Terry McCullough faces the music in Virginia encounters by playing the race card.

Joe Manchin puts a stake through the heart of Joe Biden's build back better plan,

and Joe Biden falls asleep during a climate change conference.

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And the polls are extremely close in Virginia. According to the 538 polling average, Glenn

Yonkin is up about one point on Terry McCalloff. Now, there's the possibility that McAuliffe, if the

election is that close on Election Day wins, because of the early voting, McCalliff was still

ahead. But if there is a surge for Yonkin, which it seems like there is, because just a few weeks ago, McCallof was up pretty big. If you go back to the beginning of October, the poll average had McCallough up three. If you go back further than that, if you go back to August, McCallif was up eight. Yonken has slowly but steadily closed the gap and he finally overtook him last week or so. Okay, because of that, Yonkin, I think, is going to get better turnout. If I have to put money on it today, I say that Yonkin wins. And there are some early indicators that that is in fact the case. So, for example, last night in Virginia Beach, McCollough had to cancel an event, presumably because nobody was actually going to show up. According to 13NewsNow.com, Election Day is approaching, and both candidates running for governor want to make sure people are getting out to vote. Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McCollough were both initially scheduled to hold events in Virginia Beach on November 1st. But a spokesperson for McCallof said he would no longer be having one in Hampton Roads. Instead, he was going to be campaigning in a different portion of the state.

The reason being, more people were going to show up for Yonkin than McAuliffe, and it was going to look really bad. Now, what the media are trying to do is find anyone, anyone, in a Yonkin crowd who looks like a racist, because they must categorize everybody voting for Yonkin as a racist. This is the closing pitch. See, the thing is this. People are not enthused about McCalloff. No one is enthused about McCalloff. And Democratic votes are largely predicated on heavy black turnout these days. Ever since 2012, Democrats have basically hoped to replicate the Obama coalition, both nationally and in the states. And the idea there is if you get outsized black turnout and you get sort of normal turnout from everybody else, then you'll win elections. Because that's what Barack Obama did in 2012. If Barack Obama did not have outsized turnout in places like Ohio in 2012, he does not win the election. So in 2020, Joe Biden got extremely heavy black turnout. And it turned out very well for him. As a percentage of the population,

a percentage of the population, blacks outvoted their percentage of the population again in 2020.

But in 2021, 2022, there doesn't seem to be quite as much enthusiasm from black voters to get

out there and vote. And so Democrats are trying desperately to get black voters out there

to vote. And the way that they are doing this is by claiming over and over and over again that Glenn Youngkin is racist. And the media are complicit in all of this, of course, because this is what they do. And so there was a picture that was flying around the internet last night of a guy at a Yonken rally who apparently had like a brand new jean jacket with a Confederate flag sewn on the back of it.

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