his proposals included in the build back better agenda. right, brian? i think that s the reality we have to understand. also i want to emphasize the fact that michelle wu in boston is a progressive candidate. you have progressive candidates winning down ballot across the country, and democrats need to pay attention to that. versus look to any type of friction that they want to create within the democratic party. look to what is possible with women of color, with progressive candidates down ballot who are fully tapped into the communities they want to lead, who are fully listening to the voters and who are fighting, again, tooth and nail. that enthusiasm that people see when folks like michelle wu are fighting to advance policies that they know are going to change their lives. that is what s critical here. making sure that the voters can see you and the sweat on your brow working day in and day out for them. because that is what s going to be critical to not only get voter enthusiasm, w
white house. they ve been so focused on making that happen they have forgotten that most americans don t even know what s in the bill. they know something about climate change is in there. i think they re beginning to figure out universal pre-k is in there. childcare. expansion of health care. hearing assistance for medicare. they need to start talking about what s in it and quit talking about who agrees with him and doesn t agree with him in the democratic party. all right. lawrence o donnell, your reaction thus far. as we look at the board in the studio i a quick note to our viewers, our characterization of the new jersey race has changed as it had to from too early to call to too close to call. so in that case we re covering two barn burners side by side here. lawrence, over to you. brian, there s always a risk of overinterpretation of governor s races and what they
outstanding. yeah and we ve been hovering at this position for a while, brian, just to see here 100,000 not much left. that can actually show you it will give some clarity here. the one biggest source of remaining votes here in virginia with youngkin leading by 96,000 votes, is in chester field county. this is big suburban county just south of richmond, you see rural youngkin is leading with 61% in. what they are waiting on in chester field county and it took a while to do this in 2020, is the absentee vote. which will be the most heavily democratic vote. there is about 56,000 absentee votes to be counted here, if mcauliffe got what biden guy in 2020, biden got 60% of the absentee votes, he probably will not an additional 11,000 votes out of chester field
causes. mike murphy veteran republican strategist co director for the center of political future at the university of southern california, in his spare time his cohost of the hats on tap podcast, good evening and welcome to all. peter baker, since your first rodeo this is not, perhaps we should begin this way, why could history have guided us as a predictor, that would make tonight somehow less surprising? well i think that is the important point to remember, brian. and i covered virginia politics or ten years before moving to the national desk, mike murphy, mike if you remember back in that senator race one that you need to know about is the off year governors elections tend to be contrarian, they tend to go against the national wave. if you go for the back the past 44 years there s only one example where governors race didn t go against the winner of
teleing hey, david. i can hear you but i m told our audience is struggling. you ve got a microphone problem. we re going to try to switch it out. is someone hang on. we can do this live. you ve got a good one now? i hope so. can you hear me now, brian? yes, i can. okay. that s great. then i ll continue. what i was going to say is everything in build back better polls really well, including how it s paid for. but i ve learned that selling one piece of legislation that simple is really hard. this has so many components it s going to take great skill to make sure everybody understands there s universal pre-k, there s childcare, there s elder care and how it s paid for. so yeah, i think it would help a little bit. but the big thing i think, brian, is the national environment ended up being really terrible tonight for democrats.