a virginia where the virginia promise comes alive for everyone that calls this virginia home.plause] together, together, we will change the trajectory of this commonwealth. [applause] and, friends, we are going to start that transformation on day one. there is no time to waste. our kids can't wait. we work in real people time, not government time. so on day one, we are going to work. we're going to restore excellence in our schools. we will invest the largest education budget in the history of the commonwealth. we're going to invest in teachers, new facilities, special education. we are going to introduce choice within our public school system. how about that? choice within the public school system. we're going to start with charter schools and going to make a down payment and close the gap on giving parents an opportunity to select where their kids go to school. friends, we are going to embrace our parents, not ignore them. [applause] we're going to press forward with a curriculum that includes listening to parents' input. a curriculum that allows our children to run as fast

james and hopes for a virginia that soars, a virginia that never settles, a virginia where the virginia promise comes alive for everyone that calls this a virginia home. who together, we will change what the trajectory trajectory of this commonwealth. we are going to start that transformation on day one. [applause] there is no time to wait. our kids can't wait, we work in real people time, not government time. [applause] so on day one we are going to work, we are going to restore excellence in our schools. [applause] we will invest the largest education budget the history of the commonwealth. we will invest in teachers, new facilities, special education. we are going to introduce choice within our public school system. [applause] how about that, choice within the public school system. we are going to start with 20 charter schools, and we will make it down payment and close the gap on giving parents an opportunity to select where their kids go to school. pete we will embrace our parents, not ignore them. [applause] we are going to press forward with the curriculum that includes listening

virginia >> let's go to virginia for second. we have a call to make for a second right now, while we have calls that glenn youngkin will be the governor, we now have a call for the lieutenant governor of virginia, the republican, sears will become the lieutenant governor of the commonwealth of virginia, just over that point for half a second. in virginia it's the same situation, we had very heavy day of voting, very heavy turnout across the, stay generally. the day of voting is what decided what happened in terms of how glenn youngkin and sears have won this thing. still very much a contest for control of the state legislature in virginia. right now it's looking like it's still about 50/50, democrats may hold on to control the legislature. >> it's very close on that front, we can actually show you, here you go, here is the lieutenant governor result for jinah, and i think it jumps right out of, you again, this is lieutenant governor results, this is the governor result they're tracking almost perfectly here. this is one of those

he won virginia.nn youngkin, congratulations. >> sean: they still have to count -- it's 80% of the votes. it's 53-46. youngkin is maintaining the strong lead throughout the night. i'll be honest, joe concha, i thought the fox poll was an outlier poll. i might be proven wrong. i looked at the internals. i said it's an eight point race. this doesn't fit with every other poll i'm reading. if they're right and i'm wrong, i'll apologize. >> the fox poll a week ago had youngkin winning by this margin, eight points. looks like terry mcauliffe is running out of runway. we're witness ago political earthquake tonight. straight out of the an andres fault. and the lincoln project endorsed terry mcauliffe. they lost again. those scumbags who concocted a white nationalist hoax and glenn youngkin helped seal mcauliffe's faith. it's delicious. you can go burn your money in the street before donating to those clowns. in virginia, as you mentioned, mcauliffe tried to run against donald trumping instead of youngkin. he

virginia. no surprise youngkin hit the hot button issue of education once again. >> this place where the virginia promise comes alive. the children dream the biggest dreams and all they have to do is go get it. that's the virginia where parents are fundamentally involved in their children's education. >> last night as part of his closing argument democrat terry mccauliffe went negative and did not tell the truth. >> with all that going on, glenn youngkin is closing his event with donald trump here in virginia. >> early voting hit a record high in virginia. more than 1.1 million ballots cost and the most expensive governor's race in the commonwealth of virginia, more than $115 million spent. this hour glenn youngkin is greeting supporters in chantilly, virginia. >> sandra: he will join us in just a bit. mike kicking things off for us. >> bill: as a back drop, what do you watch at home tonight when the election returns come in starting at 7:00 eastern? this is loudon county, the most talked about

we'll change it in virginia.rest of the country come next year. >> you and glenn youngkin have made quality education your top issue. as i told glenn youngkin this is really remarkable that republicans are turning the table on the democrats, it is about time from where i sit. we litigated against these groups, landmark legal foundation to get school choice constitutionalized if you will, i always wondered why the republican party did not take it up as an issue, in particular with mine orbities -- minorities who are stuck in the schools. you know, it does -- it not lost on me that terry mccauliffe's kids went to a very expensive private school, and barack obama kids as well. and he is running for governor, and obama comes in to the state, he does not know anything about. heba trashes parents who are standing up saying we want our kids taught real stuff, not radical ideology, what do you say that barack obama into terry mccauliffe. >> your children have choices, when it comes to education. how aboutuc letting the r

