congresswoman ilhan omar about that as well as how she became target for house republicans and kevin mccarthy we are also keeping an eye o the breaking news in californi where there is major floodin in a weekend of extrem weather. new travel warnings from mexic after the disappearance of three women. plus this. drag queens are the marines of the queer movement. don t get it twisted and don t be distracted. register to vote so we can get these stunned queens out o office and put some smar people with real solutions int government rupaul ready for battle t fight back against the war o drag shows and trans americans across the country i will speak to former recal drag show contestant peppermin about all of that later on thi hour we start though with forme vice president mike pence. finally coming out of his shel a bit. and taking on the president he once served over january 6th which is something other potential gop rivals have ye done thus far. want to get right to nbc s ju
i am a transgender man do you really think that the girls in my high school woul feel comfortable sharing the restroom with me so, first of all, nico, thank you for, again, asking the question and being her tonight. and engaging in this important discussion what is most important is that we try very hard to accommodat students that is why i have said many many times that we just need extra bathrooms in schools we need gender neutral bathrooms. and so people can use th bathroom that they in fact are comfortable with what do you make of the governor s response? this run around a bit that h gave well i do think that gender neutral bathrooms are one wa to address this whole bathroom conversation but unfortunately the bathroom are not where this type of legislation is stopping. and i haven t had a chance t really review governor youngkin s, you know, full policies on trans policies but i am assuming that since
the republican glenn youngkin became the newly elected governor of virginia last night, flipping political control of a state thatjoe biden won by ten points just twelve months ago. youngkin s opponent was terry mcauliffe, a democrat with deep ties to the national party establishment. in august he was a shoe in. had virginia been the only shock of the night, that might have been the headline. but a second governors race, in newjersey, followed a similar pattern, suggesting the democrats have deep problems. youngkin won virginina with 50.7 percent of the vote, in a record turnout. and in newjersey the incumbent phil murphy, who won the 2017 election by fourteen points, was in deep deep trouble. however through the day it has
i ll be honest, my base has to turn out. if my base turns out, he s going to win, and i hope they turn out. i really want them to turn out. you see what trump s doing there too, trying to claim credit for the victory so he can call in the favor later. youngkin s came pain is in many ways a return to form, give deniability in the messaging you push so you can switch swing voters, without elevating your base who are worked up. what makes it scary is the political moment we are in because you cannot just pretend that trump s authoritarian machinations are not there. it looms over all of it. they raise the existential stakes of what should be a normal back and forth of political democracy, in which different coalitions of opposing ideologies compete for power, and it s not a sustainable political equilibrium. if you feel that in your gut, you re not wrong. one of the two competitive parties, we ve only got two, is