county. again, one of the things he was trying to do, he was trying to rewind the clock. he was trying to get, youngkin was, get republicans back closer to where they were in the suburbs before donald trump came along. again, he did not get them all the way back. look at this, mitt romney was only four points behind in loudoun county when he was running. youngkin didn t get them all the way back there, but he got close enough. again, if you supplement the surge trump vote he was able to hold on to and build on, that s sort of a new combination. we ve seen different candidates win virginia different ways in the past. here s one. youngkin didn t get the traditional kind of old school republican strength from the suburbs, but he got a little bit. then he supplemented it with strength they hadn t seen before, donald trump, in the rural parts of the state. that, in this case, is what adds up to this. wow. steve kornacki, we ll get to the other races in a little bit. but let s break down t
places like that, specifically during donald trump s presidency. this is how blue it got with donald trump as president. so youngkin was able to roll back the clock a little bit, take republicans back a little bit towards where they were in the suburban areas before donald trump came along. that alone would not have been enough for him to win statewide. we saw it in fairfax county, loudoun county as well. that alone would not have been enough to win this statewide for glenn youngkin. he also drove up massive numbers. you can talk about southwest virginia, south side virginia, the shenandoah valley, a lot of trump counties in here, places where donald trump, there was sort of a surge trump vote in 2020. trump did actually better than republicans typically to. i think it was a fair question coming into last night, could youngkin could youngkin lock in that same level of support. he actually exceeded it.