this is blackburg, virginia. that's where you find virginia tech.hese areas right now and try to figure out, you know, with the democratic vote how it's going? it's very early here. mcauliffe only a couple hundred votes and youngkin at 565. a ways to go, still. >> martha: bill, take a luge at richmond again? >> bill: richmond city not to be confused with richmond county, okay? richmond county is over in this area here. we are early in the night for that county. expect youngkin to do well. this is richmond city it has been a strong area for democrats for quite a long time now. but there is no data just yet in the county that ranks 9 out of 133 counties. >> bret: it's interesting to watch where you think the biggest determining factor is here, bill. where this entire race comes down to. is it how well mcauliffe does in northern virginia or is it how well youngkin does in the southern part of the state? >> bill: that's a great question here. i think based on our voter analysis. what i can say early on, bret, is that youngkin seemed to be doing very wel

have been virginia is for voters. >> all, virginia.e won this thing. >> republican glenn youngkin won the governors race early wednesday. he is the first republican to win statewide office in virginia in 12 years. the 54-year-old defeated democrat terry mcauliffe. the two had been debating heavily for the past two months. mcauliffe compared him to president trump. youngkin one despite president biden and kamala harris campaigning for mcculloch. -- mccauliffe. >> youngkin campaigned on immediately improving schools and lowering taxes. he opposes teaching critical race theory, and was vocal about being against covid mask and vaccine mandates. >> the challenge of overcoming a culture where the state overwhelms self empowerment is all too common. for too long, we've been exact -- expected to shelve our dreams, to settle for low expectations. we will not be a commonwealth of low expectations, we will be a commonwealth of high expectations. >> voters saw the economy at the top issue, followed by the coronavirus pandemic, a coding -- accordin

senator from virginia, former virginia governor.sure to have you with us tonight. thanks for being here. >> thank you, rachel. it's another exciting night in virginia. >> it's always an exciting night in virginia. the country is always watching in these off year elections because virginia sort of stands alone, alongside new jersey, in terms of having one of the big statewide races. you are at mcauliffe headquarters and watching these things come in as we do. how confident are you that your colleague, mr. mcauliffe, will pull this out tonight? it looks like it's going to be very, very close if he does. >> it's going to be close. i felt very good about the fact that we got our early vote up to 1.2 million votes beforehand. that's probably going to break 60/40 for terry. that's one of the things expanding voting rights that could be in jeopardy if his opponent is successful. i point out to our viewers, we report kind of strangely in virginia. last year, when i won the state, ran ahead of president biden, won by over 500,000 votes, it w

virginia, listen to me carefully.ortions will no longer be available here in the commonwealth of virginia. for 50 years the supreme court has protected roe v. wade. now it is the trump supreme court, 6-3. they are going to eliminate it. you saw what happened in texas. you know they're going to do it in mississippi. glenn youngkin, we do not want your antiabortion rhetoric and laws here in virginia. >> to many democrats' disappointment, recent polling shows abortion is not high on the list of key issues for virginia, less than 10%. instead, education has jumped nine points in a month with republicans hammering on critical race theory. joining me to talk more about this is nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla. larry sabatow from the university of virginia center of politics. heidi, what have voters told you about what's become the key issue in this race, education? >> chris, if you're talking about youngkin voters, it's literally the first thing they bring up. traversing this main strip here in virginia beach, which is

ibly19 almost like joe manchin in west virginia is waiting to see how it plays out in virginia or ist a goofy analysis but talking about the budget gimmicks today, seems quite exasperated about what the progressives are trying to pull in the spending bill is youngcan is about to take the stage. >> mitch blue things up but also given his past history on this he wants to get the hard infrastructure bill passed and then see what he does on the other bill. i think democrats were very unhappy with what he did and how he did it and the timing he made his announcement. ibly19 is glenn youngcan, the final push. he's going to be taking the stage any moment as we will go to it perhaps in the next couple minutes. is doing that dancing thing, let's watch it. we told him not to dance but he gets a huge crowd, 3500 people there. now it is up to 5000 according to our friends on the grounds but who is a better dancer at this point? terry mcauliffe or glenn youngcan? maybe they will be on dancing with the stars but the energy and emotion clearly with glenn youngin. driving through northern virginia e

