{"id":926293,"date":"2021-10-26T21:58:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T01:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=926293"},"modified":"2021-10-26T21:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T01:58:50","slug":"if-he-loses-it-will-be-seen-as-a-political-earthquake-brit-hume-says-democrat-terry-mcauliffe-is-a-candidate-running-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-he-loses-it-will-be-seen-as-a-political-earthquake-brit-hume-says-democrat-terry-mcauliffe-is-a-candidate-running-scared\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If He Loses It Will Be Seen As A Political Earthquake\u2019: Brit Hume Says Democrat Terry McAuliffe Is \u2018A Candidate Running Scared\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-he-loses-it-will-be-seen-as-a-political-earthquake-brit-hume-says-democrat-terry-mcauliffe-is-a-candidate-running-scared%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=926293&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said Tuesday that if Democrat Terry McAuliffe loses the gubernatorial contest to challenger Glenn Youngkin, \u201cit will be seen as a political earthquake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[McAuliffe] has made up all kinds of wild numbers about the COVID presence in the state of Virginia, in the schools, he\u2019s been slapped down with four Pinocchios from The Washington Post left-leaning fact-checkers. This is a man in trouble and that is why we are seeing all these characters rolling into the campaign for him,\u201d Hume told Fox News\u2019 \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia and leading Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/13\/terry-mcauliffe-glenn-youngkin-close-race-vaccine-economy-driving-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">locked in a tight contest<\/a> in the Virginia gubernatorial race that has focused on the coronavirus vaccine, the economy and education <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/07\/virginia-abortion-mcauliffe-youngkin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: As Virginia Governor Race Draws To A Close, McAuliffe Will Not Name One Abortion Restriction He Supports)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he loses, if Terry McAuliffe loses, it will be seen as a political earthquake, and if the Democrats weren\u2019t already worried about what\u2019s gonna happen to them in 2022, they will be terrified if that comes about. Look, the fact that the race is even close at all, and it is very close indeed from the polling and, ought to be terrifying to Democrats that they are on the wrong course and need to change. Doubt they will but that ought to be the message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsider this, it was only a few short weeks ago that he was complaining that Joe Biden\u2019s unpopularity and his low approval rating was dragging his, that is to say McAuliffe\u2019s campaign down. And tonight, there he is, Biden with him in Virginia. This is a candidate running scared, very scared and with good reason,\u201d Hume said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow as you point out, solidly blue Virginia, when this year began and this guy Glenn Youngkin \u2026. a very successful businessman but a political novice. He\u2019s run a disciplined campaign and McAuliffe has made one blunder after another, not the least of which was his assertion&nbsp; in a public meeting just a few weeks ago that he didn\u2019t want parents telling the school board what to teach the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In late September, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McAuliffe publicly proclaimed,<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that is a widely shared view in the Democratic Party but not widely shared across the body politic as a whole. Independents don\u2019t like it and Republicans obviously don\u2019t like it either. It was as big a political blunder as I think I\u2019ve seen in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he is worried, he is scared, and the presence of the president there is only a recent manifestation of that.\u201d<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/13\/terry-mcauliffe-glenn-youngkin-close-race-vaccine-economy-driving-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: McAuliffe And Youngkin Locked In Close Race, Vaccine And Economy Are Driving Issues)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7308269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7308269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin greets supporters in Virginia Beach on Oct. 25, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hume said that Youngkin has made the parents\u2019 battle with the school boards has been central to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a phenomenon that I\u2019ve seen happen in races through the years that a candidate who is sort of behind and doing the best he can suddenly hits on an issue that resonates with voters in a way that moves the needle,\u201d the journalist recalled, noting that \u201cthis education issue \u2026 with all these restrictions with our kids going to school\u201d combined with the \u201cpain and suffering\u201d that has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic \u201chas hit a nerve. And he has pounded it and pounded it hard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said Tuesday that if Democrat Terry McAuliffe loses the gubernatorial contest to challenger Glenn Youngkin, \u201cit will be seen as a political earthquake.\u201dWATCH:\u201c[McAuliffe] &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}