virginia gorp glen youngkin won on this issue and here's what he told jessie. >> what we saw from parentswas, that was felt by kids across the commonwealth of virginia but also across the nation for the shutdown in schools is translated into kids that are so far behind. >> jessica: jessie i'm going to go to you first. what else would you like to highlight fromle governor youngkin's interview with you. >> jesse: i thought i had a nice tie on. i thought he seemed very emotional about the issue and i've never had him on my show. i told dana yesterday that i thought he did not like me which was hard for me the to grapple with because i need to be liked by people like glen youngkin and he finally did the show and came on and was very, very passionate. we had him on because there was another story out of pennsylvania, they say these teachers aren't grooming kids and then they do this little -- i can't even describe it on television and we had a hard time doing it on prime time but they're' teaching kids about things like s and m, teaching teachers and students to define things like i can't say,

to the general election, you're going to see candidates try to do a straddle sort of like what glen youngkinnovember? >> makes david mccormick the most interesting candidate in pennsylvania. democrats now, you don't want mccormick to get out of here because he's been running as a trumpy candidate but gets to say, trump didn't like him. >> david mccormick is a compelling candidate for a lot of reasons. he's an exceptional person but the, you know, you're right. many of these republicans are going to have to walk that line, and they're going to have to do what glenn youngkin did, i like what trump did, his policies and his energy. but i'm my own person and i have my own ideas and that's why these incumbents fare so well in these endorsement battles because they have their own identity. >> kimberly, another thing we saw this week, very quietly, president biden debuted his, a new message of sorts, trying to not say the word trump but this maga crowd, and he tried to lump abortion rights and some of these other things in there. it tells me, the white house is looking for a new message here. >> i

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