a virginia where the virginia promise comes alive for everyone that calls this virginia home.plause] together, together, we will change the trajectory of this commonwealth. [applause] and, friends, we are going to start that transformation on day one. there is no time to waste. our kids can't wait. we work in real people time, not government time. so on day one, we are going to work. we're going to restore excellence in our schools. we will invest the largest education budget in the history of the commonwealth. we're going to invest in teachers, new facilities, special education. we are going to introduce choice within our public school system. how about that? choice within the public school system. we're going to start with charter schools and going to make a down payment and close the gap on giving parents an opportunity to select where their kids go to school. friends, we are going to embrace our parents, not ignore them. [applause] we're going to press forward with a curriculum that includes listening to parents' input. a curriculum that allows our children to run as fast

virginia, central virginia, and alienate the suburbs.d man. his last few ads were about ms-13 and potentially racially incendiary turning off people in the northern virginia suburbs. so the challenge for ed gil gill gillespie's successor is how do you get these people while not alienating these people. >> this is 2017. >> this is 2017. >> 61% of the vote to 38% for the republican, and you come back here and margins matter. every vote matters. margins matter in these counties. so glenn youngkin we talked earlier, he's not going to win all of the suburbs, but he's more competitive in the suburbs. >> he has been as a candidate more agile. he has been as a candidate more deft. he has been able to get these people while not alienating the sub suburbanites in northern virginia and then in the virginia beach area. in fact, it's early yet, but he is competing very, very well in this virginia beach sbuburbs. >> he did not want trump to come to virginia, they had a foul relationship. glenn youngkin did not want trump to come to virginia. trump has

eastern time poll closing in virginia. we will begin to get our first results, the vote count steve keeps talking about, of the noeth. until then, stay put because "the beat" starts right now. >> we have been watching and we will be watching you. thank you so much. >> thank you, my friend. >> absolutely. this is "the beat." i'm ari melber. you can hear the music. it is election night. steve kornacki is at the big board right now, as mentioned, tracking all of the results as we get them. exit polls and all of the voting. there are races in over 30 states tonight. there's battling for local office, special election, da, mayor, and a race for governor in two states. new jersey where polls close at 8:00 p.m., and governor murphy is trying it become the first democratic governor to win re-election in over 40 years and then of course, virginia, which may carry many political implications across the country, not just in that state, as terry mcauliffe and glenn youngkin battle it out. polls close there within the hour. now, it is

virginia gave america a resounding message that we've got a new virginia. what a difference a day makes. and i would just also add, laura, that it is our lieutenant governor. >> laura: sorry i misspoke. >> that's all right. winston spears and i say that because four years ago to lieutenant governor and i want to give a shout-out to winston and gone i can't tell late her. too soon to tell but i can tell you -- >> laura: go ahead. >> i was just going to say, i'm super proud of the campaign that our candidates ran but i also want to say to your question, the legal support that we had, both from volunteers and from lawyers around the commonwealth of virginia, we put together something that has never, ever been done in the commonwealth of virginia. thousands of volunteers and hundreds of lawyers. and we also had something that's never happened in virginia, and that is an election that started on september 17th. that was really the beginning of our election day. and election day didn't end until tonight at 7:00 p.m. so we had 45 days of an election day, and the m

it is about the citizens of virginia, including black citizens of virginia, they have lost connection them. democrat party em-- embraces but celebrates and promotes it. when we come back glenn youngkin. [ sneeze ] are you ok? oh, it's just a cold. if you have high blood pressure, a cold is not just a cold. unlike other cold medicines, coricidin provides powerful cold relief without raising your blood pressure be there for life's best moments with coricidin. now in sugar free liquid. mark: welcome back america, honor to have glenn youngkin on the program. republican candidate for governor of virginia, glenn youngkin, a question, why did you decide to run for governor? you were doing fine in private sector, you have never run for public office in your life, terry mccauliffe has spent most of his life as a career politician. >> i want to thank you for letting me join you, i am a fan. summer before last in 2020, i was busy coleading carlyle, it was my dream job . but i fell virginia was reading in the wrong direct, republican party in virginia failed to win a statewide election since 2009

wittman: well, thank you, virginia. what a great day today from the outcome of the races in virginia yesterday. i want to point my colleagues, representative morgan griffith, representative bob good, representative ben cline, all part of an exciting evening yesterday. very historic. yesterday sent a message, not just across the commonwealth of virginia but across the nation that it's parents that matter, that it's parents that should be in charge of their children's destiny and school systems. that it's about small businesses and empowering them to make sure they continue to build this economic engine that we know right now has been stifled. we know, too, that yesterday was about empowering communities to work with police departments, to make sure they have the resources necessary to make our communities safer. yesterday was historic, too. we have the first black female elected to statewide office in our new lieutenant governor. we have the first latino elected to statewide state office, jason. and we have a new majorit

