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that s a big question and terry mcauliffe is not an unknown, started with the clintons, ran the party, has been the governor there, so he has that potential distinction as not a generic democrat and still struggling to your point the other side of this race, headline here, biden easily won virginia, why is mcauliffe struggling? experience works against him in a political environment that continues to favor outsiders. your view? yes, look, i think virginia has a long history of this. it s the first election, this weird off year, to be kind of a check, right, any time a president one party goes in, there s always this unhappiness with obama in 08 and the stimulus, they swerved the other way and trump they swerved the other. so there s this tradition of voters, these sort of less partisan swing voters deciding they want to give the other ....
Party a shot. that is what is hurting mcauliffe. can he run on a successful governorship and then wedging youngkin with trump and northern virginia and by telling the voters out state that s not trumpy enough for them can that work for him? i felt pretty good about that six weeks ago but then the numbers are really turning towards youngkin and i think this is going to be an important test case that will teach democrat ace lot for next. and do you think that democrats get anywhere raising the alarm about democracy in america or does that play as process even if that s not true? there s a real concern. politically play as process when people have kitchen table problems right now. look, i want to say yes, ari, but i m putting on my analyst hat here. we re raising the flag about that, bipartisan letter we ran yesterday. it s the most urgent issue. ....