Watch dog group calling the ruling, quote, a smoke screen? s it way too early for this. Good morning, i m kasie hunt on this thursday, may 6. Welcome to way too early our top priority is delivering the news. With her role in jeopardy, congresswoman cheney is out with a new oped in the washington post where she must decide whether to accept or reject trump s crusade. Writing, quote, trump is seeking to unravel critical elements. Confidence in the role of elections and the rule of law. No other american president has ever done this. The republican party is at a turning point and must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the constitution. We must stand for conservative principals and stay away from the trump cult of personality. In our hearts, we are devoted to the american miracle and believe in a rule of law, prosperity and opportunity brought by low taxes and fiscally conservative policies. History is watching, our children is watching. We must be brave enough to
mike. i m in a backyard of a supporter s home in the rich honed suburbs, preparing to host terry mcauliffe where he ll also campaign with congresswoman abigail spam berger, this is her district. it s a close, tight district here, they re trying to turn out democrats from here and across the state. mcauliffe is in the northern art of the state close to the d.c. suburbs, that is manassas, virginia is. he ll come back down here and then head back up to northern virginia in a race that has become very tight. a recent washington post poll had this race essentially tied with education now sharing the list of top voter concerns along with the economy. the post poll also said in september education voters favored terry mcall cliff by 33 if percentage points, now glenn youngkin leads by 9, a subject that dominated the mcauliffe s conversation this morning on meet the press. he s got a don donald trump, betsy devos take money out of public schools, it them into private schools, tha
with heavy hitters from his party. the latest polling shows the race remains very tight, with youngkin taking a slight lead in a new fox poll. we have fox news coverage. rich edson is live in richmond, virginia work the latest on the with the latest on the mcauliffe campaign. we begin with alexandria hough live in virginia where youngkin will be holding a rally moments from now. alex? yeah, jon, this will be youngkin s fifth and final stop of the day. where we are right now is really in virginia s far southwest pocket. it is really as far as you can go. you can see the tennessee border practically from where we are right now. this is already a heavily republican region, but youngkin knows if they see higher than expected turnout here, that could help offset some of the potential losses he could see in other places. you mentioned that fox news poll. that new poll shows that among likely virginia voters, youngkin is 8 points ahead of his democratic opponent mcauliffe. all w
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 sin
both candidates with alexandria in fredericksburg and rich edson in virginia beach. rick, we ll start with you. what s the latest in this extremely close race? well, anita, the very latest is beer, wings and college football. there s an event at a sports bar. the governor just left, and terry mcauliffe with the local celebrities and politicians trying to get the vote out in the democratic area in the southeast corner of the state. they ll head up to richmond a democratic pocket and northern virginia trying to turn out voters. democrats have repeatedly trying to tie glenn youngkin to donald trump, and so we asked mcauliffe if he s making the race too much about the former president? well, well, well, please don t say that. he has had so much of a reason he s running is because of donald trump. he tried to play it both ways. i never said the reason i m running is because of joe biden or barack obama, i m running because this is what i want to do for virginians. earlier th