that soars, virginia that never settles, i virginia where the virginia promise comes alive for everyonethis virginia home. together, together, we will change the trajectory of this commonwealth. [cheers and applause] and, friends, we are going to start that transformation on day one! [cheers and applause] there is no time to waste. our kids can't wait. we work in real people time, not government time! [cheers and applause] and so on day one, we are going to work. we are going to restore excellence in our schools. we will invest the largest education budget in the history of the commonwealth. we are going to invest in teachers, new facilities, special education. we are going to introduce choice within our public school system. how about that? choice. within the public school system. we are going to start with 20 charter schools and we are going to make a down payment and close the gap on giving parents an opportunity to select where their kids go to school. friends! we are going to embrace our parents, not ignore them. we are going to press forward with a curriculum that includes listeni

youngkin decided he was going to run a virginia campaign focusing on virginia issues and then mcauliffe made this crazy comment in the debate that he didn't want parents to be involved in schools. that began to eat him up and then the school system -- the loudoun county school system turned out that they had actually lied to the parents about a girl who was raped in the girls room by a guy in a dress and doctor was transferred to a different school without telling them about his problems and he attacked another girl in a different school. so people felt that the whole system was lying to them, and i think brilliantly, the youngkin team had an ad up less than 12 hours after mcauliffe made this mistake and they had been pounding away education in the last poll is the number one issue in virginia, more than the economy, and both of those, frankly, hurt mcauliffe. i think you're going to have -- as you put it pretty well, this is the first beyond biden election, the outcome occurs the way we think it will, for governor or lieutenant governor or attorney general end assembly, this is going t

you in virginia duke.have problems in our school boards, in our schools, stand up for us, virginia. let me tell you virginia will stand up for them tomorrow. that is what we are going to do. [cheers and applause] [chanting: usa, usa, usa! >> friends, do you know what is at stake? we view the future of the commonwealth and the future of the country will be decided tomorrow. our nation's history is how commonwealth history. every nation's future was going to be determined by the present. how we vote tomorrow will make such a statement, such a statement for families around this great country to have hope, to recognize that yes, the values that we hold dear, the values that underpin this country are still alive and well. we can put them into action tomorrow! [cheers and applause] so here we go. here we go tomorrow, folks. what we need to do tomorrow show up and vote. we need to show up and vote. because nothing happens unless we fully engage. and then, when we fully engage, let me tell you what will happen tom

most people in virginia, over half of the people in northern virginia.they're doing fine. there is no job you can take for $15 an hour. they are all paying more because people will stay home instead of working for $15 an hour. so the money, the message, and the momentum was unyoungkin's side. bill hemmer did a great job on this board. i think he would be hard pressed to find a single place where glenn youngkin didn't improve for the republican party in every county and municipality. >> bill: you are right about that. youngkin's speech at 1:30 last night talked about building 20 new charter schools and talked about going into the public schools and giving school choice. i don't know if he can get it done. you have the legislature and house side too, won that too by a small margin in virginia. do you think the results in virginia were more about youngkin and his message or more about joe biden and how he has mismanaged issue after issue for the past 10 months? >> well, bill, i think it's both. obviously glenn youngkin was a wonderful contrast to terry mcca

virginia, in 16 oh eight. virginia as a colony and then as a state, as a commonwealth. virginia has killed more of its prisoners than any other state in the country over its long history. but just this year, earlier this year, they decided they're never going to do that again. they abolished the death penalty. in the past couple of years, virginia also passed new legal protections for voting rights. leading the nations in some ways. in terms of protection of voting rights. the past couple of years virginia also raise teacher salaries. in the past couple years virginia also expanded for any punitive, for little kids listing. believe it or not, in the past couple of years, virginia also passed a package of small ball but very popular, very enforceable, gun reforms. stuff like requiring a background check for gun sales everywhere, not just for the sales that happened at gun stores. then you also, within the last couple years, provided new protections in law for abortion rights, in the state. and for women to be a

he lost 520,000 votes in virginia. you look at northern virginia and you see where youngkin is campaigning. he is campaigning in northern virginia. in loudoun county. he's getting the big crowds and the places where donald trump lost by more than half a million votes. >> harris: and that's why ask why. you can look at the past it only serves you to learn from it. you've to show up to today's world. be five and the education problem across party lines. it hits home with parents. their reaction to that education stuff and all of those issues peered the dod's actions and how the youngkin campaign reacted t. >> harris: i wondered about this. we were wondering about the ten points at biden's won. in loudoun county, he won by 15. it gets worse when you look at where the republican candidate was last night. >> bret: and he's been there a lot. he's been in northern virginia a lot. fairfax county's another one where a lot of people he's been campaigning there. and if it holds, northampton county and prince edward county, that h

