I think the problem Democrats have is that they view everybody as their subgroup.

And they're not very precise about what the subgroups are.

So you are Latino.

You are black.

And if you're part of a subgroup, they've stopped even trying to persuade you anymore.

Welcome to the Lost Debate Special Election Edition.

I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Corey Bradford.

Corey, a lot of elections to unpack last night. Where were we going to start? It was a busy night.

We're going to start things off in Virginia. Republican Glenn Yonkin is projected to win the race for

governor of Virginia after a heated campaign. This was a huge upset for the Democrats. They kind of thought

they had this one in the bag. The polling data was showing it was getting kind of close towards

to Ian. And it looks like Glenn Yonkin, the Republican nominee, really pulled things off right now.

50.7% or roughly pretty much everybody's calling it for Yonkin. I mean, this was a huge upset. I mean,

is this related to Biden's performance as president? Because that's what a lot of people are

going to reduce this to. Well, full disclosure for our audience, I was very involved in 2017

elections in Virginia, and I founded this organization and ran it that provided a ton of staffing

support and donations to

Virginia Democrats. So I've been in the middle of this. And so I was part of that last wave

Democrats won. And this time I'm watching mostly as a spectator. And I think that this is a super

important national story. And I know Democrats around the country are

going to try to minimize this, but it's impossible to minimize such a huge swing, Corey. I think

there has to be soul searching after this. Absolutely. I mean, Democrats have won the gubernatorial

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