The McAuliffe disaster continues

Each day, Terry McAuliffe makes a different set of mistakes. Today, "McAuliffe praised his state's education system" while omitting the fact that 4 of his 5 children "went to private high schools." You can't make this stuff up. Thanks to McAuliffe's gaffe-filled campaign, we don't have to. He's a real-life disaster machine, a younger version of Joe Biden without the cognitive issues.

This morning on Meet the Press, McAuliffe said "We have a great school system in Virginia. Dorothy and I have raised our five children" while he "slammed Youngkin's positions on education. While this may be true, four out of McAuliffe's five children went to private high schools."

Hasn't anyone told McAuliffe that they invented Google and other search engines years ago? This type of mistake is unforgivable. People will notice. Further, Virginians' problems isn't as much with Virginia's public schools, though that's certainly part of the problem, it's with the school boards and the teachers' unions.

Of course, the disaster that everyone still talks about is McAuliffe telling the final debate audience that parents shouldn't have a say in their children's educations:

Since that point, Glenn Youngkin has surged ahead. Since then, he hasn't looked back. If he gets the Election Day turnout that's expected, he'll win handily.

One major area of debate between McAuliffe and Youngkin has been whether or not parents should have a right to influence what students learn at public schools. McAuliffe has been a staunch proponent of the idea that this should be left to experts and not parents.

Parents are fed up with 'experts' telling them what to do. The Education Establishment is especially reviled, especially after covering-up the rape of a freshman girl in a girl's bathroom by supposedly 'gender-fluid' boy wearing a skirt. Since that story broke, parents have been on the proverbial warpath against school boards. There's no reason to trust these people, especially when the school boards had the father of that freshman, Scott Smith, arrested at a school board meeting. Fair or not, Terry McAuliffe is the figurehead at these school boards. That's why McAuliffe is trailing in more polls day-by-day:

As I teased in a piece earlier today about how badly Democrat Terry McAuliffe is flailing in his quest to once more be the governor of Virginia, there has most certainly been a shift in who has an edge in the polls when it comes to McAuliffe and his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin. Guy has written about two polls showing Youngkin with a lead, a Fox News poll and a co/efficient poll. Both had McAuliffe up in previous months. But, there are even more polls. 

On Friday, a Big Data Poll from Richard Baris found Youngkin with a lead of 49.5 percent to McAuliffe's 46.5 percent. Broken down by demographics, Youngkin is ahead with men (56.5 percent), those 45-64 years old (52.9 percent) and those 65 and older (52.5 percent). He's ahead with white likely voters by nearly 20 points (58.1 percent to McAuliffe's 38.9 percent) and by Hispanic ones as well (53.1 percent). He's also ahead with Independents by double digits (53.6 percent to McAuliffe's 36.2 percent).

 There was a rumor that the McAuliffe campaign would attempt to extend voting by 5 days. I don't know if they were serious. What I'm certain of, though, is that this would just make Youngkin's final margin bigger.