now terry's closing pitch to the people of virginia, there are too manyoo white teachers in virginia schools.bl that's the problem. listen. >> with got to work hard to diversify our teacher base. 50% of our students or students of color buried 80% of the teachers are white. >> sean: forget the dream, i guess, of a call upon society. -- color-blind society. other than having too many white teachers, terry seems to think virginia schools are perfect even though he sent forth his kids, 4 out of 5, to private school. here with reaction, a brand-new book out today, amazon.com, hannity.com, a bookstores ever were, it's called "beyond biden, rebuilding the america we love," it's everywhere that books are sold. fox news can be your, former speaker of the house newt gingrich. you know, if things go well tomorrow in the commonwealth of virginia, i would argue if youngkin wins, he's going tonewt join us tonight, that will be the equivalent of you taking that congress after 40 years in exile.ig that would be a big deal. but it would also be the beginning of what your book title is, beyond biden.

the turnout has been huge in virginia. >> energized especially in the republican and south part of virginia, outperforming trump's numbers and a lot of those counties that were deep red. >> i am just looking at this, guys. i've been looking at the vote difference here. you saw it, right, you saw a shift. only started this hit we were well over 100,000 in favor of youngkin over mcauliffe. i just picked up again that means that votes are coming in so if you give me a minute here i'll just go back to the three main counties and we will see whether or not there's changes during the course of this particular report here. youngkin dropped a couple of points here. still outperforming what he expected to do in virginia beac city. this is 2017. just for comparison sake and that went to the democrats. biden, he took it from trump by about five points in 2021. that is where we are in virgini beach city. just back to chesterfield, whil at got you guys he has got a lead, real votes 10,481. still hanging onto that 50-50 percent margin there in chesterfield. really, if this holds up, it's going to be a si

todd: let's bring in george allen, former governor of virginia and virginia senator. once to follow up on something ron said. how much of a response the last 10 months of the biden dumpster fire was this win by glenn youngkin? >> the policies are a part of it. on the campaign trail, have you been to a grocery store or gas station lately? the skyrocketing prices for gasoline are being felt. one of his first acts on the first day was to shutdown the keystone pipeline, that lets russia have a gas pipeline into germany, begging saudi arabia to increase oil production. in oklahoma, north dakota increased production at all of this is unnecessary. when they say if they pass that bill, what is that going to do? for gas prices? it will only increase them and increase electricity bills. what happens in washington, even the crisis on the border, in afghanistan, terrible disapproval ratings of president biden but glenn, glenn youngkin, talking about the matter to virginians. by reducing taxes among groceries and reducing other taxes, mcauliffe is on the side of raising taxes. a k

let's look at virginia right now. this is also very interesting in terms of the national trends, in terms of the overall story. you can see glenn youngkin there. we had projected as the winner of that race by about 2 points. a lot of focus has been on the suburbs surrounding washington, d.c. and richmond, virginia. and, yes, glenn youngkin did well there. he held his own. take a look at loudoun county there. this is a county that joe biden won by more than 20 points. you can see terry mcauliffe's edge was just 11 points. so, yes, glenn youngkin was able to make inroads in the suburbs, but if you want to know where glenn youngkin made the biggest gains, and had the biggest edge, i want to compare this race to the race four years ago that was won by the democrat ralph northam. and i want to look at where terry mcauliffe under performed ralph northam, did significantly worse than the democrat four years ago. you can see the areas where terry mcauliffe did worse, primarily these red rural counties. not the suburbs here. y

the first execution was in the colonies in jamestown, virginia, in 1608, virginia as a colony and then as a state, and then as a commonwealth, state, virginia has killed more of its prisoners than any other state in the country. but just this year they decided they would never do that again. abolished the death penalty. virginia also passed new legal protections for voting rights, leading the nation in some ways in terms of voting rights.s the past couple of years virginia also raised teachers pz salaries in the past couple of years. they also expanded pre-kindergarten for little kids in the state. they also packaged a popular and enforcement gun reforms, stuff like requiring a background check for gun sales everywhere, not just those that happened at gun stores. virginia within the last couple ouars provided new protections o in law for abortion rights in ia the state and for women to be ape to access contraception. virginia passed a whole slate of justice reforms, including legalizing pot. virginia also expanded medicaid, which means more than 500,000 people in virginia who didn't ha

nice to meet you, virginia. in 2019 democrats won control of the virginia legislature, the house and senate for the first time in 25 years. they also have a democratic governor. they worked on health insurance and protecting voting rights and sending people to jail for pot, all of the stuff they can do something about when they hold power. democrats have been in power in virginia for the past couple years. there are 100 seats in the house of delegates in virginia. of those, democrats hold 55 of those. that's their majority. every single one of those seats in up tomorrow. that means if the republicans are able to slip six seats in the legislature from blue to red, republicans will take back control after democrats just having control for two years. republicans are hoping to stop all of it and presumably roll it back and then some. the vast majority of republican candidates running in virginia are way over on the trump side of the number line. many are running on saying the 2020 election was stolen and they want a

