overreach. and youngkin has taken advantage of that, but it s not just a local issue anymore if, it s a national one. i think a big mistake mcauliffe made was he tried to nationalize this campaign. he made it all about national issues and trying to do so to motivate democratic voters. right now the national picture is really unfavorable for democrats, and youngkin has kept the focus on virginia issues. you don t see him bringing in national visioners the way mcauliffe did. youngkin s focused on himself, on virginia, so mcauliffe s strategy of trying to make this about a broader ideological argument seem like it may have backfired in the final stretch of the race. liver herb sarah west alicia: sarah westwood, thank you so much for joining us. eric: well or, president biden admits gas prices will not come
polls have them neck and neck. so let s bring in a political and investigative reporter for the washington examiner. sara, thank you so much for being here. before we get started, i d like to it up some recent fox news polling. first, on the top issues among registered voters. you can see inflation and higher prices at the top with 87ing tolled by political division and health care. but then comes what schools teach at 73% as a top issue. and then we can look at top issues for parents. 80% said what schools teach. how does this kind of concern play out in the virginia race and more broadly heading into the 22 midtermses? this issue is a huge winner for glenn youngkin. there was a recent cbs poll that found that among those voters rated schools and curriculum as their top issue motivating their vote. glenn youngkin led those voters by 20 points.
mcauliffe is in a really bad position when it comes to this issue not just because of the gaffe that he had a gubernatorial debate where he said he doesn t believe parents should be telling schools what to teach, but because his party is completely on the offensive when it comes to critical race theory and mask mandates in schools. democrats don t really have a satisfactory answer to parents who are concerned about those things, and republicans are have really been able to seize that opportunity and fill that gap. you know, if you talked to republicans earlier in the summer about how glenn youngkin s campaign was going, you heard complaints that there was not really animating it, and he was running strictly an establishment campaign focused on jobs and economic growth at a time when joe biden was still polling relatively well on those issues. the political backdrop has completely shifted since the summer. biden is underwater nationally, he s underwater in virginia, his
the train. this just seems like a logistical nightmare especially when you have this type of backup this 40, 50, 60 ships sitting like a parking lot out in the pacific. yeah, eric, yes, those are all ideas, but we have a major infrastructure problem in this country. the engineers report gave us, like, a d over the last few years on how well the u.s. infrastructure s working, whether it s ports or trains or next generation g, s or national gps or national electric grid. we ve been having these issues for a while. we ve had a need for a national infrastructure bank. we know why we have these issues logistically, but what s happened today is 100% driven by the pandemic, right? we re talking about literally trade ended, manufacturing ended, you know, the consumer was on the the sidelines and then all of a sudden, boom, everything opened up, and i think no one could be ready for it. we re not alone in this.
to deliver goods. it takes several days, in some cases 5-5 days, to unload 5-7 days to unload a ship. there s still a trucking shortage. as for the president s infrastructure and social spending bill, something else the white house is watching closely, riden optimistic about a deal at least publicly. joe manchin and kyrsten sinema continue to hold the cards here as the president has come down significantly to from his original $3.5 trillion social spending bill. the the key issues right now actively being negotiated, they include climate priorities, corporate tax hikes, also child tax credits. bottom line, do you think you will get a deal? i do think i ll get a deal. reporter: problems also continue at the southern border. a new caravan making its way knot to our border. north to our border. the president being criticized for saying he s been to the border. we cannot find any such trip in