental rights in the schools. larry, i mean, it s just amazing to think that one year ago, things were so different at that state, right? absolutely. but that reminds us, it s a year
it goes on clear and dries quickly. no mess. just the soothing vicks vapor for the whole family. introducing new vicks vapostick. 50 past the hour. i m going to highlight some of the historic firsts from last night s election. starting in boston where voters there elected michelle wu to be the first woman of color to be the city s mayor. in virginia a republican is the first woman and first person of color. lieutenant governor in the state. at the local level, new york and boston both made history with their first ever muslim city councillors. heidi, you re in virginia for us. turnout was supposed to help democrats. what happened to the core groups
can tweet, they can talk on social media. but one day a year, you get to vote, the people have spoken. it s why protecting and preserving voting rights is so important. that wraps up this hour. i m stephanie ruhle. thank you for watching. stick around all day. jose diaz-balart picks up breaking news coverage right now. good morning. it s 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. at this hour, we continue to follow all of the election results. votes are still being tallied in the new jersey governor s race. unexpectedly locked in a dead heat. this after republican businessman glenn youngkin was elected to become virginia s next governor, in a state president biden won by ten points just a year ago. also this morning, a historic step in the fight against the pandemic. for the first time, kids ages 5 to 11 are getting their first dose of the covid vaccine. we ll talk to a pediatrician about the significance of this
virginia, state that donald trump lost by ten points, the republican here, i m showing arappahannock for some reason. here s the statewide, youngkin gets over the top, wins this thing statewide, wins the governorship of virginia. a couple of different ways of looking at this, jose. one is we said yesterday, let s look at a couple of bellwethers here, in the hampton roads area of virginia beach, largest city soft virginia. this is a place there s a republican history in virginia beach, but in 2020, joe biden won it. he beat donald trump by 5.5 points here. this is one the youngkin campaign wanted to win back. they won it back, won it back solidly, an eight-point margin for glenn youngkin there. you look at chesapeake, the city of chesapeake. another big one next door. similar story. biden had flipped it in 2020. now youngkin wins it back. you can see down here, these are two sort of close to bellwether cities in the state. and what youngkin did, he won them, and he basically reversed
depending, are we talking about the city of trenton, somewhere else in mercer? probably going to be a democratic vote as well there. another one i can tell you we re waiting on, there s probably a couple of dozen precincts in essex county, newark to newark area here, this is a core democratic county. a couple of dozen precincts have not reported their election day vote in essex, either. again, i expect whatever comes in from there. and you re talking thousands of votes, you know, 10, 20,000, somewhere probably in that range. that would be heavily democratic, as well. so where we can identify what i m just describing to you, you see paths for murphy to pad this lead right now. we can t identify similar paths, similar sources of, you know, 10, 20,000 vote gains for ciattarelli. but again, i just caution, there is overall a lack of clarity here. so, that clouds it a little bit. and steve, talk to us about virginia. a big surprise there, right? there it is. you say new jersey, the repu