washington to virginia. tyler took a keen interest in what his daughter was reading, recommended that she read as many newspapers as she could find. pope, addison, shakespeare and all the things he read when he was young. he definitely wanted her to develop a fertile mind. his oldest son, robert tyler, who was t born in 1816 had a pretty decent relationship with john tyler. he was a student at william and mary, like hisio father. did well at william and mary. but still a distance between the two of them. a formality almost. probably to thebe fact that the didn't see each other that much while robert was growing up. johnr tyler jr., who was born i 1819or no doubt was the one who took his father's absence the hardest. young johnn eventually became a alcoholic, suffered through a troubled marriage that was largely his doing and really had a lot of trouble both before and after tyler's presidency that john tyler really despaired of. at one point thinking he was going toed end up dead. that they would find out th

virginia's economies been stalled out.going to get it moving in the jobs of the future going to require a whole new approach to k-12 education. these charter schools are going to be innovation charter schools partnering with universities, partnering with employers to make sure we have a curriculum that prepares our kids either for college or careers. this is a real opportunity to make a big step onto change in how we think about k-12 education. maria: 11 factor talk and innovation, technology, giving kids of tools you need. i've watched you in business and that's what it is in business you get the tools you need to execute. tell us what you learned running carlisle or in business, identify growth stories in height can tap into that and take it to richmond? >> where the big opportunities for us is to identify industries that virginia should be incredibly competitive bid and can provide opportunities for outside growth. we think about the opportunity, high-tech logistics and pharmaceuticals in the marine industry we have got

so, how do virginia voters feel? the largest percentage of them, 27% say the debate over how to handle things like vaccines and masks, coronavirus in schools was the single most important factor in their vote for almost as many it is critical race theory, about 25%. and one last tid bit, while some people have known for weeks, maybe months who they would vote for. some decide right before election day about 7% of them are late deciders in any close election like this one how those voters break could be the entire ballgame. stay tune and remember these are early numbers. still gathering info. bret, we'll keep you updated. >> bret: okay. there is a lot of numbers to look into. tell us about the race. shannon thank you. we will check in later. glenn youngkin has come from behind, significantly behind to bring a big challenge to former governor terry mcauliffe. alexandra hough is with the youngkin campaign in chantilly, good evening, alexandra. >> good evening. not a whole lot of official activity going on behind me yet.

to virginia. tyler took 18 interest in what his daughter was reading. recommended all the things he read when he was young. we definitely wanted her to develop a fertile mind. his oldest son, robert tyler was born in 1816 had a pretty decent relationship with john tyler. he was a student at william and mary like his father. did well at william and mary but there is still a distance between the two of them or formality almost. the fact they did not see each other that much will robert was growing up. john tyler junior was born in 1819 no doubt took his father's absence of the hardest. young john, and eventually became an alcoholic, suffered through a troubled marriage that was largely his doing. before and after despaired of that one point thinking he was going to be dead they found that his son and namesake would be dead. with his children, leticia who found it extremely difficult to deal with her husband continuous absences. there is an anecdote from may of 1831 that is particularly telling in th

of virginia.iously saw him underperforming and we someone or performed by 200,000 votes from 2017. voters are engaged much more than we've seen in the past, we saw a record engagement in 2020 as well. with 66% of the electorate participating up from 15% from just four years before. this is an electric that's highly engaged and democrats need to make the case to the american people come we've got a year left before the midterms, certainly wake-up call. >> really focus on education and all the parents that we've seen for all these months, school board meetings upset what their children are being taught what they say is "critical race theory" and other issues that they felt they should have a say and then he really took that and ran with it and that seemed to really push him over the edge and a really big way. what do you say about the democrats who are saying that it was made up that president obama, he said that this was a made up thing, all this critical race theory talk? >> obviously glenn youngk

if we go back to virginia. we get lots of e-mails and messages about our screen there that we went from 97 percent to 95 percent. i and the questions to the decision desk and basically the expected vote number as an estimate and the turnouts and some of these areas are greater than expected. we have up on the screen these different numbers and we are saying that they have these, yo just talked about 40 percent an some areas in big numbers that have not been counted and there is lots of questions about how these people are dealing with this and each individual county. >> is that for me? >> i will try to answer it the best way i can. for example, here in loudoun county the estimated number is 99 percent. if we are going through this throughout the night, sometimes it was at 80 percent, and that was just an estimate for what w believe based on the numbers fo the governor's race from four years ago. so that is factored into this equation. when you do get a big turnout, it is hard to know who is doing early vote by

