Welcome back to the Lincoln Project.

I'm your host, Reed Gaelin.

Today, I'm joined by fellow Lincoln Project co-founder, host of LP TVs The Breakdown,

and author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, a number one New York Times best seller.

Rick Wilson, Rick, welcome back.

Hey, man, great to be back on the podcast.

So Rick, I want to talk a little bit about the infrastructure bill passing and what that

meant, A, for the country, but B, the sort of firestorm that it set off within the Republican

Party.

And it was a bipartisan bill.

We should remind everybody that.

But first, I want to talk a little bit about the aftermath of the elections in Virginia,

New Jersey for Governor, but also some other interesting elections that were out there.

So Rick, it's been a little over a week since Election Day, where in Virginia elections,

Republican, Canada, Glenn, Yunk, and defeated Democrat and former Governor Terry McCollough.

He won by a little bit over two points in a state that Biden, when last year, by 10.

The exit polls revealed that about a third of Virginia voters cited the economy, others

were taxes, COVID-19, and abortion.

But the issue that seemed to be the deciding factor was education, which about a quarter

of voters said that was the most important, which I had heard anecdotally, and I think

obviously was pretty clear.

But you know, it was interesting because, you know, in the wake of that, and what appeared

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