formally launch their impeachment inquiry into president biden will they move now to hold his son in contempt. markets soaring, the dow reaches a new high. retail numbers in, beating expectations, stock furthers up again. how high can it do? i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner, this is cnn news news central. just moments ago we watched as rudy giuliani arrived at court in washington d.c. after saying he intends to take the stand in his defamation damages trial. in a move to counter emotional claims from two election workers who say his lies and conspiracy theories after the 2020 presidential election turned their lives upside down. over the past two days, the court heard gut wrenching testimony from former pole workers. they described how giuliani s lies spawned a flood of racist messages and even death threats that forced them to leave their jobs and home, cost them some friends and made them feel so unsafe they were afraid ton even use their own names. ka
His comments were aimed directly at president bill clinton, amid the Monica Lewinsky scandal. And if these comments prove anything, its that hypocrisy in politics is alive and well. That will wrap things up for me this hour. Kasie hunt is back with us for the 3 00. Kasie, i dont know what mike pence is thinking when he stares adoringly at the speak as the president speaks, but i wonder if any of that is going through his head . Reporter lets just say that some of the behavior that we have, has been alleged against this president , is not necessarily anything that the mike pence that i have covered for many years would have ever approved of. Katy, its nice to see you. You too. Iam kasie hunt in for ali velshi. Rick gates, former Trump Deputy Campaign manager, and manaforts longtime business partner, has just concluded his testimony and for the first time in the trial, were hearing about manaforts time with the Trump Campaign. Gates is cooperating with the special counsels office, after
small, population-dense northern virginia. also look at southwest virginia. here, this is a lot more of a rural area down here. population wise, it doesn t really compare to what you have in northern virginia. what s interesting here is this is the trump surge in virginia. it is the mirror image, the opposite of northern virginia. there had been a long term trend away from the democratic party in southwest virginia. that trend accelerated with donald trump. he actually did better here than republicans have been doing. now, check this out. donald trump won this region. it was a massive number historically for a republican. trump won southwest virginia by 45 points last year. last night, glenn youngkin won this region by 54 points. so that s the combination. kind of a one-two punch here. this had been a trade-off that had been dooming republicans in virginia for a long time nw. they d lost too many suburban voters where there is high population. they were adding new voters down here, but
we could just go county after county and pick rural counties here, southwest virginia. i m just showing you carroll county kind of at random here. look how much donald trump squeezed out of this in 2020. he got more than 80% of the vote. youngkin didn t just match what trump got here. he exceeded it. he takes republicans up to 83.5%. he rolled back some of the big democratic surge in the suburbs, and he supplemented it with improving on the trump surge in rural virginia. it goes a long way to explain that result. wow, surprising night. kyle, the messaging for terry mcauliffe, at best it was very messy. he focused on covid. he focused on trump. he focused on abortion. it sure sounds like voters cared about education and the economy. was that his fatal flaw? well, look, i think the biggest problem for terry mcauliffe and phil murphy to the extent that he underperformed from 2017 is that there s a democrat in the white house now as opposed to donald trump being in the white house. wha
talking about, it s the election day vote that s the most republican. so right now, we re getting the election day vote in. this is southwest virginia, the heart of the trump surge in virginia. and when this number comes down when everything gets factored in in a place like wythe county, you want to hit that trump number. we have brunswick county. this is interesting. we re getting into if you get into south side virginia, here you come west a little bit of the fall line, get into south side virginia, this is where there s a larger african-american population you can see in brunswick county, joe biden won this county by 15 points. again, getting a few of the same-day votes in here, but this is one of those tests we ll be looking at tonight. we talk about the importance of the black vote to democrats this is the kind of county if you re