anthony gonzalez so the pressure is on for the house republicans who supported impeaching donald trump and the bipartisan commission to investigate the january 6 investigation. thanks you, ma am. today glenn youngkin will be sworn in as the first republican governor since 2009. he accepted former president trump s endorsement but he did not campaign with him. instead, youngkin focused on campaign on education and economic issues that appealed to voters out of the trump base. here is the question. can republicans repeat that strategy moving into the 2022 midterms. larry sabatto, director of the center por politics is with us. it is good to have you. let s just take that right off the bat. what is the potential for replicating what youngkin did and having it be successful? well, christi, there will be
check check off a legislative win. well, again, they ve got to raise president biden s approval ratings. the job approval of a president, it is a very good indicator of the general atmospherics of the campaign. but how is that done? i mean you ve been watching it. how is that done, larry, right now? first of all, you get some good luck, christi. i would think president biden hasn t had a whole lot of good luck recently, has he. the pandemic has to be tamed. either be tamed or tame itself or run out of steam. that is number one. and then they do, through the federal reserve and other means, have to find a way to tame inflation. and then you get to the legislation. would it have helped democrats if they ve been able to get the voting rights bills passed? of course. but they re not going to be able to do did, or so it appears today. and the other legislation, build back better program that is somewhere between $1.5 and
$2 trillion, well that is probably not going pass either. but maybe they could get several chunks of it passed. there are things they could do if they work together and they have almost all democrats in the house and 48 of 50 democrats in the senate. the problem for them is they need all 50 unless they could get a couple of moderate republicans like susan collins or lisa murkowski to go along and so far they have said no, no, no, no. larry, always appreciate hearing your perspective and your insight. thank you for being with us. thank you, christi. of course. a cyberattack takes aim at ukrainian government websites and the country said russia is to blame. the latest on growing tensions as eastern europe stands on the press a pis of war after the break.
eight battleground states we have identified, but he needs to go on and win also a blue state. so interesting to see that he is in pennsylvania today with mike pence doing an obamacare speech in the king of prussia, one of the suburbs of philadelphia. that would be one of the states donald trump has to win in order to get to that 270 threshold. i was talking to larry sabatto and he said the race has tightened up and it s because the fbi director. i think so, yeah. we re starting to see now, we ll have more data over the next day or so, carol, where we will actually likely see some tightening up. specifically in some battleground states where you had people on the edges. they weren t necessarily enamored by trump and they weren t enamored by hillary clinton. the question is will they company out and vote for donald trump, these folks on the fence, or will they perhaps not vote at all and perhaps if they were leaning towards hillary clinton?
bring wayward republicans home to trump. they haven t liked him, many of them. they have resisted voted for him. but now they focus on clinton and her problems. and they find him acceptable enough to vote for. larry sabatto, carrie johnson, thank you. one thing s for sure, ryan is backing the republican candidate at the ballot box. we ll tell you what he said. you pay your car insurance