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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode 37: A Parent-Led Rebellion with Ian Prior and Corey DeAngelis

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What was behind this parent-led revolution? And what does it mean for the midterms? Lisa gets those answers from Ian Prior, the Executive Director for Fight for Schools, and Corey DeAngelis, the National Director of Research for the American Federation for Children.

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0:00.0

Up next, the truth of Lisa Booth are the Gingrich 360 Network.

0:04.5

Welcome back to the truth with Lisa Booth education. That's the topic this week.

0:12.1

You know, we all witnessed how education came to the forefront of the Virginia

0:17.0

gubernatorial race between Democrat Terry McCallif and Glenn Youngkin.

0:21.6

And ironically, education is an issue that both launched and ended Terry McCallif's candidacy.

0:29.2

McCallif launched his campaign outside of an elementary school in Richmond, Virginia,

0:33.3

last December. In September, education voters actually favored him by 33 points.

0:40.8

However, that all changed when this happened during one of the debates.

0:45.4

I'm not going to let parents come into schools and actually take full time to make their own decision.

0:51.2

You've been told it. So yeah, I've just stopped the bill that I don't think parents should

0:56.1

be telling schools what they should teach. So that right there, that's what ended his campaign.

1:03.9

So you go from September to November and there was a 42 point swing on the issue of education

1:10.4

for voters that, you know, this was the issue. That was their issue. So they 42 points swing

1:16.8

from supporting Terry McCallif by 33 points in September to heading into the election.

1:22.7

They favored Youngkin by nine points. In politics, my friends, 42 points is insane.

1:28.6

But what Youngkin did was he let parents first revolution and he rode that wave to victory.

1:35.2

You will get exit pulling almost a quarter of voters said education was the most important issue to

1:39.7

them. A majority of those voters picked Glenn Youngkin. Exit pulling also found that voters who

1:45.3

believe parents should have a lot of say what their children were being taught overwhelmingly went

1:51.2

for Youngkin, 77% to 22%. So what was behind this parents led revolution? What does it mean for

1:59.5

the midterms coming up and what does it mean for public schools? I get into all of it with Ian

2:05.7

prior, the executive director for fight for schools. He is also a former senior official in the Trump

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