joined dana milbank, columnist with the washington post, and jessica taylor, editor at the cook political reporter. great to have both of you with us. dan, let me start with you. in a column this week you argued democrats in congress let president biden down and terry mcauliffe paid the price. you write in part, quote, virginia voters decided not to return him for a nonconsecutive term as governor instead electing republican congressman youngkin who ran a trump inspired campaign of conspiracy theories and race baiting. it wasn t terribly close. what do you make of the election results as a whole not just virginia? and are republicans just better at the game of scaring voters to the polls than offering them solutions? i think that s the point. it s not that they re better at politics that are scaring. they re in an entirely different game here. i mean, could you imagine if the democrats were running a campaign based on race baiting,
joined by it s great to have both of you with us. let me start with you. in a column this week you argued democrats in congress let president biden down and terry mcauliffe paid the price. you write in part, quote, virginia voters decided not to return him for a nonconsecutive term as governor instead electing republican congressman youngkin who ran a trump inspired campaign of conspiracy theories and race baiting. it wasn t terribly close. what do you make of the election results as a whole not just virginia? and are republicans just better at the game of scaring voters to the polls than offering them solutions? i think that s the point. it s not that they re better at politics that are scaring. they re in an entirely different game here. i mean, could you imagine if the democrats were running a campaign based on race baiting, based on conspiracy theories and
numbers were killed in action. outrage against the anti-trump group, the lincoln project come after a stunt involving individuals posing, apparently, as white supremacist to try to associate themselves with the republican candidate for virginia governor glenn youngkin. we ve got reaction tonight from congressman youngkin and the democratic opponent. that is minutes away. plus the deadline has passed for new york city employees to get their first dose of the covid-19 vaccine leaving cops, firefighters, and a lot of other essential worker stays away from being placed on unpaid leave. we begin tonight with the potentially huge payout to illegal immigrants paid white house correspondent kevin corke is exploring how close is biden administration plan could be to reality and the massive blowback to the idea of this tonight. good evening, kevin. good evening, shannon. the u.s. government, our government, the one that gave americans anywhere between $62,400 in stimulus payments since the beg
talking about trotting out democrats to pose as white supremacists in an effort by the lincoln project to more or less smear or by association smear youngkin come of a candidate for the governor of state of virginia. it doesn t probably push independence closer to terry mcauliffe. the democrat in that race, and probably repels many of the people who already felt on the fence about this. as for the man that was apparently the target of the smear, here is glenn youngkin. this is so inconsistent with virginia values and virginians aren t going to stand for it. to have somebody do something like that in the middle of this campaign that is just absolutely vile. absolutely vile says mr. youngkin. as for the mccullough campaign, they deny what happened had anything to do with them. they said what happened today in charlottesville is disgusting and distasteful and the
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