board meeting and things like that. to me, that has galvanized and that has created such an anger and enthusiasm among the republicans that boy, oh boy, i think you re seeing it reflected in the polls. anita: yeah, we saw merrick garland, the attorney general really grilled on that on capitol hill last week. scott, what do you think about that? it does seem like education and parental involvement in schools has really become the central issue in this race. well, education has become the central issue in the case. i don t think my good friend guy s point, i think it misses the mark in the sense that may be part of it but the videos and advertisements that we have been getting in washington, d.c. i can quote and both sides spent money on it and the gap that youngkin covered in the last 4
to 6 weeks has been based on the education piece and whether parents ought to be involved or not, they pulled a clip or statement from terry mcawfully in their last debate and then ran that which in my opinion as a democrat took out of full context. that was a bill that allowed parents to weigh in on whether certain books could be read by their kids or not. terry s comment about wanting parents teachers who to do, i think that resonated with a lot of republican voters. you ll note that youngkin while he has been embraced by trump and early on embraced trump he s running from trump right now and so they closed the gap. it s a very close race but you see both sides out there campaigning hard because it s about get out the vote at this point. whoever does that better and i think there are a lot of democrats who are very concerned about this. whoever gets out the vote best on tuesday is going to win this very close race and i m not surprised it s close because of that education issue. anit
events today and all the miles putting on the bus may be paying off. likely voters show republican glenn youngkin leading democratic opponent terry mcauliffe by 8 points. 2% still undecided. that s a major movement from two weeks ago. and the latest washington postpoll puts youngkin one point behind mcauliffe but that s still well enough within margin of error. we are talking about the issues that are most important to virginians. lower taxes, the best jobs, the best schools, safe communities and this is why we are seeing independents literally double digit leads with independents because education matters to parents. alex: now yesterday his opponent s team had to issue an apology of sorts after they shared a photo from one of youngkin s events in charlottesville, depicted 5 people dressed as white supremacist. mcauliffe s team dedicated that these were youngkin supporters, they, indeed, they were not
what you just said. you mentioned donald trump. it does that terry mcauliffe has tried to paint glenn youngkin tied to donald trump but seems like voters are more interested in local issues like education. scott, what do you think of that? well, i think he s tied donald trump to youngkin because youngkin has embraced donald trump early on in public statement. he said the basis for him running was because of donald trump, quote, taught them. with youngkin he painted himself as a trump supporter and a trump candidate but he s just nicer, better looking and dresses better perhaps in khakis if you will. anita: all right, guys, let me get guy in there real quick. i want to switch topics. that s somewhat of a complement, i shouldn t have said that. i respect scott greatly but the numbers and enthusiasm and the excitement, look, they people, to quote an old movie years ago, people are mad as heck and they are tired of this.
a novel politician glenn youngkin, successful businessman. he s 8 points ahead. we can put that up on the screen if we have it. okay, and other polls have the race a little bit closer, but guy, let me ask you first for your take on what happened here with this race or what is happening with this race? so anita, i actually traced this lead in the polls that youngkin is experiencing back maybe a couple of weeks to the october 4th memo from the attorney general of the united states to the u.s. attorney s offices, the fbi, the criminal division where he said and i ve got the memo in front of me. i wouldn t check it because there s so much controversy and how law enforcement tools can be used to prosecute threats of violence and during these school