the campaign trail tomorrow with virginia gubernatorial candidate terry mcauliffe as top democrats are trying to flood the state where there s always been early voting with dire warnings. jeff zeleny is outfront. but here is the thing. we can t afford to be tired. reporter: former-president barack obama trying to wake up democrats eight days before voters in virginia and new jersey send an early signal about the direction of the country. there is a mood out there. we see it. there s a politics, a meanness, and division and conflict. of tribalism and and cynicism and and, you know, we could go down that path, but i tell you, that is the path to ruin. reporter: at weekend campaign rallies, obama sounding the alarm hopes of stopping a potential republican resurgence that could be a sign of backlash to president biden and the democratic agenda in congress. the virginia governor s race appears remarkably close with longtime democrat terry mcauliffe locked in a deadheat with repu
national republicans have done far worse than simply march along to mr. trump s beat. their defense of him is imbued with an ugliness, a meanness, and a willingness to attack and slander those who have shed blood for our country, who have dedicated their lives and careers to its defense and its security. they basically say there are those enabling the president s behavior. how do you feel about that? listen. there is a very, very small sliver of the republican party that are never trumpers and they still exist out there. you named a few of them. but if you look at the republican party and their support for donald trump, you haven t seen any kind of, you know, party base support for a president in my lifetime for a president like donald trump has right now with republicans. so this is a very small and unique group that doesn t agree with the president but calls themselves republicans. and i look at the whole picture here. if you re a democrat or republican and you vote