is and how tight it is. republican candidate glenn youngkin telling cnn s dana bash that he will not be attending trump s tele town hall on monday. the president is doing a tele rally on monday. will you attend and will you welcome him to virginia? i haven t been involved in that. would you like to do that? i ll answer you in a second. i ve been out campaigning and i m not going to be engaged. we have more people helping us than you can possibly believe. this is about unity. he really does seem to want to distinguish himself as this kind of go it alone, and is that is there any way of telling whether that is impacting or helping him in what is now a very tight race? we will see when the numbers start coming in whether or not he can keep hold on the trump base, because a lot of times trump base voters tend to stay
focused on local virginia issues, speaking directly to virginia voters about things like the economy, education, taxes, focused on virginia. and he also has not called on top republican figures to come out and stump for him as well. that includes former president donald trump. take a listen to what youngkin said about a tele-rally that donald trump is planning on holding on monday and whether he plans to attend that event. [ no audio ] reporter: right now this is the critical day in this race. you re going to hear a lot from candidates who talk about the importance of early voting and why that matters is because early voting is critical in this state. this is the first year that there have been no-excuse early