shelby. we have an incredible team of nbc news reporters coveraging every angle. steve is breaking it down for us at the big board. starting with you, following the senate primary there, where to things stand this morning? look at the poles to start. all of the action in the primary senate race has been on the republican side. it is a crowded primary. at this point, when you look at the poll, there is one candidate with a significant commanding lead, that is georgia football legend herschel walker. when you look at the recent polls, the closest competitor is 58% behind him. that is former commissioner, gary black. at this point, it seems this is herschel s race to lose. he will be the republican nominee, barring any major development. senator warnock has been focused on working in washington, d.c. he does not have a viable challenger. we did hear from him when he spoke at a fundraising gala and a big issue that we expect to play out as we head toward the general election ha
and the plotters, if you will and the voters of virginia and the voters of new jersey in essence said you know what? not a big deal. let s move on. also taking into consideration in virginia, many of the plotters laid out the plans for the armed insurrection. this was the first major quazi national test that s the most important issue in america today you have a republican party that s unveiled and unmasked itself as hostile to american democracy. they don t believe in the constitution and as that clip showed, they are willing to take up arms in larger numbers and the voters of virginia and new jersey in essence said yesterday no problem. it s okay. you get a pass. i don t know where it goes from here. there were no easy solutions, no easy answers and yes, you could look at joe biden s sagging approval ratings and the fact
trump and whether the president or expresident proves to be a bigger anchor on his party. biden s sagging approval ratings have fueled deep concern among democrats that their voters either out of weariness with last year s battle or disaffection with biden s performance may lack the enthusiasm to vote. let s bring in our panel. tonight, bill mcgurn columnist for the wall street journal. mara liasson national political correspondent for the national public radio and the washington post columnist marc thiessen. mara, this is close heading in. it really wasn t supposed to be close, glenn youngkin closed the gap. this on this election day, how much is this about biden and trump as politico suggests? we have seen races get more and more nationalized over time. certainly terry mcauliffe tried to make this race about trump, tying glenn youngkin to trump. and youngkin made sure that he kept a careful distance from trump without alienating trump s maga base.
georgia? i talk to a lot of republicans every day. i talk to people who are goldwater republicans, reagan republicans, bush republicans like myself. i voted for the president twice. i contributed to some campaigns. some people are mad about that and i get a few people that bless me out, but many others understand that i did my job, i followed the law, followed the constitution and they believe that s the honorable thing to do. brad raffensperger, it s an interesting book. folks will take a look. we ll be watching you on the campaign trail. appreciate you coming on and sharing your perspective with us, sir. thank you. integrity counts. when we come back, democrats are hoping to pass both the infrastructure and social spending bills on tuesday. it s likely to be too late for tuesday s elections. could it help lift the president s sagging approval ratings? the panel is next. ing bills on . it s likely to be too late [ ] did you know, you no longer need to visit a dermatologist to
the polling that i m seeing and everybody else is looking at, that is the beyond all issue in america today. for better or for worse, all of the sausage making, the back and forth on reconciliation, the infrastructure battles, they are not touching the oregon is known of the american voter on what they are most concerned about. it is covid. to the extent that there is a messaging war political war in the white house these days, i think the only thing that should be on the wall is the covid-19 stupid. because you see a direct correlation between president biden s rising approval rating, in the mid may, late may june period of this past summer, when it looked like we were getting back to normal. but as the delta summer happen, he started to go back down. i think that s fundamentally the dynamic that we have seen, and why we see the sagging approval ratings. yeah i like that as a kind of monarch awful theory here.