dreams and hopes for a virginia that soars, a virginia that never settles, a virginia where the virginia comes alive. for everyone that calls this virginia home. [ cheers and applause ] together. together. we will change the trajectory of this commonwealth. [ cheers and applause ] friends, we are going to start that transformation on day one . there's no time to waste. our kids can't wait. we work in real people time, not government time. [ applause ] so, on day one, we're going to work. we're going to restore excellence in our schools. [ applause ] we will invest the largest education budget in the history of the commonwealth. we're going to invest in teachers, new facilities, special education. we're going to introduce choice within our public school system. [ applause ] how about that? choice within the public school system. we're going to start with 20 charter schools. and we're going to make a downpayment and close the gap on giving parents an opportunity to select where their kids go to school. friends, we're going to embrace our parents, not ignore them. [ applause ] we're going t

virginia, this is happening here. lot of people engaged. >> we were laughing because on the way out from leesburg we drove d.c. fairfax county blue electorate there. overwhelming voted for biden there were parents, kids, it was like a party. it it was halloween or youngkin. there is enormous amount of energy. you feel it you get a sense have you lived around the area for a long time, bret. i went to school at uva law school. i lived on and off in virginia for almost 25 years. this is different youngkin has run a smart campaign i think. >> bret: that issue of education we were talking about tellerrier with mo and reince. it does cross party lines and hit suburbs and parents who are concerned no matter what party. >> laura: one group democrats couldn't afford to alienate suburban women. critical to election victory in 2020. they were a deficit for trump in 2020. the democrats managed nationally, i think, and in virginia, slowly but surely eroding their majority base among suburban women education, whether you are a mino

senator, i should know, i live in virginia.ou to look at what happened last week in virginia. >> i looked at it as owner of virginia government, the people, rose up, they had a vote of confidence for parents involved in education of their children. a vote of confidence in law enforcement officers, and they also had a vote of confidence in free people and free enterprise, running their own lives. they were saying in effect to government, stop meddling, let us own our own lives, you focused on what you are supposed to do,. they wanted virginia to be more competitive fortunes and jobs -- fortune opportunitieses and jobs and lower taxes. and our team, led by glenn youngkin had a positive constructive idea on removing tax on groceries, reducing cost on gasoline, other side wanted to raise electricity prices taxes, everything. and i think that folks stood up. we're talking before the show, school boards, never been more attention than school board races than this year, glenn youngkin and the whole ticket, a very first latino elected

in virginia. what's been happening basically is glenn youngkin the republican put up a very big lead here in virginia by rolling up massive margins in republican-friendly areas of the state. and what's been happening over the last hour or so is absentee votes in more democratic-friendly bigger, more democratic-friendly counties have been adding in and chipping into that. the problem for mcauliffe is he's running out of places to make up 84,000 votes. the story of the night here in virginia. we can show it to you. take a look. we'll start right outside washington, d.c. biggest county in virginia. fairfax county here. we knew the democrats were going to win this county. the question tonight was how big would terry mcauliffe win it by? was terry mcauliffe going to get a number like joe biden got here, which was basically 70%, or was glenn youngkin going to make inroads here? was glenn youngkin going to win back some of those suburban voters who left the republican party because of donald trump? glenn

are you in virginia?ifically to make sure i have a family billing on the ground. kennedy: wonderful. let's talk about 2022. democrats have a narrow margin right now. the country is experiencing several crises at once. some of them have been because of democrats manufacture. others just really bad luck. let's say republicans when the house next year. let's say you were one of those republicans, what does it mean for president biden's agenda and would you be willing to work with him on certain things? >> first of all, i'll work with anybody who puts the interest of the american people first. barnard but here is what's going to happen, we will put breaks on this socialism. first, when i am hearing is inflation is killing everybody so people have difficulty filling up the gas tank and for buying groceries on the same day. i spent 120 bucks on my ford f1 50, it's unacceptable. we will make sure to close the border, 194,000 illegal immigrants entering the country last year, that's three times the size of the la

brian: people of virginia at this point in time to be about virginia. in the end now they all lose. they go down with mcauliffe. and actually president obama worked in new jersey and, man, that didn't help. ainsley: also about the issues. down in virginia so worried about what's happening in their schools. i think this is a referendum on biden and on progressive movement and on crt. i think that all these suburban parents are speaking out. they're getting involved for the first time. these are parents that never really were involved in school board issues. not involved in politics at all. and they might have voted one party or the other based on their families, but this was about the issues. steve: right. and for the parents who lived through the pandemic where the kids were at home, they looked over their shoulders for a year and they said okay, wait a minute, what are you learning? and then they say hey, what are you teaching them? and it's like we are not teaching them that. they said i saw it with my own two eyes. according to the exit polling in vi

