should be just pushed to the side until it s actually real in the courts and you only deal with it then? such a great question. nerd out a little bit in terms of politics. this is whiee do a lot of research with voters. even the critical race theory bs that is made up in virginia by youngkin, if he wins tonight, people will assume that s going to sweep the republicans to every election victory next year. i hily doubt that. i think you ll find some states and candidates where that won t fly. here s what i know has to happen. if the build back better and infrastructure bill passes, and i think they will, most we have seen polling. nobody in america knows what s in it outside of people, so you have to educate them about what s in it, by the way, the billionaires and big companies paying for it, that s more popular than the popular stuff in the bill. story telling along the way, you have to make clear that the republicans opposed all of that. you have to make most voters su
This is an improvement. youngkin is running less than five points letter than trump. he increased the margin. that s a decent sign. they want to see this all over the place. they want to drive up that number. we have pretty much all the vote in when you see 95% tonight, at this point it means close to 100%. you can see here in kulpeper, pretty close to all the vote is in. provisions would come in. trump 59% here last time around. here is youngkin. he has jumped that number up 67% of the vote. if you are the youngkin campaign, that s what you want to see. you are talking about bath county, very small. again, one of the areas where trump did well for the republican party. here is youngkin running better. when i say two things are shaping up, one is the types of counties i m showing you right now, one of the questions coming into tonight was, would youngkin be able to hit and then build on the trump levels? we are starting to see a pattern, as you could see.
High profile, very charismatic mayor. long considered a rising star. she was considered as a potential running mate for president biden. earlier this year, she made a shock announcement that she would not seek re-election as atlanta s mayor at the end of the term. she is leaving that seat. there are 14 candidates on the ballot in atlanta tonight running. in order to win, a candidate needs to get 50% of the vote. while that s seems reasonable in most elections when you run agains mathematically impossible. if none of the 14 get to 50%, the top two performing candidates in atlanta will go on to a runoff election that will happen november 30th. polls have just closed in atlanta. at this point, we are still watching virginia. virginia, the polls closed an hour and one minute ago. nbc news projects that race as
Too close to call. 35% of the vote in right now. you see, the republican candidate, trump endorsed candidate at 54%. terry mcauliffe at 45%. we are continuing to watch those vote totals come in. i am here in our new york city studios with joy reed and nicolle wallace absorbing what we have seen over the course of the last hour. i feel like in the virginia governor s race i would rather be youngkin than mcauliffe. our metric here is that we are comparing mcauliffe to how joe biden did last year. joe biden did very well in virginia. he won by ten points. terry mcauliffe only needs to win by one vote. how are you feeling looking at this? does it strike you the same way? i m old enough to remember you are probably old enough to remember when it used to be that the absentee ballot was republican. it s so weird to me still to
Castro. i start with you david and something you said a couple hours ago. how are you feeling about the glass breaking in loudoun? not very good. that s the darkest part of the map. it s 150,000 votes now that mcauliffe is down. that margin will narrow. he is going to pick up a lot of votes in arlington, a lot of vote in fairfax. even if he dominates the rest of the vote, if it s mail vote, he still will be south of 20%. that s deeply concerning. i think that loudoun has been on a journey. when we won for the first time, it seemed historic. it s a long time. biden won it by 25 points. that s the thing that concerns me. that s a lot of raw vote. when you are down 150,000 votes, for the rest of the 58% of the