inevitable this was going to be a close race. it s an off year. that doesn t surprise me. look, this is a completely phony issue for glenn youngkin. and here s the proof of that. he spends almost $40,000 a year to send his son to georgetown prep, where toni morrison is required reading in certain courses. i mean, we re talking about the only african-american nobel laureate in literature. the idea you re going to be afraid of a book? i don t know what happened to the republican party. it used to be that we prided ourselves on standing up to dictators and now we re fighting to read a book, if you read a nobel prize-winning book? the irony is this is the ultimate cancel culture. they want to cancel a nobel prize laureate? that just happens to be african-american? it s all about race.
violence. this virginia race, why do you have to watch it? because they re fighting right now about teaching in schools. race, what you read. why? because this is what they believe works. it s not about education. this is a bigger play than that. and it s probably headed to your state. so we have a veteran of republican politics to tell you exactly what the play is here and what it means for left, right, and for the rare few who are still reasonable. next. [coins clinking in jar] you can get it if you really want it, by jimmy cliff [suitcase closing]
but what we see now is that the economy and jobs as well as education and schools have become the top issues in that race, and i think it s all just kind of falling back. this is going right into where glenn youngkin wants this race to be. so it s working for him there. at least it s making it very, very close. yes. now, what does that look like projected on it tot national scene? i think it looks like the following gets projected on the national scene. if we go to slide 4 here, which is the economy and joe biden, and what do we see? we see, look at this. look at how the approval rating on the economy traces so well with joe biden s overall approval rating. you see, as basically the economy, economic approval rating starts to fall back from june, then august, 52 to 46 to 42. look at the overall approval ratings. 53 to 48 to 43.
with special offers just for movers at xfinity.com/moving. the virginia race isn t really about education. of course education matters. but it s about the context. see, the important thing is to see how the issue s being framed. you re going to see this on all major issues. the issues will be obvious. it will be the economy. it will be education. it will be covid. but it s how. it s always about the how.