it was not as in virginia. and that was in minneapolis, check texas and seattle and oneg that i will say is that republicans do listen, we do hear you. we know the places in which we can improve, and we make this promise to you. there will soon be a parents bill of rights. it doesn't matter about your wealth, the color of your skin, once you have a child, it is no longer what you become. it is now an opportunity for children will have. we have a right to know and to participate. education is the great equalizer. we are all created equal. and we are going to make sure that we make that happen across this country. for that, let's open up the question. [inaudible question] >> i guess i cannot be surprised the morning after republicans would across the nation. the media wants to try to find an issue. when more people joining it based upon policy. the nice think when you see the last 10 months and people were open to finding something much better to happen under a new republican majority. but i don't think that afte

i said this before and wrote it in my piece for fox, whether mcauliffe lost virginia or won virginia, if you win, by a very tight margin and either party knows this it is a red flag. there is an alarm that goes out and you've got to say what did we do wrong, what can we do better, how do we not repeat this and that is the same thing going on in new jersey. in new jersey we have middlesex, s6, bergen have votes coming in, they still have mail in votes that come in and all of that does typically lean democratic and i think we take murphy over that 2000 point spread into go higher but again, not as high as we would like to see like a 9% lead like he had going into this election. >> what a when it would be for the gop of jack ciattarelli can pull this one off not just because he is a dynamic personality but because it says a lot about what people in the garden state think about the job phil murphy is done and maybe more broadly the job president biden has done. do you think the executive in washington has been a drag on races like we've seen in new jersey and virginia my reading too much

virginia state legislature. other january 6th people got elected as republicans in washington, new jersey, braen tree, massachusetts, and elsewhere. as the former president himself tries to shield his white house records so they won't be handed over to the investigation into the january 6th attack, today we got word there is a heavy hitting new addition to the legal team representing the committee that's carrying out that investigation. mary mccord is the former chief of the national security division at the u.s. justice department. as trump mounts this fight with the investigation to try to stop his white house records from being handed over to them, mary mccord has just joined the legal team for the investigation, for the january 6th investigating committee. and i don't know how the former president feels about that but i would not want to be on the other side of her in a case like this. they're still going for it, though. today in wisconsin, a pro-trump sheriff called for the arrest and for criminal charges t

let's go to virginia now. give us the port mortem on the trends that stuck out to you in the commonwealth, and what happened that led to such a swing from what we saw in 2020? this is a state that you correct me if i'm wrong, joe biden won it by double digits? >> ten points. and we've been talking for years about there's been a long-term trend in virginia going from a red state once upon a time to a swing state. after 2020 we said this is just a blue state now. it's moved too far away from the republican party. so what happened last night? well, let's start in the area that more than any other area in virginia had moved away from the republican party in the age of donald trump. that is northern virginia. the suburbs of washington d.c. here. densely populated. the biggest population center in the state. here's what i mean by how you're seeing loudoun county how it went last night. mcauliffe wins by ten. okay. the democrat won it. republicans were ecstatic to see this number. look how it turned last year. this w

as much as virginia has become blue, there is a sort of fundamental conservatism embedded in virginia work together and terry mcauliffe is a good man and i don't know if he made the case as to how he was in the first term and he spent too much time talking about donald trump. >> john kasich, as usual, thanks very much. >> okay, wolf. thanks very much. >>> just ahead, what parents need to know right now about the newe new eligibility of pfizer's covid vaccine and why health experts are urging them to get their young kids vaccinated. sc. if you're committed to earning your degree, we're committed to making it accessible. because we believe everybody deserves a chance. and sometimes one chance is all it takes to change everything. see what scholarship opportunities you may qualify for at phoenix.edu ♪ ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ bipolar depression. it made me feel like i was trapped in a fog. this is art inspired by real stories of people living with bipolar

do not come to virginia. i do not want you here and yet trump has repeatedly told him he's a nice guy and repeatedly told trump voters to go out and vote for him. i can't remember someone who has pushed him away and still gives him a hug. >> the big question for reap dance is this a road map that other republicans can snol two big differences, glenn youngkin is worth $440 million. he can self-fund if donald trump wants to block and back an opponent and virginia is different than many other states. very few states where the swing is so heavily in favor of democrats, and it's almost like the perfect candidate at the perfect moment at the perfect time and even so may not quite pull it off tonight. >> and yet trump has stayed -- >> because -- if donald trump ran again in 2024, of course he would want a republican governor in virginia. >> strategy. god forbid. >> everybody stay with us and stay with us tonight, too, please, as we cover election night in america. our special live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. easter