Terry McAuliffe's comment 'not to let parents' choose curriculum was his 'Deplorables' moment: McDowell
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"The Five" ripped Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe for saying he won't allow parents to make decisions as to how their children are educated in Virginia schools.
McDowell, who hails from Campbell County in southside Virginia, said that education in the Commonwealth is not a left-or-right issue.
"This might be the Basket of Deplorable’s moment for Terry McAuliffe," she said – in reference to how Hillary Clinton ultimately turned off a swath of voters by proclaiming during a 2016 event in New York that many of Donald Trump's supporters belong in a "Basket of Deplorables".
"I'm from the side [of Virginia] that is all-red," McDowell said. "[But] this is not a Democrat versus Republican issue. It is not left versus right. It’s all [about] parents."